Additive Manufacturing Supervisor

DEEP; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Additive Manufacturing Supervisor, where you will lead a team in producing innovative components for underwater habitats. This role combines leadership with advanced manufacturing processes, ensuring safety and quality in a dynamic environment. You will drive operational excellence, optimize processes, and develop your team's expertise in cutting-edge technology. If you are passionate about innovation and eager to make a significant impact in ocean exploration, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Free Lunch and Breakfast

Performance Related Bonus

Monthly & Quarterly Social Events

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Engineering or Manufacturing or equivalent experience.
• Experience in additive manufacturing or welding environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of additive manufacturing technicians.
• Oversee daily additive manufacturing processes and ensure production schedules are met.

Skills

Team Leadership

Additive Manufacturing

DED-arc Technology

Quality Control

Safety Principles

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in Engineering or Manufacturing

Job description

As the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Supervisor, you will lead a dynamic team of AM Technicians, to drive the production of cutting-edge components for pressure vessels designed for human occupancy. This pivotal role combines leadership, advanced manufacturing processes, and operational excellence to ensure 24/7 production meets the highest standards of safety, quality and efficiency. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on leader with a passion for innovation, a commitment to excellence, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-tech manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Management: Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary team of additive manufacturing technicians and foster a culture of safety, quality, continuous improvement and proactive problem solving.
• Operational Oversight: Oversee daily DED-arc additive manufacturing processes and ensure production schedules are met and collaborate with production planning to secure timely material availability.
• Quality & Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to quality protocols, working with quality control team to maintain product integrity, and collaborate with class societies and internal teams to meet regulatory and industry standards.
• Process Optimisation: Identify and implement enhancements to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and optimise resources whilst also conducting regular safety audits and risk assessments to uphold safety standards.
• Training & Development: Develop and deliver training programs to build team expertise in DED-arc technology and processes.

What You Will Need

• Degree qualified within related field i.e. Engineering, Manufacturing or equivalent experience.
• Previous experience working within additive manufacturing, advanced manufacturing or welding environments.
• Previously led manufacturing or production teams within fast-paced, and dynamic additive manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of DED-arc technology or welding processes is essential.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of quality control & Safety principles and practices in manufacturing.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and standards relevant to industry related manufacturing (ASME, ISO, DNV) is highly desirable.
• Willingness to work flexible hours and shifts to support 24/7 production operations.

What’s In It For You

• Salary: Highly competitive.
• Bonus: Performance related bonus scheme.
• Private Healthcare: Able to add family members at an extra cost.
• Working Hours: Monday to Friday onsite, across variable shift patterns.
• Lunch: Free lunch and breakfast provided onsite alongside snacks.
• Social Events: Monthly & quarterly social events.

Who We Are

DEEP is an international design and engineering company on a mission to make humans aquatic. We’re doing this by advancing ocean exploration through the development of new technologies that will enable humans to live and work in underwater environments for longer periods of time.

95% of the ocean is unexplored. Countless discoveries are waiting to be made, and knowledge gained, that will benefit our planet and all of humanity. The challenge is access, and that’s where DEEP comes in. We’re building subsea human habitats to enable research at depth and increase our understanding of the ocean, so we can help protect it.

Working at DEEP

We’re a team of highly experienced engineering, operations and safety experts, with a funding model that allows us the freedom to think long term and pursue our mission without traditional restraints. We want to drive progress at the forefront of deep-sea innovation and discovery to become stewards of the ocean and reshape our relationship with our planet.

As an organization with multi-generational objectives and ambitious goals, the values we bring to work every day are critical:

• Be Curious: Find a better way and ask why not? Answers are easy, questions are hard – ask original questions and be a curiosity catalyst!
• Be Exceptional: It will take the most intelligent, talented and creative people on the planet working together to achieve DEEP’s mission. Get it done, be relentless in your pursuit of excellence, and demand excellence from everyone.
• Be Fearless: No one has done this on the scale we’re doing it before. Impossible things must be done for the first time. We are the team pushing boundaries!
• Be Good: Cultivate passion and thrive together. Be safe, take intelligent risks, but never compromise the safety of the team – ever!

At DEEP, we celebrate and embrace diversity and inclusion and strongly believe that the best innovations come from diverse perspectives. We invite applicants from all backgrounds to join us in creating technology that makes a meaningful impact on humanity, our oceans and planet.

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