Onsite Industrialization Manager

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About the role

  • Industrialization Manager leading a multicultural engineering team at GKN Aerospace. Driving innovation in military aerospace platforms with a focus on manufacturing excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
  • Develop technical solutions to complex problems.
  • Delivery of a manufacturing system that fulfills all stakeholder requirements including; Safety, Quality, Producibility & Business case.
  • Lead engineering teams to deliver measurable, metrics driven results in line with Operational and Program goals.
  • Deliver class leading engineering solutions to complex problems.
  • Develop, deploy and maintain functional engineering standards.
  • Develop and deliver manufacturing engineering training strategy for the business.
  • Lead capability & career development of the engineering team.
  • Build a culture of process control, Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) mind-set in the manufacturing engineering team.
  • Responsible for the implementation of tooling and or production planning, from original concept through to production.
  • Design these processes with a high degree of process capability utilizing the GKN standard ZDM tool suite to demonstrate as such.
  • Accountable for product development, new product quotes, tool fabrication quotes, first article development, configuration changes that involve cost estimation, schedule coordination, build process definition, and implementation.
  • Maintain positive, team relationships with internal and external customers, as well as co-workers.
  • Continuously improve production processes by implementing Lean initiatives.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing industrialization within a highly technical, low volume mechanical manufacturing industry.
  • Experience in leading multicultural teams.
  • Technical expertise in Manufacturing Engineering, with a professional qualification / background (bachelor/university degree) in engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical).
  • Experience of managing New Product / Process introduction (industrialization) & existing production process improvements.
  • Ability to influence people, build trust and establish effective working relationships within a global organization.
  • Working knowledge of LEAN processes and practices.
  • Working knowledge of quality system models such as ISO9000, AS9100, or D1-9000.
  • Fluent in English language, both written and spoken.

Benefits

  • A gross salary based on the CAO Metalektro and depending on your experience and qualifications.
  • 42 paid holidays for full-time employment (29 holidays and 13 permanent ADV days).
  • Working conditions according to the CAO Metalektro, including an excellent pension scheme and travel allowance.
  • Profit sharing scheme.
  • A working environment, in which we work together to achieve the best result for our customers.
  • Every opportunity to build on your career and personal development.

Job title

Industrialization Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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