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