Gregory-Martin International Looking for Manufacturing Engineering Process Leader at Southampton, Hampshire Full Time

Manufacturing Engineering Process Leader – Aerospace/Defence

Salary:  £50K to £60K, plus  excellent benefits including Pension, Gym membership, 26 days holiday, Medical, Dental plus many others

Location – Southampton, Hants

Our client is a highly successful international company and a leading supplier of major civil & military aircraft structures & systems. They offer excellent career progression with continual training and mentoring

The Manufacturing Engineering Process Leader will be responsible for the overarching definition, improvement & governance of the engineering process structure & bill of materials across all value streams. You will be a key position, operating in collaboration with the ME Managers and other relevant functional owners to continually evolve and improve the businesses approach to enable critical business outputs, including but not limited to; Costing (Part & Programme) – Hours & Material, Capacity & Load Planning and Improvement Identification / Planning / Validation.

Qualification/Experience require re role of Manufacturing Engineering Process Leader:

Strong leadership skills including coaching, mentoring and team engagement.

Strong Interpersonal and influencing skills, including stakeholder management.

 Ability to manage multiple complex assignments & priorities and achieve results.

Strong organisational skills with a high attention to detail.

 Ability to challenge the norm to identify opportunities for improvement.

Highly effective problem-solving skills.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

In depth working knowledge of manufacturing engineering process and methodologies within the aviation domain.

Degree in Engineering / Technical discipline or equivalent knowledge and experience.

Proficiency in Microsoft (Word, Excel, etc.)

Strong project management skills.

In-depth knowledge business systems & financial accounting.

Positive approach to challenging situations.

Understanding of how ERP interacts and operates across business functions, including causality and correlation impacts.

Prepared to travel within the UK and overseas to meet the customer and/or our suppliers

Responsibilities re role of Manufacturing Engineering Process Leader:

•             Manage team wellbeing and performance against agreed goals and objectives; accountable for safety, quality, on time delivery, cost and other business metrics as identified/appropriate.

•             Responsible for development, design and governance relating to the generation of engineering process structures and Bills of Material (BoM) across all value streams to ensure a consistent and impactful approach across all business areas.

•             Working on appropriate projects and with complimentary functions including, but not limited to; sourcing, planning, quality, finance and production to identify opportunities within the ERP and business systems to enhance the business operating approach.

•             Development and control of base cost approach within ERP system ensuring the accurate generation of cost, in correlation to financial cost structure and working business approach from an hour, material cost and sub-contracts costs perspectives. Including generation of Standard/Theoretical Contribution Margin for programmes.

•             Development, generation and overall governance of rolled up programme cost metrics as shown in Balanced Scorecard approach & related metric portfolios.

•             Co-ordination and facilitation, on an annual basis, process (time, material, sub-contract & other) improvement targets across all ME areas & programmes in alignment with business requirements.

•             Manage & prioritise, in correlation with the ME Leads, the appropriate process observation / work study / controlled build activities in alignment with business need and opportunity. Considerate of utilising internal and external resource as appropriate.

•             Working across all ME areas with managers and appropriate technical focals to facilitate the appropriate work instructions, guidance documents, review cycles to ensure expectations for controlling all engineering parameters and structures (in ERP & appropriate systems) are defined, understood and monitored as required.

•             Facilitate the advancement of engineering bid approach to utilise engineering structure, bill of material, controlled parameters and parametrises to aid in the optimisation, efficiency and consistency of approach for future work opportunities. Identify technology opportunities to support where appropriate.

•             Lead and/or support bid requirements as appropriate.

•             Working with ME teams to identify opportunities to enhance the approach for creating and updating of engineering processes & BoMs, improving the efficiency of change (e.g. mass update via TIGI) whilst ensuring vigilance on its integrity.

•             Build, maintain and control the glossary of appropriate parameters requiring ME control within EPR. Build team capability from “how to change” (transactions & fields) towards also encompass “why to change” (parameter impact), “what to change to” (how to derive the correct value) & “when to change” (business cycles reviewing parameters). This may also consider development of complimentary processes e.g. standard costing approach.

•             Operate as a gatekeeper and control point for the ingestion of configuration changes (through Teamcenter PLM, or appropriate solution) across all value streams to ensure the impact of change on the engineering structures is undertaken in a controlled & planned approach and advances the improvement in existing process structures & BoMs.

•             Understand customer needs (internal and external), identify resource requirements, resource and/or prioritise workload accordingly, including management of stakeholders.

•             Undertake strategic workforce planning (SWP) & people reviews to ensure team performance, development and capability aligns with business need.

•             Ensure processes contribute to a safe working environment and meet EHS requirements. Actively lead / support EHS projects and pursuits.

Manufacturing Engineering Process Leader – Aerospace/Defence