Our client has a number of exciting positions available right now, including a Engineering Manager : Product Validation opening.
Job Summary:
To manage a team of engineers and work with cross:functional integrated program teams to deliver projects and/or project launches.
Job responsibilities:
: Manage daily activities and efficient use of resources to deliver project or program deliverables.
: Near and long:term capacity planning of all workload within the department.
: Support the development of annual department goals and generate implementation plans to deliver against agreed targets.
: Ensures all procedures are documented, adhered to and audited regularly to ensure compliance with accredited bodies.
: Establish physical design metrics to rack engineering quality, department targets and drive productivity improvements.
: Organizational capability development for people, processes and tools.
: Capture of best practices and deployment into departmental standard practices.
: Manage engineering team using the Companys performance management processes and tools.
: Communicate regularly with the team to keep them up:to:date on project status and objectives and departmental and site issues.
: Coaching and mentoring engineering team to drive performance.
: Identify training needs and implement training plan to ensure your team can support the needs of the business and comply with company procedures and processes.
: Idenitfy and implement continuous improvement initiatives in the engineering team.
: Support customer meetings and provide technical input as required.
: Execute and deliver engineering data that meets customer requirements and expectations : cost, weight, schedule and quality.
: Generate team performance KPIs and report regularly to engineering management.
: Build effective working relationships with all other functions at the site and support daily operations.
: Ensure team adhere to Companys health and safety policies and procedures.
Minimum requirements for this position:
: Educated to a degree level, or equivalent, in an engineering discipline.
: Demonstrable technical and operational experience in Aerospace, Automotive or Rail industry.
: Proven leadership abilities with strong technical, team and risk management skills.
: Ability to manage and motivate an engineering department.
: Ability to communicate and build effective relationships with customers and internal departments.
: Proven experience of change management in an engineering organization.
Preferred qualifications for this position:
: Previous experience of using Catia v5 and TeamCenter systems.
: Previous experience of managing remote teams.
: A good understanding of:
* Aircraft interior architecture.
* Awareness of the certification framework within which the work is undertaken.
* Configuration and change management.
: Chartership through an accredited engineering body.
The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed descriptions of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.
