Job title: Manufacturing Data Scientist

Reference: E(phone number removed)

Location: Halewood, Merseyside

Duration: Permanent

Start date: ASAP

Salary: £61,116.53 pa (inclusive of 35% holiday bonus for 33 days per year; 25 vacation & 8 bank holidays)

GPW Recruitment are partnering with Ford Halewood Transmissions Ltd (FHTL) in Halewood to recruit a Manufacturing Data Scientist to work in their existing site during a huge transformation. Ford is investing £230m into the Halewood site to produce electric power units and it will be the first site to manufacture EV components in Europe, in 2024 with a capacity of 420,000 units.

The role

Creating Smart Vehicles for a Smart World through Connectivity is a key priority for Ford Motor Company. Leveraging Connectivity opportunities requires data to be identified, understood, extracted, processed, and presented in a way that generates insights for use by the wider team. This role will specifically support wrangling, transformation, and analysis of data, generating new insights for our manufacturing systems enabling operational spend reduction and system optimisation.

You will be part of the plant manufacturing engineering team and be responsible for conceptualising, developing and maintaining a range of manufacturing data science projects and products. You will manage projects and deliver them to optimal standards in line with cost and timing objectives. The role will involve working with a varied range of teams including engineers, management, IT, production, and maintenance personnel to deliver projects and services which support an advanced automotive manufacturing environment.

Applicants should be able to:

• Use data science background to identify new opportunities to boost plant efficiency
  
  
• Extract, transform, load, analyse and report complex manufacturing data from multiple data sources
  
  
• Develop and Maintain a range of visualisation products to communicate insights including manufacturing data dashboards
  
  
• Act as plant point of contact with our central innovation network, global data analytics & insights team, as well as the various IT departments within Ford Motor Company
  
  
• Develop a digital/data science team within the plant
  
  
• Deploy data analytical training and skills development within other departments within the plant
  
  Qualifications and Experience required by the Manufacturing Data Scientist
  
  
• Degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, a Physical Science or a related quantitative field is required or equivalent experience relevant to the field in an engineering/automotive environment
  
  
• Demonstrable problem solving skills and providing data support to manufacturing investigations
  
  
• Demonstrable competence in automating data pipelines
  
  
• Working knowledge of Big Data Analytics tools with experience of interfacing to Cloud based databases and data visualisation tools
  
  
• Demonstrable skills in writing SQL to query databases and experience in Python programming language.
  
  
• Understanding of capabilities of current and future data analytical technologies
  
  
• High degree of self-initiative, drive and flexibility
  
  
• Strong ability to lead, motivate and work in a team
  
  
• Resilience is essential. Candidate must be able to deal with difficult problems whilst maintaining a positive attitude.
  
  Key Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
  
  To be a role model for Ford+ behaviours and requirements
  
  Promote safety and a zero-accident culture
  
  Adopt a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ethos
  
  Control costs to ensure best possible value for the company
  
  Identify efficiency opportunities and improvements
  
  Integrate with the existing Manufacturing and Engineering teams and work with internal and external parties to achieve project deliverables
  
  Drive continuous improvement of business objectives
  
  Effective communication outside and inside the organisation including Trade Union
  
  On Offer as the Manufacturing Data Scientist
  
  
• Salary of £61,116.53 pa (inclusive of 35% holiday bonus for 33 days per year; 25 vacation & 8 bank holidays)
  
  
• Hours of work are Monday to Thursday 7:00-15:30 and Friday 7:00-12:30
  
  
• Access to the Employee Development and Assistance Programme
  
  
• A unique opportunity to access Ford's Privilege scheme - allowing you to purchase Ford vehicles at a discount
  
  
• A great salary increasing yearly, along with a competitive pension scheme
  
  
• An excellent work-life balance, including a generous holiday allowance of 25 days (inclusive of set shutdown dates)
  
  
• Cycle to Work Scheme
  
  
• On site facilities such as a gym, sauna and steam room
  
  About Ford
  
  Ford Motor Company is a global automotive industry leader that manufactures or distributes vehicles across six continents. With over 200,000 employees and 65 plants worldwide, the UK employ over 13,000 individuals.
  
  The Ford+ plan is transforming the business to align the global organisation into an integrated team to accelerate. This is by focusing on the creation of vehicles revising the customers true demands, reduction of costs, to introduce exciting new technology, enhance quality and improve efficiency.
  
  About Ford Halewood Transmission Limited
  
  Ford Halewood Transmission Limited (FHTL) develops and manufactures transmissions with an employee workforce of circa 600 people. The Plant has a proud 60-year history as a local employer and are dedicated to manufacturing high quality products. Ford are currently investing up to £230 million at the facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles.
  
  Future Prospects
  
  The business invests significantly in its employee development.
  
  FHTL supports the onward development and growth of all personnel and has a track record of promoting from within based on performance and achievement.
  
  Proposed start date:
  
  ASAP – Based on personal availability if you accept the offer of employment.
  
  The Company is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of race, religion or belief, sex, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability. This vacancy is advertised in line with the FORD equal opportunities policy.
  
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