Section Manager FIM

Section Manager FIM

Section Manager - Fatigue Integrity Management

Materials Performance & Integrity

Location: Cambridge

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Job Profile: Section Manager

Salary/annum: £75,000 - £85,000

Reference number: 105/24

Closing Date: 20 November 2024

Note: Applicants might receive offers and undergo interviews before the deadline, although the position will remain available for at least seven days. We recommend submitting your application for this role as soon as you can during the recruitment process, prior to the closing date.

Description of role:

TWI Limited is seeking an experienced and dynamic Section Manager for our Fracture and Fatigue teams of specialists that form the Fatigue and Integrity Management (FIM) section. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in overseeing our advanced testing facilities, ensuring the highest standards of quality and safety in our operations and delivering the section financial targets. You will lead a team of skilled engineers and technicians, driving innovation and excellence in the testing of metallic structures.

The Fatigue and Integrity Management (FIM) section lies at the heart of TWI's 75 years of excellence in understanding materials and joints behaviour under challenging environments. For more than 50 years, the section has produced deep knowledge in our understanding of materials performance. This knowledge has fed a plethora of services for TWI members and created worldwide value for all industry sectors:

• New ways of testing metallic structures have been invented
• Bespoke test rigs have been designed and constructed for the benefit of TWI Members
• New standards have been developed, distilling TWI engineers' knowledge into guidelines to test, certify and qualify materials and structures
• Novel integrity management tools have been created and still provide easy access to the combined knowledge of generation of TWI engineers
• Fitness for service codes to optimize materials performance and assure optimum value during life cycle of structures

We are now seeking an experienced new manager to lead the FIM Section and continue TWI’s exciting journey in understanding materials performance and integrity. The FIM section manager will be responsible for:

• Maintaining TWI reputation for excellence,
• Fostering commercial growth
• Expanding our materials knowledge for the benefit of TWI members.

The ideal candidate should have a degree in engineering in order to have a good understanding of our technology offering to our clients and influence TWI investment in technology.

Commercial awareness is also paramount in order to maintain and grow the section’s profitability.

Other attributes we are looking for are:

• Excellence at leading highly motivated teams of engineers and technicians.
• Provide guidance and support to the team in order to deliver projects to time and budget.
• Understanding of project management principles in order to successfully support operational challenges, assess risk in projects and price accordingly
• Experience with Oil & Gas operators and their supply chains as they form the key client base of the section
• Experience in budgeting complicated engineering work
• Experience in building business plans for investing in new technologies in order to facilitate growth of the section and keep TWI at the forefront of materials research for the benefit of industry
• Advocate of continuous improvement mindset and tools to improve section operations, support team members in their career development, find and address bottlenecks

For further details, please follow the Job Description link below:

https://www.twi-global.com/pdfs/careers/105-24-JD-FIM-Section-Manager.pdf

Travel:

This position may require regular travel both in the UK and abroad.

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 gives us our competitive edge and enables 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.

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