Overview:
Role: Head of Manufacturing
Location: Leamington Spa – MTC
Job ID: 2024 – 2495
Salary: £85,000 - £95,000
Ricardo’s Performance Products division are seeking a Head of Manufacturing to be responsible for the quality, on-time delivery and costs of our high precision machine shop and assembly teams. Manufacturing components and assembly of niche volume transmissions for the motorsport, automotive and aerospace industries.
The Head of Manufacturing reports to the Operations Director and is part of the site Leadership team.
Key accountabilities
- Managing a large team that includes machine and assembly technicians, inspection, manufacturing engineers, programmers and production control.
- Direct reports include Production Managers for Machining and Assembly, Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Production Control Manager and Maintenance Manager.
- You will lead a strong technical team, executing a highly utilised and skilled workforce to improve performance in all areas of the business, whilst planning for the future introduction of new equipment and business processes/systems.
- Occasional travel to customers, suppliers and other Ricardo sites but primarily the role is internally focused on improving the performance of the business.
- Demonstrable track record of leading large, skilled manufacturing teams to improve the overall performance of the business.
- Leading a team in a machine shop environment, working in a low volume/batch environment.
- Strong people management skills to communicate and motivate team members taking them with you on a journey of improvement.
- Experience in planning and organising, with the ability to implement new processes and tools.
- Strong understanding of business KPIs and improving performance in all areas.
- Working knowledge of continuous improvement tools.
- Champion of specific projects/customers.
- Working knowledge and experience of quality systems for either automotive or aerospace.
- A hands-on approach with your team using your technical knowledge and experience to support problem solving.
- Champion Health and Safety for the Performance Products MTC business.
Preferred skills and experience and knowledge
- Communication and motivating teams.
- Knowledge of machine shop processes.
- Organising large teams.
- Use of tools and systems to plan execution of work.
- Working with peer group to deliver overall business objectives.
- Leading business change, both culture and implementation of new equipment.
Desirable
- Working in a low volume, batch machine shop environment.
- Managing large skilled teams on multiple shifts.
- Close working with customers.
- Worked in both automotive and/or aerospace quality systems.
- Knowledge of turning, prismatic and grinding machining operations.
Working with Ricardo
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Wellbeing and work life balance
Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programs and policies that support individuals including flexible working, careers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance program.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.
Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.