Engineering Manager Senior Leadership Opportunity Engineering Manager An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and ambitious Engineering Manager to join a growing engineering business and play a key role within the Senior Leadership Team. This is a senior leadership position with responsibility for engineering strategy, product development, project delivery and team performance, within the aggregate washing and materials-processing sector. The successful candidate will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team and oversee innovative, customised projects from concept and design through to manufacture, testing and production release.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, mentor and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team. Take ownership of engineering projects from concept through to production. Drive NPD/NPI and continuous product improvement. Develop and maintain engineering standards covering drawings, BOMs, design reviews and engineering change control. Improve design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA), product cost and efficiency. Support Sales and Applications with bespoke and technically challenging projects. Manage engineering resources, priorities, budgets and project delivery.
Drive standardisation and modularisation across the product range. Lead root-cause analysis and engineering quality improvements. Ensure designs comply with relevant machinery safety legislation and engineering standards. Develop engineering KPIs and drive departmental performance. Work closely with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Operations and Senior Management.
About You:
Ideally, you will have: A degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline. Proven experience leading an engineering/design function within manufacturing. Experience within aggregate washing, crushing, screening, quarrying, recycling, bulk materials handling or heavy machinery. Strong knowledge of heavy fabricated machinery and bespoke engineered equipment. Experience managing projects within an Engineer-to-Order or Configure-to-Order environment. Proven NPD/NPI and continuous improvement experience. Strong 3D CAD capability, ideally Creo. Experience with BOMs, engineering change control and product configuration. Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder-management skills. Strong commercial awareness, with an understanding of engineering costs
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