# Composites Manufacturing Lead

**Company**: TEKEVER
**Location**: Swindon
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Join TEKEVER's dynamic team as a Composites Manufacturing Lead at their UK Swindon Site. You will build and run the composites manufacturing capability for drone structure manufacture. This is a build-it-from-scratch role where you will outline the space, create the production process, recruit the team, and drive production to meet business needs.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Design and manage the composites manufacturing facility, including layout, workflow, and equipment selection

- Develop and implement composite lay-up and material processes, including laminate schedules, resin systems, and fibre/core materials

- Lead cross-plant collaboration and best practice transfer, working with established production plants across Europe

- Manage supply chain and outsourcing, selecting material and outsourcing partners

- Build and lead the composites unit manufacturing team, defining team structure, role profiles, and training needs

- Ensure quality and test regimes, including documentation, quality assurance, and non-conformance management

- Deliver production targets, meeting schedule, quality, and cost requirements

- Drive continuous improvement, implementing lean operating systems and leading improvement projects

- Ensure health, safety, and compliance, adhering to UK health and safety legislation and site procedures

**What You'll Bring:**

- Experience in composites manufacture, preferably in aerospace, automotive, or similar industries

- Practical experience with wet lay-up and pre-preg lay-up processes, including laminate, resin, fibre, and core material selection and control

- Experience in building a new manufacturing cell, line, or facility, including layout design, equipment selection, and process definition

- Working knowledge of mechanical and manual trimming and finishing methods for composite components

- A track record of recruiting, building, and retaining a shop-floor or workshop team

- Working knowledge of quality systems, documentation, and material traceability in a regulated or precision-engineered environment

- Practical continuous improvement experience, including Lean, 5S, and structured problem-solving

**What We Offer:**

- Competitive salary with discretionary annual bonus and company pension contribution match of up to 10%

- Comprehensive benefits package, including 25 days annual leave, Private Medical Insurance, Private Dental care, and Employee Assistance Programme

- Flexible hybrid working model and access to a bespoke rewards platform

- Clear career development opportunities and dedicated initiatives to boost skill sets

## Skills

### Required
- composites manufacture
- lay-up processes
- material selection
- quality systems
- continuous improvement

### Nice to have
- aerospace
- automotive
- additive manufacturing
- Six Sigma Green Belt

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