TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Manufacturing Sector Location: Staffordshire Salary: Six Figure Executive Package Kendall Poole Consulting are proud to represent a market leading iron casting and machining group supplying both the domestic and export markets. Our client undertakes the design, including virtual analysis, of cast iron, produce rapid prototypes and pre-series castings using full production processes, as well as producing serial quantities of fully machined ductile iron castings and sub-assemblies. They combine state of the art laboratory facilities, with world class technical and operational expertise, and a vacancy has arisen for a Technical Director to lead a team of Managers, Lab Technicians and Method Engineers. The Role: Reporting to the MD, the Technical Director is responsible for leading the technical function and devising the strategy to improve processes which include greensand, cold-box and shell core making, electric melting (99% ductile iron), ABB robots, Koyama grinding, internal heat treatment, crack detection and 3D scanning. * Whilst making improvements across the function, implementing new processes and providing an exceptional level of customer service, you will ensure that Technical/Laboratory/Engineering resources and objectives are aligned with strategic plan. * To drive innovation in Metallurgy, you will evolve the NPI process, manage and improve deployment of resources: focus on people and trainin...