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Job Title: Personal Assistant

Duration: 9 months, extensions likely

Location: WFH/Crewe twice per week

Salary: £19.00 - £22.40 per hour depending on experience

The Company:

Founded in 1919, to the current team of over 4,000 dedicated employees, my clients' extraordinary cars have always been designed and built by exceptional people using only the finest of materials. They have always been driven by exceptional people, too. From the enthusiastic Boys and Girls who raced the cars in the 1920s, encouraging the founder to achieve ever greater feats of engineering, to the visionary owners of today.

Main Goals And Objectives:

Support the EP Director in any and all tasks as requested; prepare and brief the Director on relevant meetings and identify relevant and critical topics
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in EP operations
Manage diary and workload planning
Create and prepare documents incl. story lining and coordination with knowledge holders to support relevant meetings and decisions
Liaise, interact and coordinate with other department leaders where required and appropriate
Manage, support and assist the flow of information between the Director and the Engineering and EP First Line
Schedule, coordinate, run and minute appropriate high-level engineering meetings, including the TCG, Pre PSF, Pre BVAP and others as required
Support preparation of engineering strategy days with strategy leader
Manage all R&D actions assigned to EP and close out to Product Lines
Create EP lead communications and liaises with MoB TA
Own the creation and update of EP website and central storage of information
Support and assist other business functions when help or information is required from Engineering.

Main Responsibilities:

Support the EP Director in any and all tasks as requested; prepare and brief the Director on relevant meetings and identify relevant and critical topics. Create documentation and presentations, manage centrally stored documents
Minute major technical meetings, log and chase actions to resolution. Ensure all EP information and communications is benchmark and cascaded to R&D.
Provide effective interaction between all R&D areas to ensure EP get a central voice in order to plan and manage projects.
Maintain effective communication internally and within VW Group.
Responsibility to ensure factual and effective communication is provided at all levels, including within all cross-functional working teams.
Accountable for deliverables to a specified timeframe, quality and cost.
Ability to demonstrate deliverables status at any time with Key Performance Indicators.
Manage workload on a daily basis and respond to both long term and short term task requests.
Responsible for leading prompt concern resolution on existing processes, the coordination of resource, and ability to provide containment solutions when necessary.
Propose process and method improvements to develop departmental capability.
Ability to lead on technical direction working with other departments/Engineers.
Provide technical input into concepts for future development.
Committed to own continuous professional development.
Demonstrate a broad awareness of process and operational requirements within the area.
Keep up to date with industry innovations and relevant Group technical roadmap deployment.If you think you have the experience and knowledge, please apply with your CV right now for instant consideration!

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Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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