Key Responsibilities include: 

• Managing a team to plan, develop and implement new or retooled facilities from concept design to stable running production.
• Planning, developing and implementation of assembly and test processes and facilities.
• Providing feasibility statements for product development designs to suit manufacturing build requirements.
• Ensuring robust process quality planning including build simulations and FMEAs.
• Supporting virtual build events and physical builds at workshop, assembly plant locations, piloting build and manufacturing plant locations, raising and managing issues where appropriate.
• Evaluating suitability of manufacturing technologies for a wide range of applications – i.e. manual check, 3D laser scan, vision system. 
• Preparing, issuing and evaluating supplier Request for Quotations.
• Developing assembly systems in house and helping define make vs buy opportunities/risks.
• Assembly process & equipment verification at suppliers and at home manufacturing facility.
• Leading new model planning through development of process estimates against study requests.
• Managing technical issues, offering guidance to the team and escalating where appropriate.
• Representing PTME at program meetings at all levels and present, where applicable.
• Co-ordinating the development and submission of departmental responses to studies.
• Achieving equipment targets of all new & modified facilities.