Job Title:
Senior Advisor – Business Transformation
Location:
Coventry
Job Type:
Permanent
Working Hours:
36 Hours per week (Fully Flexible Working Week and Hybrid working options available)
Salary:
£60,000 - £70,000 DOE
Benefits:
* Vitality Medical
* Company Pension
* Tusker Car Scheme
* Cycle 2 work scheme and more
The Role
With engagements across all technology departments and industrial sectors, the Senior Advisor works with manufacturing clients using the MTC structured engagement process to define the current state of manufacturing operations and business performance. Relevant assessment and mapping tools capture opportunities for operational excellence and technology insertion to support the business growth strategy.
As a Senior Advisor, you carry influence and authority in the organisation. The MTC operates a matrix style structure with clear reporting lines, and you will be supported by your Team Leader. Autonomy is central; you are expected to self‑govern with proportional oversight.
Undertake innovative Engineering research focused on progressing technology/manufacturing readiness levels (TRL7/MRL5) and demonstrate industrial project delivery across all TRL and MRLs.
Main Responsibilities
* Lead large (>800 hrs) projects with manufacturing clients at their site(s) and remotely.
o Take ownership to ensure work meets customer requirements, is delivered within agreed budgets and timescales.
* Deliver MTC Products & Services programmes: manage stakeholders.
* Manage your team to identify, explore and share relevant information succinctly.
* Coordinate scoping of potential opportunities from relevant disciplines for deployment of manufacturing best practice and technology application.
* Plan and deliver workshops/sprints, facilitating both MTC & client resources to support project deliverables.
* Evaluate opportunities to define work packages with clear value propositions through MTC delivery methods and processes.
* Deliver work packages from the resulting Transformation Roadmap to prepare the business for technology insertion, including:
o Manufacturing and operational best practice
o Defining capability enhancement
o Business process re‑engineering for innovation
o Coaching and mentoring for culture change and leadership
o Supply chain assessments and development/upscaling
* Train, be approved and function effectively as a Technical Governor on nominated projects.
* Contribute to MTC’s ongoing expectations for innovation and product development (Internal Projects/IMPs).
* Support the Technology Groups in work packages to develop technology solutions.
Person Specification
Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes
* Good Engineering degree (2:1) and/or relevant experience within Nuclear and Advanced Manufacturing Sectors such as automotive, aerospace and defence.
* Experience as a manufacturing engineer, manufacturing manager and operations manager/director.
* Minimum of 10 years’ experience within industry, including leadership and change management roles in a senior management capacity.
* Balance of theory and industrial application.
* Passion for enabling and deploying technology into industry.
* Hands‑on experience of deploying operational excellence tools and techniques.
* Highly experienced with delivering manufacturing transformation projects.
* Gravitas with strong customer and stakeholder management skills.
* Comfortable performing as a team member or leader across varying business levels and disciplines, providing guidance, technical advice and delegating responsibilities while ensuring accountability.
* Coaching and mentoring junior staff.
* Ability to organise and prioritise workload to meet deadlines and resolve conflicting demands.
* Experience of creating and/or developing supply chains.
* History of learning and personal development.
* Pervasive communication skills – able to explain technical and manufacturing method concepts to varying audiences.
* Well‑developed problem‑solving and analytical skills using proven methodologies.
* Demonstrable ability to conceptualise new/alternative approaches, develop a programme of work, and package a robust solution.
* Creative thinking and analytical approach, challenging the status quo.
* High‑level stakeholder management, internally and externally, demonstrating credibility and integrity in a customer‑facing role.
* Commercially and financially astute.
* Excellent decision‑making capability, managing multiple concurrent tasks and prioritising effectively.
* Fully computer‑literate with Microsoft Office 365 tools.
* Independent, driven self‑starter and completer‑finisher.
* Excellent presentation and communication skills with technical information appropriate to the audience.
Desirable Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes
* Over 20 years’ experience across multiple sectors and industries, focusing on Nuclear and Advanced Manufacturing, including senior management roles in engineering and manufacturing consultancy.
* Willing and able to hold an appropriate level of security clearance.
* Ability to absorb a wide range of technology developments and identify value to industrial sectors.
* Demonstrated delivery of supply chain strategy, implementation and performance improvements.
* MBA.
Communications
The Senior Advisor role is critical in leading and guiding project stakeholders – the customer, 3rd‑party specialist technology partners and MTC resources – in defining and deploying technology associated with industrial projects.
The Senior Advisor must be articulate, demonstrate competent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable working at all levels in a business, from operators to executive teams.
Innovation
The Senior Advisor will identify opportunities for application of manufacturing best practice, processes, methodologies and technologies to solve industrial problems.
They will propose and lead new capability development projects that align with the Department, Technology Theme, and overall MTC strategy, and explore different routes for project funding (internal, industrial or CR&D funding).
Lead horizon scanning of technologies and new approaches across industrial sectors.
Demonstrate highly developed structured problem‑solving skills and apply them to complex, multi‑dimensional problems.
Interview Process
Once you submit your application, it is passed to our Talent Acquisition team for review. If shortlisted, the next steps are a two‑stage interview process.
Reference and Security Checks
Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references and a level of security clearance checks.
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