Communications & Engagement Specialist – 37222616 (1245)

An exciting opportunity for a Communications & Engagement Specialist to join a major manufacturing systems transformation programme within a leading automotive powertrain facility in Wolverhampton. This role focuses on driving employee engagement, change readiness, and communication activities across the business, including change impact assessments, stakeholder communications, events, and digital content management. Ideal for candidates with experience in change management, internal communications, stakeholder engagement, and organisational transformation within manufacturing or complex operational environments.

Location: Wolverhampton

Duties:
This opportunity is for a Communications & Engagement specialist to work on a manufacturing systems transformation at the powertrain facility.

The Communication and Engagement specialist's overarching objective is ensuring robust communication & engagement with the impacted users, getting the organisation engaged and ready for the change, and ensuring that the change is adopted and sustained.

Key activities include:

• Conducting Change Impact Assessments to identify the gaps in knowledge and produce a change plan to close them.
• Create engaging content for various platforms including newsletters, SharePoint site, noticeboard posters, banners, PowerPoint presentations, email messages, surveys and materials supporting senior managers and stakeholders.
• Release communications to the impacted users and monitor results.
• Arrange and host communications events, show and tell events, demonstrations working with the change and training team and product specialists.
• Take ownership of change and communication materials posted in the SharePoint site, encouraging managers and stakeholders to visit the site as a key source of information and assistance in delivering the change across their teams.
• Tracking and reporting business readiness in senior reviews

• You must be a people-person, with a customer first approach
• Familiar with change frameworks
• Good communicator
• Able to prepare and present readiness statuses
• Self-driven & experienced with change activities - understanding 'what's next' and delivering it