Engineering Capability Lead - Carbon Fibre Pilot Line

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.

• 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.

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.

23:59 on Thursday 17th September.

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.