Lead Mechanical Engineer

4 weeks ago


United Kingdom Women's Engineering Society Full time

Description:

We are looking for a Lead Mechanical Engineer to lead a team of Mechanical Engineers and ensure that essential business projects are delivered promptly in line with Company strategy, advising, guiding and supporting the Mechanical Engineering Team.

More about the role

As Lead Mechanical Engineer you will work in partnership with leaders, key stakeholders and the Engineering Team to implement solutions to high engineering standards, both design and technical and in compliance to statutory regulations.

You will provide coaching to your team and across the business, to drive improvements in the Mechanical engineering capability across Victrex. Alongside promoting a culture of continuous improvement within your team; identifying significant improvement opportunities and effectively communicating their benefits to the Senior Leadership Team. You will also be responsible for developing new talent through mentoring programmes and CPD. 

Reporting to the Engineering Manger you will be responsible for maintaining the Mechanical engineering competency standard across Victrex and for generating development plans to ensure the Company can deliver the manufacturing strategy compliantly. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a network of Engineering Subject Matter Expertise across Victrex to ensure the business has the required competencies that can be efficiently accessed. 

As Lead Mechanical Engineer you will be responsible for understanding the business requirements for engineering resources and ensuring that your team has competent resource to deliver the business goals, including recruitment and third-party resourcing. Alongside ensuring compliance with statutory regulations for engineering assets on the Hillhouse site and ensuring that industry best practice is followed, including PSSR, PUWER and LOLER.

Your Experience

Our ideal candidate will have experience of leading a small engineering team preferably in a chemical processing/COMAH regulated industrial environment. In addition to proven experience of successfully leading and delivering significant engineering projects and solutions as well as proven experience of the application of detailed problem solving to resolve complex problems. Knowledge and practical application of continuous improvement methods are also required. 

We are looking for someone with extensive knowledge and the practical application of Mechanical design, Mechanical statutory regulations and all Mechanical related Process safety activities. An Engineering degree or relevant experience and chartership are essential for this role. Ideally you will be Green or Black belt trained. 

About Victrex

Victrex is an innovative world leader in high-performance PEEK (Poly Ether Ether Ketone) and PAEK (Poly Aryl Ether Ketone) polymer solutions focusing on the strategic markets of automotive, aerospace, energy and industrial, electronics and medical. Every day, millions of people use products and applications containing our materials – from smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to energy operations and medical devices.

With over 40 years‘ experience, we are developing world leading solutions with PEEK and PAEK-based polymers and selected semi-finished and finished parts which enable environmental and societal benefit for our customers and our markets and drive value for our shareholders.

Vision and culture

At Victrex we have a clear purpose: to bring transformational and sustainable solutions which address world material challenges every day.

This underpins our core values; passion, innovation and performance which are at the heart of our business.

Our culture is shaped by how we work together, driving for results with a focus on customers, continuous improvement and doing the right thing. Our values, passion, innovation, and performance are at the heart of our business and we value and recognise how every employee plays an important role in enabling us to deliver our growth strategy.

Sustainability is core to our strategy. We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint while supporting society through our sustainable products and making a positive impact on our local communities. In 2022 we were proud to be named as a European Climate Leader by the Financial Times, as well as receiving prestigious accreditation recognition, including EcoVadis Gold rating, inclusion in the Apple clean energy supplier programme and maintaining a long-standing recognition by FTSE Russell in their Green Revenues index, for how our products can support CO 2 reduction.

We are supportive of flexible working at Victrex - so please do talk to us about this.

Job Ref: LME

Start Date: 22/06/2023

Hours: Full Time

Location: Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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