Quality Engineer - mKTP

at  Cardiff Metropolitan University

QUALITY ENGINEER - MKTP

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) is one of Europe’s leading government funded collaborative programmes helping businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity using expertise, skills and resources from a UK knowledge base. The mKTP is being led by staff from the Project Management Group (PMG) in Cardiff School of Management.
You will be responsible for managing and supporting a collaborative Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership (mKTP) for a fixed term of 12 months between MM Engineered Solutions Limited (company partner) and Cardiff Metropolitan University.
The Company: MM Engineered Solutions Limited (T/A MM Engineering)
MM Engineering is a specialist defence engineering company that design, manufacture and install high quality blast and flood defence solutions across the UK and export internationally. The company is based in a 20,000 sq ft factory in Port Talbot, Wales, UK.
Flood defence is at the core of the company’s product portfolio. Using a team of industry experts and leading engineers, MME designs and creates products of the highest quality to protect customers’ assets against the risk of flooding faced by typical utility assets, such as electricity substations and water pumping stations.
The company’s flood defence products can also be used to protect a range of other assets - all in the B2B market sector - including but not limited to various community schemes such as, publicly-funded flood defence projects protecting areas of towns and cities.

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The role is to help MM Engineering (MME) change its management processes and organisational culture to scale the business and continue to grow to meet increasing customer demands and position MME to achieve its 5 years post-project profit targets and strategic aims.

MME’s vision for the future has three stages:

• Lead a systems improvement strategy across several key product development areas, while significantly increasing capacity for R&D and innovation and in-house empowerment and upskilling for management and existing staff. This will be achieved by working collaboratively with project teams to co-develop and implement a capability model to meet MME’s strategic aims.
• To improve management strategy planning, improved company- wide product-based process planning, articulating a scaling-up plan/expansion strategy and the development of an automation integration plan. It is planned that this will be accomplished through the co-creation of bespoke models (agile-driven project management office (a-PMO) and integrated material requirements planning (i-MRP) for MME.
• To create headroom that will allow the company to develop new products, enter new markets and continue to grow, by embedding tailored a-PMO and i-MRP models for continuous process improvement and standardisation, and adaptive product development life cycle and review.

You’ll lead the way by:

• Helping to embed and implement agile project management office (a-PMO) and integrated material requirements planning (i-MRP) models with existing project management software for continuous process improvement and standardisation including training of staff.
• Investigating the potential for optimisation of the design, manufacture, and installation of the existing integrated material requirements planning (i-MRP) software and newly developed products. This will include using a range of design and analysis software tools (e.g. Process Modelling Software) as required.
• Managing the Associate Support budget associated with the mKTP Project.
• Providing a 360-degree view of the key operational activities (procurement, supply chain, automation, marketing) which will ensure that all MME staff are engaged in the delivery of the intended outcomes and the benefits of the mKTP.
• Supporting robust research design and data management tools to synthesise relevant research design that will be used to address the identified business problem.
• Completing a periodic formative and final summative report while tracking and quantifying the benefits that have been achieved prior to the agreed end of the mKTP programme.