Engineering Capability Lead - Carbon Fibre Pilot Line

NCC – Innovating for Industry; Northwich; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Employer pension contribution (up to

Job summary

NCC – Innovating for Industry in Northwich seeks a senior leader to head the development of a carbon fibre pilot line, building the UK's capability in advanced materials manufacturing. You will lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers and technicians, coordinating resources to deliver safe, high-quality experimental programmes, and shaping technologies and processes for a national facility.

The role is predominantly on-site with limited hybrid working, offering a competitive salary plus

Qualifications

• Degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent).
• Experience in pilot plant, chemical processing, materials science or laboratory-based research.
• Demonstrable experience of supervising, coordinating or line managing engineers, technicians or other technical personnel.
• Experience of planning and scheduling technical work involving multiple people, activities and priorities.
• Ability to understand and develop technical requirements, experimental plans, operating procedures and engineering documentation without supervision.
• Experience of working within formal health, safety and environmental requirements e.g. risk assessment, safe systems of work and control of hazards in an engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership for a multidisciplinary team on a new carbon fibre pilot line.
• Coordinate people, equipment and technical resources to deliver safe, efficient and high-quality experimental programmes.
• Lead efforts to ensure safety culture and effective risk management across activities.

Skills

Leadership

Scheduling

Project coordination

Safety culture

Technical writing

Education

Degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering or related discipline

Job description

Northwich based – predominantly on site with limited hybrid working.

Location – co-located at Cygnet Texkimp, Northwich, CW96GG

Salary: £58,341 - £73,057per annum experience dependent, plus up to 12.5% employer pension contribution and private medical insurance.

Help build the future of UK carbon fibre capability

This is a rare opportunity to lead the development of a new carbon fibre pilot line and play a key role in strengthening the UK's capability in advanced materials manufacturing. Joining NCC at an exciting stage of growth, you will help establish a nationally significant facility from the ground up, leading a specialist multidisciplinary team and shaping the technologies, processes and people that will drive future innovation.

To provide day-to-day operational leadership, coordination and work scheduling for a multidisciplinary team of engineers and technicians undertaking research and development activities on a new carbon fibre pilot line.

You will be responsible for ensuring that people, equipment and technical resources are effectively coordinated to deliver safe, efficient and high-quality experimental programmes.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience in pilot plant, chemical processing, materials science or laboratory-based research.
• Demonstrable experience of supervising, coordinating or line managing engineers, technicians or other technical personnel.
• Experience of planning and scheduling technical work involving multiple people, activities and competing priorities.
• Ability to understand and develop technical requirements, experimental plans, operating procedures and engineering documentation without supervision.
• Experience of working within formal health, safety and environmental requirements e.g. risk assessment, safe systems of work and control of hazards in an engineering environment.
• Willingness to promote a positive safety culture and ensure lessons from incidents, near misses and experimental activities are acted upon. Ability to recognise unsafe conditions and intervene when necessary.

Overall Summary

The ideal candidate will combine strong people leadership and practical scheduling capability with sufficient engineering and technical understanding to operate credibly within a carbon fibre R&D environment. You do not necessarily need to be the deepest technical specialist in every aspect of carbon fibre manufacture; however you must be able to understand the work, challenge constructively, allocate resources intelligently and ensure that the team can safely and effectively deliver the pilot-line programme.

Closing date for applications:

23:59 on Thursday 17th September.

What we offer in return

Annual salary reviews, company paid private medical insurance, up to 12.5% employer pension contribution, great people, honorary staff status at the University of Bristol. With a genuine focus on wellbeing, EDI and learning and development this is a chance to continue to build your career in a thriving R&D facility with a bright future.