Production Technical Manager

Roxel is an Anglo-French Company that designs, develops and manufactures a range of solid propellant rocket motors for use in tactical missiles. Its operations are spread across several sites in the UK and France and it has an annual turnover of about £250M and nearly 1000 staff, with 300 in the UK.

The Production Technical Manager is responsible for providing technical leadership across Roxel’s production and in-service product portfolio, ensuring the continued technical integrity, manufacturability and supportability of products throughout their lifecycle.

Working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Programmes and Supply Chain functions, the role leads the resolution of complex technical challenges affecting production, a leader in the embodiment of robust engineering change management and provides technical leadership for In-Service Surveillance programmes.

The Production Technical Manager acts as a technical authority for products in manufacture, ensuring engineering solutions are technically robust, delivered efficiently and fully compliant with customer, regulatory and business requirements. Operates closely and alongside the Chief Engineer who is accountable for the product technical authority under the authority of the Head of Engineering.

• Provide technical leadership for production products, ensuring rapid resolution of complex engineering challenges affecting manufacturing and product performance.
• Act as the engineering focal point for technical issues arising during manufacture, assembly, integration and product support activities.
• Line management of engineers within the production technical support team (note: at time of writing this job specification represents a new position and as such the Production Technical Manager will initially need to support in the creation and recruitment of the newly formed team).
• Provide technical direction across multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure consistent, high-quality engineering solutions.
• Assist in the development and training of design authorities and contribute to their training plan.
• Support Design Authorities and the Head of Engineering in maintaining the technical integrity of existing products.
• Ensure engineering decisions are appropriately documented, justified and communicated across the business.

• Responsible for leading technical support activities for products throughout manufacture and in-service life.
• Responsible for resolutions of product production non-conformances, technical failures and customer issues, identifying robust corrective and preventative actions.
• Responsible for approving product design related production non-conformances, production process and manufacturing method updates.
• Leading the coordination with appropriate design SMEs and technical authorities required in a production technical support enquiry.
• Provide engineering support to Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain and Programme teams to minimise production disruption and maintain delivery performance.
• Support customer technical queries relating to production and in-service products.

• Lead the engineering support for embodiment of product design production change management activities once pre-production design validation has completed.
• Understand and support product components and materials obsolescence and the timely controlled introduction into production.
• Responsible for leading the technical support and product validation definition for changes to production manufacturing equipment and tooling.
• Support continuous improvement of engineering change processes across the business.

• Responsible for leading the technical delivery of In-Service Surveillance activities and customer technical deliverables.
• Analyse surveillance data and product performance trends to identify technical risks and opportunities for product improvement.
• Develop engineering recommendations to enhance product reliability, safety and lifecycle performance.
• Support customer reviews relating to product performance and service life.

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