About us
We design and build special purpose machines for automotive manufacturing, and we do the whole of it ourselves, from concept through build and commissioning to long-term support. Our customers are tier-one and tier-two suppliers across the National Capital Region.
The work sits where mechanical engineering meets contemporary inspection technology. Our machines take on tasks that have traditionally rested on the human eye, sustained across a full shift, and they do that work at line rate. We would rather describe the specifics in conversation than in a public advertisement, and we will be entirely open with you once we meet.
We are a small and deliberately technical team. There is no layer between the person doing the work and the person deciding what the work should be.
The role
We are looking for a Project Manager who has built special purpose machines and put them into automotive plants, and who wants to do that again with a far more capable set of eyes on the machine.
You will own the journey of a machine from purchase order to a signed acceptance certificate on the customer's floor. That means the site survey before we build, the coordination while we build, the factory testing before we dispatch, the commissioning once we arrive, and the relationship that carries on afterwards. When a machine works on a customer's line, it will be because of what you did. When it does not, you will be the person who finds out why.
We should be straightforward about the shape of this role. You will manage projects rather than people, at least to begin with. You will hold the schedule, the vendors, the customer and the acceptance criteria, and you will also be the person with a laptop open beside the panel at eleven at night during commissioning week. As we grow, technicians and junior engineers will come under you, and the person in this seat will be the one who builds that team.
You will report directly to the Principal Scientist.
What you will do
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