Details:
- Location: Rochester Kent
- Date: 4 weeks ago
Description:
Technical Centre Manager
Key responsibilities
Safety:
* Ensure a safe working environment
* Promote safety culture
Environment:
* Promote environment culture
* Maintain ISO14001 certification
People:
* Develop the team
* Develop high potential candidates for future management positions
* Ensure effective My Core personal business plans for all team
* Develop progression and succession planning
* Ensure team development plans are in place
Quality:
* Promote quality culture
* Define & and deliver best practise for area of responsibility
* Ensure that working practises follow corporate and local procedures
* Maintain IATF 16949 certification
Volume:
* Establish a robust set of daily operational metrics allowing the engineering facilities team to communicate, prioritise work and deliver on time to business requirements
* Deliver the projects
* Publish clear project delivery planning
* On time project delivery
* Develop and realise benefits from synergies team to team and site to site
* Eliminate waste
Cost:
* High focus on utilising our broad skillset to develop and implement best cost development facilities for the FS business
* Deliver the budget
* Identify and deliver continuous improvement opportunities
AUTHORITIES
* Technical centre approvals (via DOA)
What we're looking for
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Essential
* 5+ years experience working in engineering/manufacturing
* Ability to manage a large number of projects/topics in parallel
* Ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
* Experience of managing multi disciplined teams
* Demonstrated leader in operational situations
* Experience of Team management across different sites and countries
* Demonstrated experience working with customers and presenting at Director level
* Ability to work in multi-functional teams (including but not limited to ME, purchasing, business operations) to meet company business objectives
* Understanding of business (budgets, ROI, markets, customers, business forecasts)
* Experience in budget forecast and management
* Available for traveling
* Knowledge of fuel injection systems and products, IC engines and applications