NMO Team Manager
Numerical Modelling and Optimisation Team Manager
Location: Middlesbrough or Cambridge
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Job Profile: Team Manager
Salary/annum: Min £42,159 - Max £66,250
Closing Date: 31 March 2025
Description of role:
The Numerical Modelling and Optimisation Section (NMO), primarily has staff and facilities at our headquarters in Cambridge and our technology centre in Middlesbrough, UK. The team operate a hybrid mode of working. The Section performs internationally recognised modelling, simulation and optimisation work in additive manufacturing, welding/joining, materials performance and structural integrity. Various software and programming tools are employed, such as Abaqus, COMSOL, Python and MATLAB. We support a diverse range of industrial clients with the challenges they face, and we complement the work of many of TWIs processing and integrity/testing Sections.
The Section has a global client base spanning a broad range of industrial sectors, including aerospace, power generation, oil, gas and hydrogen, transport and defence. The successful candidate will enjoy responsibility for these areas and rapidly gain further experience in them. You will contribute to the core skills of a well-established exciting and innovative team of engineers who have a strong collegiate culture.
NMO delivers projects to an international customer base, often with demanding requirements. TWI is seeking to profitably grow its business not only in numerical modelling but also in data management, machine learning and application development and provision, and therefore knowledge of these areas is essential.
At Team Manager level, the role is expected to be focused on both delivery (sales & projects) as well as line management. This will entail strong interaction with existing and potential customers as well as NMO team members and TWI staff in general.
Key accountabilities
- Developing a growing business with a growth culture: customer relationships, technical capability and products, research excellence, team leadership and management, compliance with policy, contribution to budget.
- Recruit, develop, retain and progress a team to support your business units ambitions, meet TWI requirements and provide stimulating career paths for your staff.
- Together with NMO team members, evolve the strategy and roadmap of the Section, to be consistent with the growth culture, research excellence and TWI overall strategy.
- Proactively develop a pipeline of new business to budget for your team, engaging your team with potential customers, colleagues in other business units and the business development function.
- Utilise technical knowledge to lead and contribute to projects where necessary or appropriate; provide technical leadership to the staff, enabling problem solving.
- Promote and support delivery of work to the high satisfaction of clients.
- Maintain safe, secure, on-time, to cost and within scope the delivery of existing and new products; quality of results and reports is paramount.
- Maintain a healthy, friendly and productive environment for the NMO team.
- Ensure team complies with TWI policy.
For further details, please follow the Job Description link below:
https://www.twi-global.com/pdfs/careers/JR100512-Job-Description-NMO-Team-Manager.pdf
About us:
TWI Ltd is a world expert in engineering, materials and joining technologies with significant property assets. We provide industry with advice and know-how in design, fabrication, failure analysis and prevention.
We offer opportunities to collaborate with inspiring and expert teams and a supportive environment in which you are actively encouraged to share your ideas and continually develop your own skills and knowledge.
If you are looking to join an organisation that is fuelled by innovation, teamwork, and openness, this role could be for you.
Diversity statement:
TWI Ltd is committed to treating all employees fairly and to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to create a work environment where our employees can reach their full potential. We put Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the heart of our people practices to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
Inclusion:
We recognise that it’s the differences of our people that give us our competitive edge and enable us to maintain our world leading reputation. This is why we are committed to ensuring there is diversity across every level of our organisation; representative of the Members and societies we serve. We have made Inclusion our number one corporate value to demonstrate our commitment to ensure it is at the core of everything we do at TWI.
Disability Confident Scheme:
We are pleased to confirm that we have achieved the first stage accreditation, which means we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’. This is a government-supported scheme that supports organisations like TWI to make the most of the talents that people with disability can bring to our workplace. The scheme helps us recruit and retain great people; draw from the widest possible pool of talent; secure high-quality employees who are skilled, loyal and hardworking; and improve employee morale and commitment by demonstrating that we treat all of our people fairly.
Why work for TWI?
We offer a competitive salary, share-in-success bonus scheme, generous pension scheme (both employee contribution (flexible amount) and TWI contribution (up to 10% of salary)), holiday (20 days + 5 Corporate days + 8 bank holiday’s), private health and dental cover, career development and training, onsite employee restaurant, onsite gym, day nursery available for companies on Granta Park (Cambridge) site (subject to availability), onsite parking and more.
We know that balancing work and personal life can at times be challenging. This is why we continue to review and implement family friendly policies including hybrid working, flexible working, enhanced maternity pay and paid parental leave.
As one of the world’s leading independent research and technology organisations, we are committed to attracting, motivating and retaining the best talent from around the world. Our goal is to develop the next generation of experts to address future industry challenges.
We are committed to creating a culture that recognises and respects the differences between people while valuing the contribution everyone makes to TWI.
The diversity of our staff and students makes a positive and important contribution to our continuing success.
TWI offers a comprehensive training programme, incorporating both in-house and external courses to support staff development.
TWI Values:
Our six values provide a point of reference for the way we expect our people to operate and behave.
- Inclusion: Valuing the contribution from every individual, creating value for our customers
- Teamwork: Building effective working relationships, we accomplish more together
- Adaptability: Engaging positively with change to meet the needs of the business
- Taking Responsibility: Achieving our objectives and personal development
- Innovation & Expertise: Championing new ideas and sharing knowledge to solve industry problems
- Customer Focus: Building trusting relationships with our customers
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What We Do
TWI is a global leader in technology engineering providing research and consultancy to its Members.
Respected for its expertise, professionalism, impartiality and confidentiality, TWI works with the most influential companies worldwide across all industry sectors.
A Member company benefits from TWI's specialist knowledge in structural integrity and corrosion management, materials testing, NDT, failure investigation, welding and joining technologies, materials processing and training.
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