Responsible for all mechanical related engineering activities, meeting specifications, producing detailed drawings, and ensuring engineering best practice for the transformer business. This role plays a pivotal part within the Transformer Engineering Team coordinating the activities for Mechanical Engineering, whilst working closely with Electrical Engineering and all other related functions to support the end-to-end process.
Main Responsibilities
- Responsibility for the day-to-day management and development of the Mechanical Engineering team to understand contract specifications, convert requirements into drawing schemes and issue for procurement, manufacture & test.
- Develop a flexible team capable of supporting the succession and growth plans
- Using project management philosophies, and in conjunction with the Projects team, recognise the weekly delivery requirements, and ensure capabilities and capacity to delivery against them.
- Engage with upstream internal suppliers, including Commercial Operations, and down stream delivery including Supply Chain and Manufacturing and Test.
- Drive best practice and continuous improvement within the team
- Develop the team for succession and talent growth.
- Support the development of and subsequent management and reporting of the engineering budget.
- Develop RoadMap projects to address improvement activities of the business.
- Lead key investigations determining root cause and resulting CAPA actions.
- Support H&S awareness across the site to drive down the number of accidents and near misses.
- Support the manufacturing business for fault finding, and rectifications.
- Ensure the business has the correct tools, software, that are fit for purpose.
- Develop a working environment based on the BRUSH values.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- A degree or HNC background in a Mechanical Engineering related discipline.
Skills
- Detailed understanding of Transformer mechanical engineering
- Ability to work under own initiative creating project plans, milestones and deliver on time in full.
- Ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Have a disciplined and enthusiastic approach, that captures the commitment of others
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Detail oriented with the skill set to resolve problems
- Ability to present data effectively
- Problem solver with a methodical approach and an eye for detail
- Understanding of cost and financial impacts
Knowledge
- Understanding of engineering drawings and manufacturing processes
- Good IT skills in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project
- Knowledge of quality systems
- Working knowledge of business systems
- Lean Manufacturing knowledge
- Detailed understanding of ISO9001:2015
- Understanding of ISO 14001 & OHSAS 18001
Experience
- Experience in a transformer mechanical engineering environment.
About Us
BRUSH Transformers provide agile and adaptive engineering solutions and products, including consultancy services, design, and project management as well as award-winning product technology, to a wide range of projects.
A chosen partner for national and regional power generation and distribution network operators, through innovation and a commitment to delivering solutions that address grid-resilience and drive system change, we support the global drive to net-zero, helping create a future-proof Infrastructure.