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Manufacturing Manager, Edinburgh

The Manufacturing Manager will be critical to Aquamarine Power delivering on its cost reduction targets while maintaining quality specification, schedule and budget.  Through their fabrication experience, the Manufacturing Manager will provide direct input, and set up suitable systems and processes, to ensure cost-effective and timely completion of all fabrication contracts.  Responsibilities include the suitability of design for manufacture, identification, selection of fabrication contractors, successful management of contracts, and ensuring the successful completion against defined criteria.  The successful candidate will be responsible for preparing Aquamarine Power for scaling up manufacturing operations to meet business plan targets.

Sound good so far? Want to know more?

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

Design

• Working with the design team (both external and internal) to challenge the constructability of the design during all phases of the design from concept to FEED and the detailed design  phase of the project to ensure fit for purpose design and to ensure that the design allows cost-effective and timely manufacture and fabrication.
• Reviews scopes of work to identify key deliverables in terms of design for manufacture and installation, prior to the commencement of detailed design.
• Take a proactive approach to ensure that fabrication safety is incorporated into the design and adopting the principle of inherent safety wherever possible.
• Implement management systems to ensure appropriate consideration of fabrication in all phases of the design process.

Procurement

• Prepare fabrication scopes of work with the engineering team, and review and approve where required.
• Thorough and in-depth understanding of the sequencing of the fabrication process and the project schedule, influence the procurement process to ensure cost, schedule and quality targets are achieved.
• Assist the procurement team and advise on fabrication tender lists, enquiries, quotations and bidding process.
• Advise procurement throughout the tendering process in relation to all aspects of fabrication details.
• With the Management Team, agree and approve selection of fabrication contracts.

Fabrication

• Support the Project Manager throughout the fabrication phase of the project on all aspects of change control and variation documentation.
• Responsibility for the logistics of assembly from multiple fabricators.
• Working closely with the Project Manager and Fabrication Contractor to ensure the fabrication schedule is updated and maintained, and advise on corrective action where potential delays have been identified.
• Optimize all fabrication processes and advise on work opportunities to improve cost, quality and schedule.
• Carry out random inspections to ensure Contractor is fulfilling contractual requirements. Raises and ensures NCRs are closed satisfactorily.
• Audit fabricator performance against contract.
• Review Contractor's procedures and provides comments for incorporation.
• In conjunction with the Quality Manager and on-site Quality Inspectors, witness, monitor and review all aspects of fabrication activities against specification.

Enough about the job.  What about you?

The successful candidate will have the following skills, experience and knowledge:

• Extensive experience managing lump sum fabrication contracts, ideally including project management on behalf of the fabricator and the client
• Extensive on site experience with large steel Fabrication Contractors, including work as a client representative
• Experience of working on site with fabrication in non-steel materials, such as composites
• Experience in lump sum contracts
• Familiar with fabricator quality control and inspection
• Experience working with small, multi-disciplinary teams
• Development of fabrication quality and management systems
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships with Fabrication Contractors
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Structured and disciplined approach to work
• Self-motivated
• Team-working skills
• Experience of scaling up manufacturing operations

And finally, what makes you tick?

• Achieving goals and doing a fantastic job 
• Working as part of an innovative and creative team
• A fast paced and challenging working environment
• Solving problems and making a big difference
• Building good working relationships

Sound like you?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.  We're looking for someone to join us as soon as possible so what are you waiting for?

To apply, please complete the form below and attach your CV and a covering letter telling us why you're the person we're looking for (preferably in PDF but accepted in DOC or DOCX).

We hope to see you at Aquamarine Power very soon. Good luck!

Other stuff you need to know

As Manufacturing Manager you will be based in our head office in Edinburgh but you should expect some travel to our offices in Belfast, Orkney and possibly other locations.

Your salary will be competitive and will reflect your experience.  In addition you will be rewarded with a competitive salary, company share options, pension, private healthcare and bonus plus continued professional development, reflecting the value Aquamarine Power places in its staff and their contribution to the company.

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