Competitive Salary
Excellent Pension Scheme
Flexible Working

Technical Specialist ( Materials Technology)

Salary : £60,000 per annum, DOE
Location MTC Coventry - MTC1127207
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

The Role

The MTC’s mission is to provide its clients with engineering excellence, transforming the capabilities of industrial and government clients, and delivering a positive societal impact. This is achieved through a broad portfolio of innovative projects spanning multiple sectors, utilising advances in manufacturing, mechanical, materials, electrical, and digital technologies.

Main Responsibilities include:

  • Technical Leadership
  • Technical leadership of project and/or work package portfolio up to ~£1m, and of strategic initiatives
  • To provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to other staff while undertaking training to progress your own career development.
  • Demonstrate thought leadership in your field, consistently striving to grow your expertise and MTC’s reputation, and a strong presence in critical thinking, challenging the status-quo, and able to drive quality and delivery of work to a consistently high level.
  • Be a champion in continuous improvement in technical aspects of the MTC’s project delivery capability including technical governance, behaviours, processes, structures, and tools.
  • Technology Management
  • Lead a capability area involving the development of a second level strategy that includes a strategic overview, roadmap, capability building plan, engagement plan, and skills plan. The strategy should identify routes to meeting the challenges identified by the Industrial Sectors’ Roadmaps through innovation.
  • To support the technology manager in the identification of new and novel net shape manufacturing processes for inclusion in projects or the team’s technical strategy.
  • Product Development
  • Lead Proposal development & industrial engagement​
  • Lead bid submissions to deliver CRD bids that support the development of products
  • Co-ordinate timely proposal delivery to the industrial sectors.
  • Support industrial sectors with technical sales activities.
  • Build long term strategic mutually beneficial relationships with key members, clients, and government stakeholders for CRD opportunities.
  • Support the definition of the standard products and offerings from within the Technology Group.
  • Ensuring active engagement with the industrial sectors to understand future product requirements and support implementation and development plans for emerging products.
  • Develop a pipeline of ideas ahead of relevant funding calls

Person Specification

Knowledge (Specific):

  • Developing and writing collaborative R&D, and industrial proposals.
  • Building and maintaining a strong ideas hopper for future funding opportunities that aligns to the business strategy.
  • Extensive knowledge in one or more of the key capabilities of Materials Technology:
    • HIP
    • Circular Materials
    • Sustainable Feedstocks
  • Experience in technical leadership of large programmes of work
  • Understanding of the challenges in adopting specific technologies in a manufacturing business and their impact on return of investments.
  • Collaborating with internal technical, project management, and business development teams
  • Managing key customer / prospect relationships.
  • Knowledge of the collaborative funding R&D funding landscape and bid management.

 

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.

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