# Propulsion Manufacturing Facility 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 Propulsion Manufacturing Facility Lead at their UK Swindon Site. You will build and run the propulsion manufacturing capability from concept to a fully equipped and staffed cell producing engines for their aircraft.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Design the space allocation and factory footprint for propulsion unit manufacture

- Specify, source, and commission equipment, tooling, and fixtures needed to build engines at target rate

- Plan the physical build-out in phases, aligned to the wider factory ramp and production milestones

- Visit and benchmark established production plants across Europe to translate proven layouts and processes into the design of the facility

- Design and deploy dedicated fuel and engine test cells and an in-house 3D printing capability

- Build working relationships with counterparts at established production plants across Europe

- Lead knowledge-transfer exercises to capture and adapt existing build processes and lessons learned

- Represent the facility's innovations and lessons learned back into the network

- Work with Procurement to select outsourcing partners and ensure key component rate achievement is protected

- Recruit, build, and lead the propulsion unit manufacturing team

- Define the team structure, role profiles, shift pattern, and skills matrix

- Onboard new team members and manage performance throughout

- Own the fuel and engine test regimes and ensure every unit meets specification

- Partner with the Quality function on root-cause analysis and corrective action

- Ensure the area operates within the relevant quality management system

- Own the daily, weekly, and monthly output of the power unit area against the production plan

- Ensure production rate is achieved and identify and resolve constraints in real-time

- Run a structured day-start/shift routine with clear KPIs

- Plan and balance capacity across machining, assembly, fuel system build, test, and integration

- Own the lean operating system for the area and lead improvement projects

- Hold ultimate accountability for the safety of everyone working in the power unit area

**What You'll Bring:**

- Experience in engines or power units

- Experience in building a new manufacturing cell or facility

- Hands-on experience of industrialising a product into volume production

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

- Working knowledge of quality systems and process control

- Practical continuous improvement experience

- Confidence with ERP/MES systems and shop-floor data

**What we have to offer you:**

- Highly competitive salary with discretionary annual bonus

- Company pension contribution match of up to 10%

- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

- Private Medical Insurance and Private Dental care

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Flexible hybrid working model

- Access to a bespoke rewards platform

## Skills

### Required
- engine manufacturing
- facility design
- team leadership
- quality management
- continuous improvement

### Nice to have
- additive manufacturing
- 3D printing
- aerospace
- defence
- motorsport
- automotive engine manufacture

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