Manufacturing Engineering Team Lead

3 weeks ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Thales Full time
Job Description

This is a challenging and rewarding role for a highly skilled Manufacturing Engineering Team Lead to join our team at Thales UK. As the Manufacturing Engineering Team Lead, you will lead the Mechanical Assembly function within IPE Engineering, ensuring the effective application of assembly techniques from concept through to contract close out, in support of the Strategic and Business Plans and costing development.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead a team of Assembly Planning Engineers (Mechanical) to prepare, commit and hold the Assembly Planning Team to schedule and budget.
  • Conduct regular Check-In's and reviews for your team that include development, training and 1-2-1 interviews in line with organization objectives.
  • Manage employee relations issues, discipline, absence, overtime and holidays.
  • Empower & motivate staff (via coaching and mentoring) in order to create a participant environment promoting world class performance levels.
  • Create, develop and maintain effective methodologies for MAIT, utilizing appropriate CAD/CAM technologies and techniques to achieve best cost and quality with short lead times, in accordance with appropriate health and safety legislation.
  • Approve design concepts and drawings for production.
  • Approve and ensure the provision of complete and precise manufacturing instructions detailing how the product is to be manufactured while taking into account cost, quality, method repeatability and adherence to First Article Schedule, ensuring teams completion of MRL and PRR/MRR, APQP.
  • Ensure the provision of accurate Production Bills of Material and formal reconciliations with appropriate lead times which reflect the sequence of manufacture on the organizations MRP system.
  • Manage and co-ordinate departmental resources and project activities to ensure that contract EAC is achieved.
  • Provide shop support services to Operations to resolve assembly and cost related issues for first article and serial production.
  • Ensure good communication exists between IPE, Design, Work and Material Planning, Supplier Management, Programme Management, Quality and other engineering functions.
  • Provide input to the creation of Manufacturing Plan's pre and post contract award, detailing the facilities and plant equipment, Process plans, Training Plan, Tooling plan and Make Vs Buy strategy for the product or programme.
  • Coordinate bid and estimating from Kick off through to CCR & gates to joint approval between Thales ICC & TASUK.

Job Requirements:

  • Typically the jobholder's experience will have been in a Senior Manufacturing Engineering role.
  • The jobholder shall have a high level of knowledge of the following:-
    • Product life cycle phases i.e., feasibility, development/design, manufacture and customer support
    • Industrial engineering including process/material flow and factory layout
    • Costing & estimating development and governance
    • NPI /APQP experience
    • Mechanical assembly processes
    • Awareness of Machine shop processes
    • Manufacturing Work-package Management
    • Financial Awareness and budgetary control
    • Process control
    • Design for Manufacture and Assembly
    • Problem Solving
    • Presentation skills
    • Microsoft Office suite
  • The jobholder shall have a comprehensive knowledge of manufacturing and/or test processes and may specialize in a specific Manufacturing technology of importance to the company.

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