Senior Advisor - Business Transformation

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.

With engagements (projects) across all technology departments and industrial sectors, the role of the Senior Advisor is to work with manufacturing clients using the MTC structured engagement process, to define the current state of manufacturing operations and business performance. Use of relevant assessment and mapping tools, to capture opportunities for operational excellence and technology insertion to support the business growth strategy.

As a Senior Advisor, you will carry influence and authority in the organisation. MTC operates a Matrix style structure with clear reporting lines in place, and you will be supported by your Team Leader. Autonomy is at the heart of all things at the MTC, as such you are expected to self‑govern, though this is not without a proportional degree of oversight.

Undertake innovative Engineering research work focused primarily on progressing technology/manufacturing readiness levels (TRL7/MRL5), and able to demonstrate industrial project delivery across all TRL and MRLs.

• Leading large (>800 hrs) projects with manufacturing clients at their site(s) and remotely
• Taking ownership to ensure work meets customer requirements, is delivered within agreed budgets and timescales
• Deliver MTC Products & Services programs: managing stakeholders, managing your team to identify, explore and share relevant information succinctly, and ensuring a co‑ordinated scoping out of potential opportunities from a relevant range of disciplines for the deployment of manufacturing best practice and technology application
• Planning for and delivering workshops/sprints, facilitating both MTC & client resources in support of project deliverables
• Through MTC delivery methods processes, evaluating opportunities to define work packages with clear value propositions
• Deliver work packages from the resulting Transformation Roadmap which prepare the business for technology insertion, including: manufacturing and operational best practice; defining capability enhancement; business process re‑engineering for innovation; coaching and mentoring for culture change and leadership; supply chain assessments and development/upscaling
• Train, be approved and function effectively as a Technical Governor on nominated projects
• Contribute to the MTC’s ongoing expectations for innovation and product development, i.e. Internal Projects (IMPs)
• Support the Technology Groups in work packages to develop the technology solutions

[Large Programme Specific] Where required, the role may take additional responsibility to support leadership and carry out a specific functional role within a Technology function or large programme of work within the MTC’s Technology Group or Industrial Sectors.

• Good Engineering degree (2:1) and/or relevant experience within Nuclear and Advanced Manufacturing Sectors such as automotive, aerospace and defence
• Experience in the manufacturing sector as a manufacturing engineer, manufacturing manager and operations manager/director
• Minimum of 10 years of experience within industry, including leadership and change management roles, in a senior management capacity
• Has a balance of both theory and industrial application
• A passion for enabling and deploying technology into industry
• Hands‑on experience of deploying operation excellence tools and techniques
• Highly experienced with delivering manufacturing transformation projects
• Gravitas with strong customer and stakeholder management skills
• Able and comfortable to perform as a team member or leader across varying business levels and disciplines, sharing knowledge, providing guidance and technical advice, and effectively delegating responsibilities while ensuring accountability, fostering collaboration, and driving delivery against strategic objectives
• Coaching and mentoring junior…