Technology Manager (Business Unit Lead) - Metrology & NDT

The Metrology & NDT team are looking for a Technology manager to join them based in Coventry.

• As a Technology Manager, you will be responsible for providing leadership and delivery of a specific function, or the technical delivery of a large programme of work, within part of the MTC’s Technology Group, or Industrial Sectors; see Appendix B for organisational structures and further details of MTC.    
• You will be accountable to the Associate Director for the delivery of your role. You will be expected to work collaboratively with colleagues in the management teams within the Technology Group and Industrial Sectors to deliver the corporate objectives of the MTC and ensure alignment and effective delivery of functional and business unit strategies.

Main Responsibilities:

• Where applicable, you will work with colleagues in the same functional role to deliver the corporate objectives of the MTC and ensure alignment and effective delivery of functional strategies.
• You will be required to collaborate closely with colleagues in the same management team to deliver the objectives of the business unit or large project. This requires an ability to influence people outside your line management in order to drive the best result for the MTC holistically and not just for a small element of the company.
• The role offers the opportunity to work with senior managers to deliver the corporate objectives of MTC and to lead, or contribute to, specific business initiatives or continuous improvement activities.
• On an as required basis, you will work collegiately with all or some of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult network of centres, MTC’s academic partners & Members and appropriate sub-contractors to strengthen our eco-system’s ability to support our clients and stakeholders.
• In delivering the role, you will represent the MTC’s and the role’s interests at all internal and external meetings, as required.
• There is also the need to work with MTC’s Marketing Department to produce case studies and other media that demonstrate the impact that MTC is having, whilst respecting client confidentiality at all times.
• Coaching and mentoring direct reports, and other colleagues as required, is an essential part of your role to support the development of leadership and management capability across the business.
• You will also be responsible for your own and your colleague’s health and safety, pro-actively reporting any concerns, near-misses or accidents.

Person Specification

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience

• You will be a degree-calibre engineer, technologist, scientist or physicist.
• You will have a range of management and leadership skills along with knowledge and experience relating directly to the delivery of this management role.  You will use this to lead the activities you are responsible for and to contribute to broader debates on the tactical direction of the business.
• Able to think strategically.
• Adept at using micro-soft toolset: Word, PowerPoint & Excel.

You will have technical expertise in ultrasonic inspection methods (conventional, phased array, guided waves, EMATs), alongside demonstrable in-depth knowledge of additional NDT techniques, including but not restricted to:

• Electromagnetic based inspection (Eddy current testing)
• Thermographic inspection.
• Radiation based inspection methodologies (2D X-ray, XCT);
• Image based inspection methodologies (visual inspection, hyperspectral imaging).

AND/OR

Demonstrable technical expertise and application of technologies through previous project work. This could include (but is not limited to) tactile measurement technologies (such as CMMs), non-contact 3D point cloud gathering systems (such as structured light scanners, laser line scanners) and surface metrology technologies (such as focus variation, confocal and interferometry). An awareness of how metrology and inspection can support broader Digital Engineering / Industry 4.0 concepts.

• Have a strong reputation for understanding of the breadth of Digital Engineering technologies and their respective manufacturing industrial application.
• Commercially aware
• Excellent communication skills

What we offer you

• Option to buy or sell up to a week’s holiday, plus long service holidays 
• Fully Flexible working offering 
• Wellbeing hub incl. Vitality PMI, access to Wellbeing champions 
• Corporate Discounts e.g. up to 50% selected gyms 
• Financial support for Professional memberships  
• Professional development opportunities 
• Opportunities to join and create clubs/societies  
• Enhanced family leave 
• Group Income Protection 
• Life Assurance  
• Company Pension Scheme and access to pension advice 

Please note we may close this vacancy earlier than the planned expiry date should we receive suitable applications.

For more information, please see the job description attached.