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Key responsibilities
The primary responsibilities include:
- Owning and optimising supplier relationships, contracts, supply chain operations to meet business objectives. Working in partnership with a broad and international supplier network, to achieve overall cost, time, volume and quality objectives
- Leading the accurate measurement and reporting of product and system Costs of Goods sold and taking a rounded approach to its cost reduction across product range
- Ongoing review, maintenance and optimization of Bill of Materials
- Collaborative activity to deliver value through engineering for manufacture activities including part reduction, re-engineering and alternate supply to minimize cost without compromising performance
- Supporting the design and improvement of jigs and methods for assembly of hardware and system consumables
- Providing technical support and assistance to customers remotely and on-site
- Collaboratively develop standardized test procedures to validate new parts and maintain the quality of existing supply chains
- Supporting the development and implementation of a commercially astute after sales programmes
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Skills required for the role
- Recognised national or international technical qualification in a relevant discipline equivalent to Bachelors Degree level or higher, or sufficient on-the-job/applied evidence and references to convince that equivalent capability is available.
- Demonstrable capability to conduct production engineering activities. Including to test, validate and improve new and existing electro-mechanical product assemblies, composed of multiple interdependent components and sub-assemblies; and their assembly methods and processes through manufacturing.
- Demonstrable capability in supply chain and operations management. Including research and validation of capability, supplier selection and contract negotiation, relationship and operational performance management
- Demonstrable capability to fully document and maintain specifications, drawings and other data that define a product or system, its function, performance and manufacture.
- Project management, analysis and communications capabilities that enables you to successfully manage your projects and tasks to time, cost and quality objectives. Which is also clear, concise and shared openly with the business team to report and manage progress.
Required experience
- Proven self-starter who thrives on driving their work forward.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively at all levels within the business
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to work through problems logically
- Ability to work well under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
- Proficient with 2D and 3D CAD systems to create, modify and output data to appropriate ISO standards and for 3rd party use (eg. 3D Rapid Prototyping, tool & part & jig & fixture manufacture, image rendering etc)
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 Quality Management systems, their use and value within a product engineering environment
- Practical design and engineering workshop skills of suitable proficiency to make working prototypes, create product testing equipment, assemble and modify existing products and systems
Desirable experience
- Sanitation engineering, toilet design and engineering, waste water engineering
- Domestic appliance product design and engineering
- Design for circularity and sustainability. Knowledge of best practice for design, measurement and management.
- Polymer formulation, film blowing, and packaging production
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