Act as the strategic technical authority for industrialisation—setting methods, standards, and long-term capability.
Lead complex, cross-site, or high-risk programmes.
Define and drive the industrialisation strategy across programmes/lines/commodities/products.
Lead multiple teams or streams, build capabilities, and ensure delivery against business objectives.
Core Responsibilities: Define industrialisation frameworks, standards, maturity models, and golden processes; lead make/buy/automation strategy; influence product architecture for DfM/DfA
Translate strategy into roadmaps; portfolio governance; budget ownership; workforce planning; vendor/partner management; cross-functional alignment with Ops/Programs/Engineering.
Leadership & Collaboration: Technical leadership across sites/functions; coaches seniors; convenes communities of practice.
Governance & Standards: Authors/owns standards, templates, and gate criteria; leads audits and lessons learned site/division-wide.
Establishes governance cadence, metrics packs, and compliance frameworks; accountable for audit outcomes.
Innovation & CI: Defines technology roadmap (automation, digital manufacturing, NDT, additive, analytics); evaluates and de-risks new tech.
Risk & Readiness: Enterprise risk view for novel processes; sets contingency strategies; approves readiness for complex launches.
Financial Accountability: Defines multi-year capex strategy and value case; drives structural cost-out across programs.
People Management: Project / Product Line Leadership, Technical authority; mentors across teams.
Typical Deliverables: Standards, roadmaps, technology evaluations, product/process lessons learned, complex sign-offs, make/buy strategies.
Strategy documents, portfolio dashboards, budget/capex plans, organisational capability plans, governance packs.
