Test Cells Team Leader
2 months ago
Job Title: Test Cells Team Leader
This role is responsible for overseeing the Test, Means and Laboratory team and facilities, utilizing available resources to perform Validation and Verification activities on SEP products. The role will also establish connections with the Test Equipment team in Operations at Pitstone, as well as other similar Engineering V&V teams at other Safran sites.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the Test, Means and Laboratory team, comprising circa 10 permanent engineers, including Senior Engineer work package owners and additional contractor resources / external work packages, as and when required.
- Support the definition and flow down of annual Business Objectives, including monitoring and corrective action to ensure they are achieved.
- Define the overall testing schedule for all SEP programmes, ensuring all Test and V&V activities carried out by the team are effectively communicated, planned for and delivered on time and on cost.
- Manage the EMC, Electronic and Engineering Test Laboratory (Inc. 12 Test cells and Environmental Chambers / Rigs), ensuring they are maintained, calibrated and developed to support current and future products in line with the overall V&V Strategy.
- Ensure agreed staffing and skill levels are achieved and maintained in line with Business needs.
- Ensure the successful delivery of Work Packages for Machine and Drive Systems Test activities, but will also include similar deliverables for Product Support, Operations, etc. from time to time.
- Establish processes specific to the Test activities, and adherence of the team (both internal and external) to those processes.
- Lead the Test and Means function to resolve highly complex and unusual problems.
- Financial Responsibilities for Capital Expenditure (agreed with Validation and Verification Engineering Manager & Tech Audit & Airworthiness Head of Design Organisation to align with Product level roadmaps and Safran allocated budget, and Operational Expenditure (OPEX) budget management for General Equipment Maintenance and Repair of circa £250k annually.
- Ensure the highest value for money in terms of Engineering economic performance.
- Accountable for the technical quality of all deliverables from the Test & Means team.
- Accountable for defining and co-ordinating the resource requirements for the team in terms of staff numbers, equipment and facility requirements as well as tools and methodologies.
- Accountable for developing and maintaining sufficient breadth and depth of technical skills and competency to meet the evolving needs of the Business.
- Accountable for establishing processes specific to test activities, and adherence of the teams within the EMC, Electronics Lab and Test cells (both internal and external resources) to those processes.
Complementary Description:
Accountable for interpreting and executing Engineering related HS&E policies and procedures.
Key Requirements:
- Extensive experience in an appropriate Engineering V&V environment (or a relevant Engineering qualification).
- Extensive experience in Validation and Verification activities and process from development to qualification testing.
- Extensive experience in facility and HSE management in a similar environment (e.g. a Test House).
- Proven people management & leadership skills with significant experience in managing a large group of engineers, or large projects.
- Capability to build credibility with stakeholders and work effectively with multi-discipline teams (Systems & Control, R&T, Product Design, Electromechanical Engineering,, TLS / Manufacturing Engineering), demonstrating the ability to work collaboratively.
- Robust planning skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Sound judgment and strong decision making.
- Change management facilitator.
- Ability to motivate others to deliver high performance.
- Resource management, forecasting & demand management.
- Experience of ISO/IEC 17025 would be advantageous.
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