Technical Specialist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Consilium Recruit

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The MTC

The MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) is a major success story. One of the UK's most advanced Research & Technology Organisations, championing world leading manufacturing and engineering innovation.


Created in 2011, it represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and has since grown to a team of over 800 spread several facilities covering not only R&D, but also Training, Advanced Manufacturing Management and Factory Design across multiple businesses and sectors.


Working in partnership with Consilium Recruit from launch, we seek career driven and agile talent from industry, academia, and other leading organisations to work in this truly unique centre of excellence.

Benefits - beyond salary, the MTC provides one of the most extensive and progressive benefits packages available, designed to inspire, develop and reward employees to the full including:

  • Fully flexible working including compressed hours, remote working, part-time hours, flexible start and finish times. And career breaks. Tell us what works for you and don't let anything stop you from applying
  • Enhanced Holiday leave with accumulated days plus option to buy & sell
  • Private Health Insurance from Vitality Health
  • Life Insurance
  • Generous Pension Scheme
  • Income Protection in the event of long-term illness or incapacity to work
  • Salary Sacrifice (tax efficient Bike 2 Work plus Car Lease Scheme including competitive on-site EV charging)
  • Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity support
  • Professional subscriptions paid plus access to Leadership Academy
  • Long service recognition plus contribution awards
  • Envious working environment with free parking, excellent public transport links, employee discounts and on-site canteen, plus more
The Role

The Technical Specialist role is a wide ranging role which will deliver technical excellence across a portfolio of projects, provide thought leadership on the delivery of innovative technical solutions in maturing, promising research ideas and into impactful manufacturing capability, as well as play a leadership role in the delivery of innovative project outputs


Duties and responsibilities include:

  • You will own the impact of existing products and developing Value Propositions, to raise the Industrial Sectors' awareness of the existing products and emerging value propositions whose development and impact you lead, and support the Technology Sector and Industrial Sectors in the development of their pipelines and project proposals;
  • To contribute to technical and business strategies by developing specific technical and contribute to multitheme roadmaps that define how technology based value propositions can be developed to meet the manufacturing challenges identified by the Industrial Sectors;
  • Identify collaborative research and development funding opportunities and develop winning proposals to fund the development of the value propositions you lead;
  • Ensure that your colleagues receive the most appropriate technical guidance and governance in the delivery of their project work; Mentor and coach colleagues in an empathetic manner;
  • Provide technical governance as required for all aspects of MTC's proposal and project delivery processes; The Technical Specialist is also likely to take on specific responsibilities as agreed by the Technology Group's management team, including but not exclusive of: Management of specific hardware or software; Assessment of the engineers' and department's technical capabilities and development needs; Development of resourcing options and team competencies.


The Person Ideally working towards professional registration, a chartered professional qualification is desirable.- A high level of industrial experience gained in senior leadership positions, you will have a range of technical leadership skills along with knowledge and experience relating directly to the delivery of this role.

You will use these to lead the activities you are responsible for.- Adept at using Microsoft toolset: Word, PowerPoint & Excel- Strong logical reasoning and analytical skills.- Knowledge of the manufacturing sector and understanding of manufacturing systems and technologies.

- Demonstrate at least 5 years of experience leading simulation, modelling and analytical studies, including one or more of areas, in relation to manufacturing sectors, systems and technologies:
  • Design of Experiments & Statistical Analysis;
  • Discrete Event Simulation;
  • System Dynamics;
  • Agent Based Modelling;
  • Mathematical and Statistical Modelling;
  • Spreadsheet Modelling;
  • Cost Modelling and Estimation;
  • Mathematical Programming and Optimisation (linear / non
- linear optimisation, constraint programming, heuristic optimisation);
  • Kinematic modelling, virtual build simulation / virtual validation and commissioning, 3D modelling;
  • Digital integration such as multimethods or augmented intelligence.

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