Himanshu Malik
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Engagement Model Offered
Day Rate / Hourly Rate; Technical / Advisory; Project Based; Interim / Contract; Full time Transition
Suited to Organisational Types
Start-ups; Scale-ups; SME; Corporate
Himanshu is a Director of Manufacturing and Head of Engineering with over 14 years of experience across battery, automotive and advanced manufacturing. He has worked with organisations including Volklec, UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, Aston Martin and Nissan.
He supports organisations in industrialising new technologies, fixing underperforming operations and scaling manufacturing to deliver profitable growth.
Himanshu’s Arena
Battery & Automotive Manufacturing.
Technical Focus: Li-ion Cell Manufacturing, Industrialisation & Scale-Up.
Function Expertise: Manufacturing Transformation, Operational Performance, Engineering Leadership.
Superpowers
Rapidly industrialises new technologies from R&D into production-ready operations.
Diagnoses and resolves complex manufacturing challenges across quality, cost and yield.
Bridges technical depth with commercial delivery to drive profitable scale.
Aligns strategy, execution and investment to deliver measurable growth.
Impact in Action
UK Battery Sector: Led industrialisation strategy for a high-energy 21700 cylindrical cell programme, aligning technology transfer, supply chain and manufacturing readiness.
Global Automotive (2016–2024): Delivered major manufacturing transformations, improving quality, cost and throughput across multiple operations.
Career-wide: Delivered multi-million-pound capex, automation and scale-up programmes across complex manufacturing environments.
Managed multi-million-pound budgets and teams of 25+ direct reports.
Working style
Strategic, decisive and driven.
Combines hands-on manufacturing expertise with strong leadership to deliver results at scale.