Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Plant Facilities Management and Development

• Establish manufacturing systems, procedures, and processes to ensure the plant has the capability to meet customer requirements
• Develop, manage, implement, and validate changes to the current plant, processes & products / manufacturing system (value streams)
• Deliver plant, process and product improvement projects aimed at optimising the plant capability & capacity through the contracting of change with production
• Provide maintenance services to production.  Accountable for PM program and PM schedule
• Provide engineering (equipment and process) support and services including plant & process validation, problem analysis, failure investigation and corrective actions (as agreed with production). 
• Maintain and improve reliability of equipment and facilities (key to productivity and capacity improvement)
• Provide manufacturing and engineering review/approval for engineering change control systems, including developing & maintaining appropriate measurements to monitor key process improvements
• Develop and manage a plant infrastructure plan and programme to ensure all technical aspects of the plant comply with process and EHS requirements
• Develop and manage the site CAPEX programme

Customer/Product Support

• Manage the RFQ process including managing the customer quote system, leading the quote review board which meets daily
• Provide technical and business assessment of customer requirements (including RFQ’s) to determine feasibility supply, including developing samples, prototypes, and commercial production capability
• Leading or participating in problem solving and improvement projects in support of quality investigations

NPI

• Manage the execution of a portfolio of NPI projects, with defined prioritization and communication to internal and external stakeholders. Coordinate team resources appropriately to support the projects.
• Planning, controlling, and executing customer NPI projects from initial idea to commercial production, including all activities to coordinate qualification of the required processes to manufacture and inspect parts. 
• Act as a conduit to understand the customer needs and to translate this into a technical specification that can be used by the plant. This will include supporting the commercial team in customer visits and presentations.

Requirements

• Engineering Degree preferably at master’s level
• Advanced English
• Material Science knowledge– Specifically Nitinol
• Significant experience in a range of technical areas and with people management/project leadership ability. 
• Strong focus on continuous improvement and experience in TPM and Lean manufacturing