cheezemonkhai

What does anyone think to this job, I'm thinking of applying and am trying to work out exactly what it involves. If it project management or more production side of things.

Thanks
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TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER.

To liaise with the project manager, engineering, production and management to determine requirements for new products in line with overall project schedule.

· To maintain a project plan for New Product Introduction (NPI) that supports the main project plan and is ‘bought into’ by the relevant managers.

· To determine test and inspection standards and establish quality and production test yield objectives of the finished product with support from the Product Engineer and test technician.

· To establish and document the sequence of operations to assemble and configure parts or products.

· To establish the expected yields for each component within in the project and to define the processes that will ensure these yields are met.

· To apply Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) to prove the robustness of manufacturing processes.

· To liaise with the Senior Process Engineer to design layout of equipment, materials, and workspace to illustrate maximum efficiency.

· To work with the NPO Materials Team who will ensure that the supply chain is in place for both development/prototype builds and for post General Availability (GA) production.

· To work closely with the NPI lab team to ensure timely build and test of product to support the project schedule and to collect feedback of build issues for the development group.

· To liaise with the product engineer to ensure that during the development phase that design issues are captured and fed back to the development group in a structured fashion.

· To work with the Failure Analysis teams to put in place failure analysis knowledge during the development phase.

· To manage a pilot whilst following the guidelines in place for managing and reporting on the progress of pilot material through the production process.

· To devise the inspection criteria for production including a sampling plan, produce this in a format that is released to the line.

· To devise an out of box audit sampling plan to be applied to customer shipments during the first shipments post GA.

· To manage the transfer of production of products from the UK to Sacramento via the structured control of relevant tooling, test software and documentation and attendance to conference calls.

· To work within the procedures for the release of documents via Process Change Note (PCN).

· To work within the quality systems in place supporting the role of the quality team in all aspects of work.

· To promote a culture of achieving all tasks ‘right first time’.

· To take personal responsibility for learning about the technologies involved in storage using time to research via the web and other sources.

· To attend conference calls with customers, always being punctual in this attendance and behaving in a professional manner that promotes Xyratex in a beneficial way.

· Must contribute to Xyratex meeting the requirements of the Health and Safety Awareness at work act.

Skills and Qualifications


This opportunity requires people with the follow personal attributes:-Energetic / Articulate / Organised / Analytical / Tenacious /Persistent / Assertive / Communicative.



Essential Skills



· Must be PC literate, conversant with the use MS office.

· Must be confident, articulate, able to deal with all levels in the organisation.

· Must be either a recent Graduate or completing a thick sandwich course and taking a one year industrial placement.

· Graduate program must be in one of the following disciplines or similar:-Electronics / Software / Computer Science / Communications / Manufacturing Engineering / Engineering with business combined



Desirable Skills



· Some previous exposure to the assembly and test of electronics in medium volume.

· Some project work as part of the degree program which has synergy with the Xyratex business model.

· Conversant with MS Project.

· Some previous exposure to the principles of project management.

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SteVRs

Looking at the necessary skills I'd say it was project management rahther than hands-on.

yaktrebor

I think they are being a liitle too vague.....

A bit more to the job description would help..

Someone in HR has written that and does not understand a word of it.

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Goochie

I think its the sort of role that woul dbe based in a "production office" near the shop floor. Basically the job involves doing all the little bits and bobs that the production manager/director doesnt have the time to do.

Could be a rewarding position as it seems there is rom to make a difference but in some places these types of roles can be difficult because those around you wont see the advantages of changing.

The company obviously has various issues associated with their manufacturing process and they're looking for someone to go in there and sort them out.

ncarring

Amazing how they write all that onerous-sounding stuff and then say it would be suitable for a graduate on a sandwich course!

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yaktrebor

That what I thought.

Sound like they have a problem, but not the cash to sort it out.

If they want a recent graduate, then they are not going to get the right person with the experience required to sort out these problems.

SWMBO can't believe that unlike the NHS (don't even go there.. the NHS is not the real world),companies don't tell you how much the job is paying, until you go for an interview.

The answer is simple, 9 times out of 10, they want to get someone cheap, so they will wait to find out what you are already getting paid, before making you an offer.

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Goochie

I recently went for an inteview following an equally long-winded list of requirments.

The guy said he'd done that to prevent applications from un-qualified school leavers who thought they'd "give it a go" Turned out it was a glorified admin job.

cheezemonkhai

I threw my CV in as it's at the place i already work.

If i get an interview then great and if not then no loss. If i do and find it isn't what i want i can always walk away.

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Me-109

It seems to be a very involved project management role. The role is very much a coordination role requiring a good knowledge of quality assurance and quality control in association with understanding manufacturing techniques and technologies. However, they shoot it down at the end requiring only a little exposure to project management.

They seem to think it is suitable for a new graduate or someone currently on a degree course, so there is one indicator that the role will not be paying what it is worth. This may also imply that the successful candidate may not end up doing all elements of the job spec because that may be tailored (reduced) to the candidates abilities or strengths. The warning that comes with it is that it may therefore only be short-term - like a year at most, thinking along the lines of the sandwich course - so it may expose you to new areas of work and/or skills, but at the end of that time you may also not have a job to go back to elsewhere within the company.

It's also worth mentioning to your line management that you have applied, together with any reasons for doing so and to ask if they actually know anything about the role. Better coming from you than the interviewer if he/she goes looking for references from your current management.

cheezemonkhai

I have spoken to my manager and line manager about it and no they are not sure.

Our place tends to take on a sandwich student then take them back afterwards. Tbh I will just have a chat with the bloke, but I couldn't go talk to him without applying. Therefore i put my CV in and will ask questions, if it isn't what i expect i won't be going there.

Thanks all

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