Senior Transformation Advisor — Manufacturing & Technology in Coventry

Location: Coventry

Job Type: Permanent

Working hours: 36 Hours per week (Fully Flexible Working Week and Hybrid working options available)

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 DOE

Benefits: Vitality Medical, Company Pension, Tusker Car Scheme & Cycle 2 work scheme and more.

The role involves engagements (projects) across all technology departments and industrial sectors, working with manufacturing clients using the MTC structured engagement process to define the current state of manufacturing operations and business performance. This includes the use of relevant assessment and mapping tools to capture opportunities for operational excellence and technology insertion to support the business growth strategy.

As a Senior Advisor, you will carry influence and authority in the organisation. The MTC operates a Matrix style structure with clear reporting lines in place, and you will be supported by your Team Leader. Autonomy is at the heart of all things at the MTC, as such you are expected to self-govern, though this is not without a proportional degree of oversight.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leading large (>800 hrs) projects with manufacturing clients at their site(s) and remotely.
• Taking ownership to ensure work meets customer requirements, is delivered within agreed budgets and timescales.
• Deliver MTC Products & Services programs:

• Manage stakeholders
• Manage your team to identify, explore and share relevant information succinctly
• Ensure a co-ordinated scoping out of potential opportunities, from a relevant range of disciplines, for the deployment of manufacturing best practice and technology application
• Planning for and delivering workshops/sprints, facilitating both MTC & client resources in support of project deliverables
• Evaluating opportunities to define work packages with clear value propositions
• Deliver work packages from the resulting Transformation Roadmap which prepare the business for technology insertion

Person Specification:

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes:

• Good Engineering degree (2:1) and/or relevant experience within Nuclear and Advanced Manufacturing Sectors such as automotive, aerospace and defence.
• Experience in the manufacturing sector as a manufacturing engineer, manufacturing manager and operations manager/director.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience within industry, including leadership and change management roles, in a senior management capacity.
• A passion for enabling and deploying technology into industry.
• Hands-on experience of deploying operation excellence tools and techniques.
• Highly experienced with delivering manufacturing transformation projects.
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills.
• Able and comfortable to perform as a team member or leader, across varying business levels and disciplines.
• Coaching and mentoring junior staff.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload to meet deadlines and resolve conflicting demands.
• Demonstrates and maintains a history of learning and personal development.
• Well-developed problem-solving abilities and strong analytical skills.
• Ability to "think out of the box" and challenge the status quo.
• High level stakeholder management, both internally and externally.
• Commercially and financially astute.
• Excellent decision-making capability.
• Fully computer literate with Microsoft Office 365 tools.
• Independent and driven self-starter.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Desirable Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes:

• Possesses over 20 years of experience across multiple sectors and industries, with a strong focus on Nuclear and Advanced Manufacturing.
• Willing and able to hold and maintain an appropriate level of security clearance.
• Able to absorb a wide range of developments in technology and see how these can add value to the industrial sectors.
• An MBA.

Communications:

The Senior Advisor role is critical in leading and guiding project stakeholders in defining and deploying technology associated with industrial projects. The Senior Advisor must be articulate and demonstrate competent communication and presentation skills.

Innovation:

The Senior Advisor will perform a key role in identifying opportunities for application of manufacturing best practice, processes, methodologies and technologies for the solution of industrial problems.

Interview Process:

Once you submit your application, this will be passed on to our Talent Acquisition team for review. If you are successfully shortlisted, the next steps will be a 2-stage interview process.

Reference and Security Checks:

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.