Diverse | Full-time | 40 Hours p/w
Location: Southampton
The Role
Diverse is seeking an experienced Loadsense Manager to take responsibility for the day-to-day management of our specialist marine loadcell manufacturing operation.
The following experience and skills are essential for this role:
- Proven experience in a manufacturing, engineering, marine or technical environment.
- Experience managing people and coordinating manufacturing or production activities.
- Strong customer-facing and commercial experience, including handling sales enquiries and preparing quotations.
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple orders, customers, suppliers and deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to take ownership of tasks from enquiry through to delivery.
- Confident communication skills, with the ability to deal professionally with customers, suppliers, subcontractors and internal teams.
- Experience with purchasing, invoicing and general commercial administration.
- Ability to coordinate international shipping and export processes.
- A practical, hands-on approach and willingness to visit suppliers/subcontractors and manage deliveries and collections.
Experience in the marine, superyacht, yacht hardware, rigging, load measurement, precision engineering or specialist manufacturing sectors would be a significant advantage.
Experience using Xero is also advantageous.
Key Responsibilities
As Loadsense Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the loadcell business, managing employees and coordinating activities across manufacturing, sales, purchasing, suppliers and logistics.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing and coordinating the loadcell manufacturing process.
- Managing Loadsense employees and providing guidance and support.
- Coordinating workloads to ensure production and customer deadlines are achieved.
- Dealing with customer sales enquiries and progressing opportunities through to order.
- Preparing accurate and competitive quotations.
- Liaising with the in-house design team to coordinate customer and manufacturing requirements.
- Managing purchasing of materials, components and services.
- Liaising with suppliers and subcontractors.
- Visiting subcontractors and arranging deliveries and collections where required.
- Coordinating sales of other yacht hardware, including products such as Edson, Harken and Lewmar.
- Managing invoicing and accounting administration using Xero.
- Coordinating international shipping and export requirements, ensuring orders are dispatched smoothly and with the correct documentation.
- Maintaining accurate records across sales, purchasing, production and invoicing.
- Identifying and resolving issues that could affect production, delivery or customer satisfaction.
About Diverse
For over 30 years, Diverse has been producing a range of world-leading marine loadcell products, providing accurate and reliable load measurement solutions to the marine market.
Our loadcells are uniquely designed to fit discreetly onboard. Many take the form of rigging pins, while others are manufactured as bespoke fittings, links and shims. Our products range from compact loadcells that can fit in your pocket to highly engineered solutions designed to measure immense rigging loads on some of the world's largest superyachts.
Over recent years, we have brought every element of design, manufacture and calibration in-house, enabling us to ensure each product is fully optimised, carefully manufactured, thoroughly tested and calibrated to the highest possible level of accuracy before being shipped to the customer ready for installation.
About You
You will be a highly organised, commercially aware and technically minded individual who is comfortable taking responsibility and managing a varied workload.
You will need to be confident working independently, making decisions, solving problems and ensuring that work continues to progress without unnecessary delays.
The role requires someone who can move comfortably between production management, customer communication, sales, purchasing, administration and logistics.
A background in the marine or superyacht industry is highly desirable, particularly experience with yacht hardware, rigging, engineering or load measurement. However, candidates with strong transferable experience from another technical manufacturing environment will also be considered.
About the Opportunity
This is a key position within a specialist business with more than 30 years' experience in marine load measurement, supplying highly engineered products to the international marine and superyacht sectors.
The successful candidate will have a genuine opportunity to take ownership of a varied and important role, working across the full operation from customer enquiry and quotation through to manufacture, invoicing, shipping and final delivery.
If you have the manufacturing/engineering experience, management skills and commercial ability required to take ownership of this role, we would like to hear from you.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From £47,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- Do you have any experience in manufacturing processes
Experience:
- Yachting Industry : 5 years (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
