Project Manager Manufacturing - Filtration

Ash Search & Selection ,
Accrington, Lancashire
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum plus benefits

Overview

The Company: Our client is a long established privately owned British multi-national manufacturing Group. The business is headquartered in the UK and manufactures from sites across Europe, North America, Mexico, China and Malaysia The Role: Reporting directly to the Technical Manager, the role will involve a variety of project engineering activity from quotation stage, through to expediting required equipment and validating manufacturing processes prior to implementation in one of the Company’s manufacturing sites in Malaysia. Central to the task will be a requirement to ensure that all work activity is planned, scheduled and completed in accordance with well defined customer expectations. Development of functional specifications for the purchase of equipment, raising Purchase Orders, maintaining project schedules, tracking changes, and assisting in costing at the quotation stage. Development of effective partnerships with equipment suppliers in UK and Europe to ensure product integrity and the achievement of scheduled delivery objectives to Malaysia - actively working to reduce and manage any corrective backlogs that arise. Tracking modifications in order that revised specifications and processes are understood by all stakeholders and complied with. Supervision of post-delivery factory acceptance testing procedures. The Person: Educated to Degree level in an appropriate discipline, you will have gained solid project engineering experience - ideally gained within a filter manufacturing environment; candidates with knowledge of automated filter manufacturing processes would be of especial interest. You will possess a good Engineering background, underpinning your ability to interpret drawings with ease. Knowledge of plastic injection moulding and other automated processes would also be advantageous, though this is not essential. You should possess strong software literacy, and in particular, have a good grasp of the MS Office suite of products including Word, Excel and Power Point as well as MS Projects. Innovative and creative and with excellent communication skills, you must have a keen attention to detail and be comfortable working in an environment of rapidly changing circumstances and design change.