Technical Specialist - Modelling & Simulation

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 

As a Technical Specialist (TS), your role is primarily focused on the independent expert technical delivery of projects and large programmes of work and leadership in the development of project related activities across the MTC, working across various technology departments and industrial sectors.

You will be expected to lead project technical deliverables, taking ownership to ensure work meets or exceeds agreed customer requirements, and is delivered within agreed budgets and timescales. Where delegated, to act as Technical Governance lead for project deliverables.

You will undertake innovative Engineering research work in your field of expertise and across a broader MTC technology area, focused primarily on technology/manufacturing readiness levels (TRL/MRL) 3+, and able to demonstrate industrial project delivery.

You will support Senior Managers with a proactive approach in the identification, technical specification, and delivery of new and novel technology capability into the MTC, customers, or industrial members premises.

You will require involvement in all aspects of the project delivery, taking overall ownership and ensuring compliance with all relevant standards, technical support of commissioning, management of project budget and deliverables.

Where required, the role may take additional responsibility to support the leadership, and carrying out of, a specific functional role within a Technology function or large program of work within the MTC’s Technology Group or Industrial Sectors.

The Person 

The successful candidate for the role of Technical Specialist (TS) will have/be:

A degree-calibre engineer, technologist, scientist or mathematician.  An educational background, or suitable experience in operational research, business, industrial, logistics, manufacturing, mathematics, statistics, physics, computational science or engineering is preferred.

You must have strong logical reasoning and analytical skills.

You will have a range of team leadership skills along with expert knowledge and experience relating directly to the delivery of this Technology Specialist role. Demonstrate at least 7 years of experience leading simulation, modelling and analytical studies, including one or more of:

• 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 multi-methods or augmented intelligence.

In addition to your specialist field, you will have a strong understanding of the breadth of Digital Engineering technologies and their respective manufacturing industrial application.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are integral to everything that we do.  We are committed to these values and they are central to our mission.  We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, and we are more than happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require.

To apply for the position of Technical Specialist (TS) forward an up to date copy of your CV to Matthew Fielding.