Operations Technical Support Manager

Operations Technical Support Manager
Pitstone, Tring, Hertfordshire
c.£55,000

Benefits: 8% Bonus, Excellent Pension, 33 (25+8) Days Holiday, Dental, BUPA, EV scheme, Workplace nursery scheme, Midday finish on Fridays, Enhanced family friendly policies, Wellbeing programme, Employee assistance programme including health and finance, Onsite subsidised canteen

Skills: Continuous Improvement, LEAN, Six Sigma, SPC, FMEA, Production Machinery, Tooling, Kaizen, VSM

At Safran Electrical & Power, we recognise that aviation needs to innovate and change in order to protect our environment. We believe that future aircraft power systems will be hybrid-electric or full-electric, which is why we are working to develop and deliver advanced electrical solutions to help decarbonise flight.

The UK Safran Electrical & Power team has expertise in designing and developing electrical systems comprising generators, power conversion, distribution and control, with developing expertise in electric motors for aircraft propulsion.

If you want to help deliver this future, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative people to join our team.

The Role

As Operations Technical Support Manager at Safran Electrical & Power you will support the Operations Transformation Lead and be accountable for implementing strategies to optimize workflow, reduce costs and enhance our overall performance. You will be responsible for managing the operational expenditure for equipment and tooling across our production area in line with budgets and work to identify and reduce, with the aim to eliminate, any single points of failure, across the shopfloor. You will be data driven and use performance metrics and production information to make informed decisions on trends and make execute recommendations for improvements.

• Initiate, develop and execute operational improvement through problem solving and technical innovation
• Lead assigned projects to meet defined targets, timeline and budget
• Ensure technical equipment and machinery are operational and efficient
• Implement and maintain an effective tooling management system
• Make recommendations for OPEX and Capex expenditure and ensure tracking to set budgets
• Provide technical support to the operations team, ensuring that the processes and systems run efficiently
• Communicate effectively with all key stakeholders to ensure appropriate support for technical improvements
• Develop and implement health and safety practices to ensure a risk-free and safe work condition
• Conduct risk assessments to analyse risks and operational hazards and ensure actions are taken
• Lead and coach direct reports (2) to achieve high performance and defined development goals

Desirable Experience

We are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, but we're also keen to help people grow and develop in this role. If you have some or all of the following, we'd love to hear from you:

• Qualifications in mechanical, electronics or production engineering
• Tenacious approach to continuous improvement with proven ability to identify, develop and implement improvements that deliver increased operational performance
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of statistical process control (SPC) , PFMEAs and lean manufacturing
• Excellent knowledge of and a champion of the latest manufacturing techniques
• Good financial understanding with an analytical approach
• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Good communicator (verbal and written) and ability to influence at all levels of the organisation
• Results focused with experience of managing to agreed measures of performance and to tight deadlines

Get involved:

We also have a number of groups and forums onsite that you can get involved with, including Women at Safran, STEM ambassadors, employee forum, charity partnerships and wellbeing programme.

Our Wellbeing Programme in Pitstone aims to place employee wellbeing at the heart of our business, and we integrate it within all that we do. The programme is made up of four wellbeing committees; Healthy Minds, Physical, Social & Financial. Our enhanced family friendly policies re-enforce our commitment to providing a workplace that is both diverse and inclusive.