Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Automotive Traction Batteries
Segula Technologies
- Coventry
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaboration with product design to define and optimise product and process, balancing quality, cost and delivery and safety.
- Equipment procurement decisions in conjunction with the purchasing team.
- Installation, commission and prove-out of battery manufacturing processes and equipment.
- Ensuring built-in-quality through robust process design including developing and deploying PFMEAs, control plans and associated shop floor documents
- Achievement of equipment performance targets including technical availability and process quality indices such as CpK.
- Commercial and technical management of equipment vendors
- Installation Site Safety and Management
- Development of individual engineers and teams, with the intent to develop the overall ME team to world-leading standards.
- The role requires collaboration across multiple functions and management of complex internal and external relationships.
- Expertise in automotive assembly or machining facilities (or similar).
- A good understanding of safety processes and proven leadership for delivering safe manufacturing processes and facilities, including DRA, MFMEA, CE/UKCA marking, ergonomics.
- Strong mechanical engineering skills are required particularly in joining techniques such as welding, adhesives and fasteners, and core ME skills such as tolerance stacks, design for manufacturing and statistical process control.
- A working understanding of control systems and associated IT interfaces.
- Demonstrated problem solving capability, including use of problem-solving tools/frameworks such as 6 Sigma.
- Project and people management experience.
- Knowledge of high-speed automation systems, vision systems, robotics and measurement systems is highly desirable.
- Understanding of traction battery manufacturing processes and systems.
- Knowledge and application of lean manufacturing within a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Agile project management experience.
- Permanent and FTC contracts inside IR35
- Highly Competitive Rates plus Benefits
- We are able to sponsor visas foreign applicants.