Description
The role plays a crucial part in leading organisational excellence by implementing processes and methodologies to achieve tangible outcomes in all areas relating to Shielded Room production. You will be acting as the driving force, co-ordinating with colleagues and taking ownership for successful delivery of Shielded Rooms throughout the Company.
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Details
Location
Staplehurst, Kent
Salary
Circa £50k, DOE
Hours
Mon - Fri (8:00-17:00)
Contract
Permanent
Extras
Generous benefits package
About Us
A family run company, Magnetic Shields Limited (MSL) is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of magnetically shielded products and rooms. Our brand new factory unit and Fibre laser with full stock automation more than doubles our production capacity and throughput. This period of expansion is a very exciting time for the company and we are looking to speak to applicants interested in joining us as Project Manager.
Benefits
- Competitive pay rates
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Quarterly staff bonus scheme
- Company sick pay scheme
- Employee referral scheme
- Death in service cover
- Competitive holidays
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- On-site parking
- Training and development
About the Role
The Project Manager will be crucial in driving forward the Shielded Room production, analysising current processes, identifying areas for improvement, implementing continuous improvement and transforming this key area of the business.
Roles & Responsibilities
Includes (but not limited to):
- Liaise with key stakeholders to drive the successful project planning process in all areas connected to Shielded Rooms; responsible for ensuring successful end-to-end Shielded Room delivery from requirements to shipment to customer site
- Develop and own master plan for delivery of all Shielded Rooms
- Monitoring progress and planning of project against key project deliveries and deadlines
- Day-to-day troubleshooting as necessary to identify/resolve key issues
- Identifying and reducing bottlenecks
- Meeting key project delivery deadlines & budgets - Act as the MSL interface for Shielded Room delivery with overseas installation team and their Director, to ensure their installation requirements are met, resolving issues and proactively identifying longer term improvements to processes
- Making a tangible difference to agreed targets through identifying and driving changes/ planned improvements; deliver significant and sustained impact to agreed growth and efficency targets in the Shielded Room part of MSL's operation
- Standardise Shielded Room operational processes and procedures using LEAN principles; using activities such as data recovery, demand analysis, process mapping & improvement, root cause analysis, etc. to assist
- Developing appropriate work instructions, documenting other relevant procedures and ensuring adherence by implementing agreed communications, training and audit procedures
- Develop positive working relationships with internal & external stakeholders to champion continuous improvement within this area
- Ensure all processes comply with ISO:9001 processes & standards
Essential Skills
- Relevant engineering educational background, educated to degree standard or time served equivalent
- Holder of relevant project management qualifications or time served equivalent
- Able to project plan effectively & efficiently to a high standard, using this skill to best align projects with the Company's overall goals & mission
- Acting as a strategic thinker, using critical thinking to make complex decisions about a project plan
- Able to evaluate complex workflows to maximise efficiency
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with key stakeholders, customers & MSL senior leadership towards successful outcomes
- Able to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
- Strong decision maker, able to make choices between different alternatives, solution focused
- High standard of IT literacy, advanced in all MS Office packages (especially Excel, Project)
- Ability to operate MRP systems proficiently
- Excellent attention to detail
- Professional manner & appearance
Desirable Skills
- Experience of leading projects in a matrix organisation
- Continuous improvement experience (5years +) from within transferable background
We acknowledge that the most valuable aspect of business, is the people, and we are looking to recruit the next generation of our workforce!
We will invest in your success, is it time for you to join our team and start your journey?
We will invest in your success, is it time for you to join our team and start your journey?
