Group Technical Manager - Technical Textiles
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Accrington
- Salary
- plus bonus, car & benefits
- Posted
- 04 Jun 2021
- Closes
- 26 Jun 2021
- Sectors
- Travel & Tourism
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Group Technical Manager - Technical Textiles
The Company:
Our client is a long established privately owned British multi-national manufacturing Group. Headquartered in the UK, the Group manufactures from sites in the UK, North America, Mexico, China and Malaysia.
The Role:
* Reporting directly to the Group MD, the main function of this role will be to serve as the Company's principal technical expertise in the manufacture and application capabilities of a broad portfolio of Technical Textiles, including technical nonwoven needle felt, thermally bonded nonwovens and hydro entangled media, providing technological guidance and support Group-wide and with customers.
* The role will require you to utilise your experience to leverage Group-wide synergies and integration potential and to provide detailed technical input at the initiation stage of new projects and customer-led developments.
* The role will include dotted line responsibility for a small team of subsidiary based technical leads, co-ordinating technical textile advancements Group-wide and providing technical input to Commercial initiatives.
The Person:
* ???A technical textile professional, you will be first degree qualified in an appropriate technical discipline - which might include Polymer Chemistry, Materials Sciences or Engineering, and your practical experience should include hands on exposure to technically agile environments, materials science and a solid exposure to dry and/or liquid filtration.
* Capable of building collaborative relationships with Group technical and commercial teams, you will possess strong commercial acumen, and be able to make a positive impact on external customer relationships.
* Travel will be a feature of the role and you would need to be able to undertake travel in Europe, Asia and North America.
This attractive opportunity represents a high profile role with a genuine opportunity for significant career progression
The Company:
Our client is a long established privately owned British multi-national manufacturing Group. Headquartered in the UK, the Group manufactures from sites in the UK, North America, Mexico, China and Malaysia.
The Role:
* Reporting directly to the Group MD, the main function of this role will be to serve as the Company's principal technical expertise in the manufacture and application capabilities of a broad portfolio of Technical Textiles, including technical nonwoven needle felt, thermally bonded nonwovens and hydro entangled media, providing technological guidance and support Group-wide and with customers.
* The role will require you to utilise your experience to leverage Group-wide synergies and integration potential and to provide detailed technical input at the initiation stage of new projects and customer-led developments.
* The role will include dotted line responsibility for a small team of subsidiary based technical leads, co-ordinating technical textile advancements Group-wide and providing technical input to Commercial initiatives.
The Person:
* ???A technical textile professional, you will be first degree qualified in an appropriate technical discipline - which might include Polymer Chemistry, Materials Sciences or Engineering, and your practical experience should include hands on exposure to technically agile environments, materials science and a solid exposure to dry and/or liquid filtration.
* Capable of building collaborative relationships with Group technical and commercial teams, you will possess strong commercial acumen, and be able to make a positive impact on external customer relationships.
* Travel will be a feature of the role and you would need to be able to undertake travel in Europe, Asia and North America.
This attractive opportunity represents a high profile role with a genuine opportunity for significant career progression