Job description
The Vacancy

We are looking for an Operations Leader to join our Workshop Team based in Coventry.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Operations Leader to set up and eventually manage a new facility, in a fast paced, innovative environment. You’ll be supporting the design set up of the facility, implementing processes and leading a facility team, including, but not limited to apprentices, technicians and Manufacturing Engineers in an R&D facility.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring that the facility operates to the appropriate processes and behaviours in order that performance for Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery meet or exceed agreed targets.

You’re Main Responsibilities will include:
• Ensuring compliance of all appropriate processes and act as a role model for the desirable behaviour.
• Accountability for the facilities team’s health and safety.
• Managing the team’s absence and behaviours to ensure that they meet the expectations of the MTC. Where appropriate this will include performance management.
• Inspiring a culture of continuous improvement and strive to empower your team members to take action to resolve issues independently.
• Be empowered to stop work and tasks, should the behaviour or process be inappropriate or unsafe.
• Overall day-to-day management of the facilities schedule and its performance against commitments for schedule and cost whilst ensuring that quality and safety requirements are maintained.
• Influence the strategic capability requirements for the future development of the facilities machines and people.

Who we’re looking for:

This position will suit an experienced Operations Leader, who has previously set up a new manufacturing facility, or somebody who has managed the process of implementing new machines and is now looking for the opportunity to progress and lead on a new facility set up.

You will also have:
• Significant and proven experience and technical expertise in a manufacturing discipline.
• Experience in managing teams to achieve business objectives.
• An understanding (and experience of implementing and executing) of Lean manufacturing principles within an operational facility.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into a deployed capability installation.
• A high level of technical and quality process knowledge and the ability to apply this knowledge to practical problems.
• Good oral communication skills and confidence in dealing with a range of people, including clients, contractors, designers, directors and plant operators.
• Precise and concise written communication skills
• The ability to lead a team through ambiguous or challenging situations.
• The ability to work under pressure.
• Project management skills such as stakeholder management, organisation, planning, requirement capture etc.

About The MTC

For more information, please see the job description attached.

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe.

The MTC's engineers, scientists and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies.

Established to prove cutting edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas and defence. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.

Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design and training for the skills of the future.

The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.

Reference Checks and Security Checks (where applicable)

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