Senior Advisor - Business Transformation 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.

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.
• Delivering MTC Products & Services programs: managing stakeholders, managing your team to identify, explore and share relevant information succinctly, and ensuring 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 through MTC delivery methods processes.
• Delivering work packages from the resulting Transformation Roadmap which prepare the business for technology insertion, including: manufacturing and operational best practice; defining capability enhancement; business process re-engineering for innovation; coaching and mentoring for culture change and leadership; supply chain assessments and development/upscaling.
• Training, being approved and functioning effectively as a Technical Governor on nominated projects.
• Contributing to the MTC’s ongoing expectations for innovation and product development, i.e. Internal Projects (IMPs).
• Supporting the Technology Groups in work packages to develop the technology solutions.

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 of 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 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.
• Experience of creating and/or developing supply chains.
• Well-developed problem-solving abilities and strong analytical skills.
• Excellent decision-making capability, able to manage multiple concurrent tasks and prioritise effectively.
• Fully computer literate with Microsoft Office 365 tools.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with technical information that is appropriate to the audience.

Desirable Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes:

• 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 – the customer, third-party specialist technology partners and MTC resources – in defining and deploying technology associated with industrial projects. The Senior Advisor must be articulate and demonstrate competent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable working at all levels in a business from operators to executive teams.

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. This includes proposing and leading new capability development projects that align with the Department, Technology Theme, and overall MTC strategy.

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.

About The MTC:

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.