Job title: Manufacturing Digitalisation SPOC
Reference: 51413
Location: Halewood, Merseyside
Duration: Permanent
Start date: ASAP
Salary: £46,587.88 basic pay per annum (inclusive of 35% holiday bonus) plus 33 days holiday per year (25 vacation and 8 bank holidays)
GPW Recruitment are partnering with Ford Halewood Transmissions Ltd (FHTL) in Halewood to recruit a Manufacturing Digitalisation SPOC
Ford Halewood Transmission Limited (FHTL) develops and manufactures transmissions with an employee workforce of circa 700 people. The Plant has a proud 60-year history as a local employer and are dedicated to manufacturing high quality products. Ford are currently investing up to £230 million at the facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles.
The role
You will work alongside the Plant IT team and with the IT Innovation team, to support Halewood transform processes by developing and maintaining new IT tools as well as help their plant adopt proven IT solutions from other plants. There is a catalogue of existing global standard tools, eFPS (electronic Ford Production System) which you will support with the development and deployment of by working with FPS (Ford Production System) teams and Global IT teams. You will also have the opportunity to develop bespoke solutions that address Halewood specific pain points and share these projects with the wider European Digitalisation network where other plants can be inspired by, replicate and give feedback on your project. Your role will be vital to ensure that we have governance in the digital processes, adhering to change management and security protocols.
On Offer as the Manufacturing Digitalisation SPOC
* £46,587.88 basic pay per annum (inclusive of 35% holiday bonus) plus 33 days holiday per year (25 vacation and 8 bank holidays)
* Access to the Employee Development and Assistance Programme
* A unique opportunity to access Ford's Privilege scheme - allowing you to purchase Ford vehicles at a discount
* A great salary increasing yearly, along with a competitive pension scheme
* An excellent work-life balance, including a generous holiday allowance of 25 days (inclusive of set shutdown dates)
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* On site facilities such as a gym, sauna and steam room
Working hours:
Hours: Monday to Thursday 7:00-15:30 and Friday 7:00-12:30
Qualifications and Experience required by the Manufacturing Digitalisation SPOC
• Education: Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Technical Literacy: Understanding of how Digitalisation applies to manufacturing. You should be comfortable discussing data architectures as well as mechanical assembly lines
• Software Literacy: proficient in data pipelines for cloud computing, database understanding, Node Red, prompt engineering
• Experience: Experience in manufacturing operations, specifically implementing digital transformation or Industry 4.0 initiatives
Key Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
• Ford+ Behaviours: Be a role model for Ford+ behaviours, championing a Zero Accident culture and fostering a strong Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ethos within all your endeavours
• FPS digital point of contact: Maintain and deploy system updates associated with FPS, including but not limited to eFPS, IIOT, DWT wrapper, DCC, PCC, BCC dashboard.
• Strategic Roadmap: Working with key stakeholders, develop and execute a comprehensive digital transformation strategy that aligns with our long-term business goals, focusing on efficiency, and waste reduction.
• Data-Driven Optimisation: Work closely with our Data Science and AI team to integrate predictive analytics into the production line.
• Return on Investment (ROI) Tracking: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of digital initiatives. You will be responsible for ensuring that digital investments translate into tangible improvements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary link between the IT department, the data science team, and the plant floor operators to ensure all technical solutions are practical and impactful.
• Governance: In Halewood we have amazing digital tools which have been internally developed, you should create a catalogue and governance around the structure and change management of them.
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC): Be Halewood’s SPOC for digitalisation, representing Halewood in the European forum. You will participate in cross-plant knowledge sharing, helping to implement best practices and scale successful innovations across Ford’s European operations.
• Aptitude to explore: Acknowledge there may be new ways to do things, pro-actively look for better solutions to pilot and communicate business cases clearly. Search pro-actively for new opportunities, bring technology representatives to Halewood and visit external events.
• Plant IT: When workload permits, work with the Plant IT team to help with their operational responsibilities.
• Travelling may be required during the year to attend innovation workshops with the Alliance.
About Ford
Ford Motor Company is a global automotive industry leader that manufactures or distributes vehicles across six continents. With over 200,000 employees and 65 plants worldwide, the UK employ over 13,000 individuals.
The Ford+ plan is transforming the business to align the global organisation into an integrated team to accelerate. This is by focusing on the creation of vehicles revising the customers true demands, reduction of costs, to introduce exciting new technology, enhance quality and improve efficiency.
Future Prospects
The business invests significantly in its employee development.
FHTL supports the onward development and growth of all personnel and has a track record of promoting from within based on performance and achievement.
Proposed start date:
ASAP – Based on personal availability if you accept the offer of employment.
The Company is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of race, religion or belief, sex, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability. This vacancy is advertised in line with the FORD equal opportunities policy.
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