Senior Advisor - Business Transformation

The Vacancy

Job Title: Senior Advisor – Business Transformation

Location: Coventry

Job Type: Permanent

Working hours: 36 Hours per week (Fully Flexible Working Week and Hybrid working options available)

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 DOE

Benefits: Vitality Medical, Company Pension, Tusker Car Scheme & Cycle 2 work scheme and more.

The role

With engagements (projects) across all technology departments and industrial sectors, the role of the Senior Advisor is to work with manufacturing clients using the MTC structured engagement process, to define the current state of manufacturing operations and business performance. Use of relevant assessment and mapping tools, to capture opportunities for operational excellence and technology insertion to support the business growth strategy.

As a Senior Advisor, you will carry influence and authority in the organisation. The MTC operates a Matrix style structure with clear reporting lines in place, and you will be supported by your Team Leader. Autonomy is at the heart of all things at the MTC, as such you are expected to self-govern, though this is not without a proportional degree of oversight.

Undertake innovative Engineering research work focused primarily on progressing technology/manufacturing readiness levels (TRL7/MRL5), and able to demonstrate industrial project delivery across all TRL and MRLs.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leading large (>800 hrs) projects with manufacturing clients at their site(s) and remotely
• Taking ownership to ensure work meets customer requirements, is delivered within agreed budgets and timescales.
• Deliver MTC Products & Services programs:
• Manage stakeholders
• Manage your team to identify, explore and share relevant information succinctly
• Ensure a co-ordinated scoping out of potential opportunities, from a relevant range of disciplines, for the deployment of manufacturing best practice and technology application
• To include planning for and delivering workshops/sprints, facilitating both MTC & client resources in support of project deliverables
  
  
• Through MTC delivery methods processes, evaluating opportunities to define work packages with clear value propositions
• Deliver work packages from the resulting Transformation Roadmap which prepare the business for technology insertion to include:
• Manufacturing and operational best practice
• defining capability enhancement
• business process re-engineering for innovation
• coaching and mentoring for culture change and leadership

supply chain assessments and development/upscaling

Train, be approved and function effectively as a Technical Governor on nominated projects

Contribute to the MTC’s ongoing expectations for innovation and product development, i.e. Internal Projects (aka IMPs)

Support the Technology Groups in work packages to develop the technology solutions

[Large Programme Specific]

Where required, the role may take additional responsibility to support the leadership, and carrying out of, a specific functional role within a Technology function or large program of work within the MTC’s Technology Group or Industrial Sectors.

Person Specification

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes

All aspects of the role are to be carried out as an exemplar within the business in adhering to the MTC values:

• Good Engineering degree, (2:1) and/or relevant experience within Nuclear and Advanced Manufacturing Sectors such as automotive, aerospace and defence.
• Experience in the manufacturing sector as a manufacturing engineer, manufacturing manager and operations manager/director

Well-developed problem-solving abilities (using proven methodologies) and strong analytical skills

Demonstrable ability to conceptualise new/alternative approaches, develop a program of work to satisfy/meet a need(s) and package to form a robust solution/ countermeasure

Ability to "think out of the box", identify and resolve issues using a strongly analytical approach and challenge the status quo

High level stakeholder management, both internally and externally, demonstrating a high degree of credibility and integrity in a customer facing role

Commercially and financially astute

Excellent decision-making capability, able to manage multiple concurrent tasks and prioritize effectively

Fully computer literate with Microsoft Office 365 tools

Independent and driven self-starter and completer-finisher

Excellent presentation and communication skills with technical information that is appropriate to the audience

Desirable Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes:

• Possesses over 20 years of experience across multiple sectors and industries, with a strong focus on Nuclear and Advanced Manufacturing. This includes senior management roles encompassing leadership, strategic change management, and delivery within engineering and manufacturing consultancy environments.

Willing and able to hold and maintain an appropriate level of security clearance

Able to absorb a wide range of developments in technology and see how these can add value to the industrial sectors

Can demonstrate delivery of supply chain strategy, implementation and performance improvements

An MBA

Communications

The Senior Advisor role is critical in leading and guiding project stakeholders i.e. the customer, 3rd party specialist technology partners and MTC resources in defining and deploying technology associated with industrial projects.

The Senior Advisor must be articulate and demonstrate competent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable working at all levels in a business from operators to executive teams.

Innovation

The Senior Advisor will perform a key role in identifying opportunities for application of manufacturing best practice, processes, methodologies and technologies for the solution of industrial problems.

Proposal of and leading new capability development projects that align with the Department, Technology Theme, and overall MTC strategy, and able to explore different routes for project funding (internal, industrial, or CR&D funding).

Leading the horizon scanning of technologies and new approaches to solving industrial problems across a range of industrial sectors

The role holder is expected to demonstrate highly developed structured problem-solving skills and apply these to complex, multi-dimensional problems.

Interview Process

Once you submit your application, this will be passed on to our Talent Acquisition team for review. If you are successfully shortlisted, the next steps will be a 2-stage interview process.

Reference and Security Checks

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.

About The MTC

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe.

The MTC's engineers, scientists and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies.

Established to prove cutting edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas and defence. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.

Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design and training for the skills of the future.

The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.

Reference Checks and Security Checks (where applicable)

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.