MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre
Centre Head and Curriculum Manager
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The Vacancy
MTC Training is a multi-award-winning Independent Training Provider delivering high-quality engineering apprenticeships and upskilling training courses.
The Centre Head and Curriculum Manager role is required to lead the delivery team, including the design, development, and delivery of our pioneering training program in our MTC Training facility within AMTC.
Key Activities
- Manage a team of Trainers, Skills Coaches, and Supporting Roles, providing outstanding apprenticeship and HNC/HTQ provision across all programs within MTC Training at the Ansty site.
- Lead, manage, and motivate colleagues to highly perform, creating a positive culture and working environment.
- Lead on the health and safety of learners and colleagues.
- Responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the MTC Training programs.
- Management of all facilities and operational needs for the site, including day-to-day issues.
- Continuous improvement and innovation of delivery.
- Leadership and management of the training team, including performance reviews and CPD, ensuring best-in-class teaching.
- Work with all MTC Training teams to ensure delivery in an effective and cost-efficient method.
- Engage with the marketing, recruitment, apprentice placement, and employer engagement.
- Ensure the quality of the training provision (DfE, DWP, Awarding Organisations, Ofsted, Skills England, Internal and External processes, and audits).
- Develop relationships with customers to support the growth of MTC Training.
- Budget responsibility for the MTC Training delivery at Ansty.
- Responsible for stakeholder engagement.
- Manage quality and standards of delivery across MTC Training within Ansty.
- Set standards, build policies, and develop practices that lead to an outstanding learner experience.
- Responsible for the timely completion of all learners against set Government achievement targets.
- Promote a positive safety culture by ensuring that safety issues and targets are met, lead by example, and develop new approaches to deliver the vision of zero accidents.
- Responsible for producing reports aligned to the apprentice program performance.
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Qualifications
Essential
- Holding a technical qualification at HNC or above.
- Experience of managing curriculum teams to highly perform, creating a culture where colleagues are engaged and valued.
- Successful experience as a senior academic manager.
- Working in the engineering training sector.
- Successful Ofsted / DfE audits.
- Management experience within the education sector.
- Experience of managing people cross-functionally.
- Experience of operating at a strategic level.
- Able to travel throughout the UK, occasionally overseas if required.
- Driving license required.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving.
Vetting Checks
Learners’ safety and wellbeing is of paramount importance to all MTC Training employees. All individuals are expected to actively contribute to our culture of safeguarding and vigilance to ensure learning is delivered in the safest environment possible.
Shortlisted candidates are subject to safer recruitment screening, including but not limited to:
- Employment history check
- Right to work check
- Identity check
- Two references
- Qualification check
- Industry prohibitions check (applies to program delivery and assessment roles)
- Public online activity search
- Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list check
The successful applicant will be required to promptly complete training relating to safeguarding and prevent and is expected to undertake ongoing training in relation to children’s safety and wellbeing.
The successful applicant will be expected to maintain our safeguarding culture and contribute to it by supporting the Designated Safeguarding Lead and safeguarding team.
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The successful applicant will be required to adhere to our Code of Conduct and share our commitment to the welfare of children.
About The MTC
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organization, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe.
The MTC's engineers, scientists, and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies.
Established to prove cutting-edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia, and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas, and defense. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability, and competitiveness.
Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design, and training for the skills of the future.
The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool, and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.
Reference Checks and Security Checks (where applicable)
Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.
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