Technical Leader

Job Title: Technical Leader

Location: Warwickshire (occasional travel to Halewood)

Salary: £45k - £55k

Job Type: Full Time / Permanent

The Role

To ensure achievement of objectives in terms of scheduling of meetings, optimization of costs and management of the resources involved, making it possible to implement the best technical solutions (in terms of homogeneity, standardization and compliance with requirements). You will manage projects from quoting phase to handover for commissioning. Utilizes planning, resource and task management skills to direct control engineering staff in successful implementation of project assignments.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Estimate the costs of technical solution and resources for pricing of design variants

• Plan project technical activities and staffing (times, costs)

• Coordinate internal/external technical activities and persons involved in the project processes, regulations, etc.) and identify opportunities for standardization

• Provide technical support in the assembly, installation (equipment) and prototyping (product) phases and technical assistance at the customer site

• Coordinate resources for manufacturing/integration/commissioning operations with the Site Manager

• Identify possible areas of improvement

• Interfaces with customer to finalize design requirements, reviews and approvals throughout design phase.

The Candidate

• Knowledge Microsoft Office / CAD design base level

• Strong knowledge of machines and tools / controls. An understanding of mechanical system / controls design.

• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.

• Ability to write technical documents and reports

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret customer specifications, electrical controls schematics, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.

• Ability to train and mentor other Technical Leaders, Automation, Mechanical or Control Engineers.

• Determining how a system or process should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

• Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

• Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

• Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

• Writing computer programs for various purposes.

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.

• Inspecting (field check) equipment in preparation for adding, removing, or modifying existing designs / equipment.