Details:
- Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Kent
- Date: 4 days ago
Description:
Engineering Manager - Mid Kent - -£65-75K + benefits
Join a growing, privately-owned engineering business, and lead a multidisciplinary engineering function during an exciting period of expansion and innovation.
We have a great opportunity for an Engineering Manager to lead Mechanical, Electronic, Software and Physics/technical teams within an R&D and product development environment. You'll deliver technically robust, manufacturable and commercially viable solutions across a diverse product and project portfolio, aligning engineering delivery with business objectives, customer requirements and manufacturing capability.
Key respons
Lead, mentor and resource multidisciplinary engineering teams
Oversee delivery from concept through manufacture and installation
Run cross-functional design reviews and technical decision-making
Ensure designs are safe, compliant, practical and manufacturable
Identify technical risks and implement mitigation actions
Improve engineering processes, documentation standards and governance
Contribute to engineering strategy, planning, budgeting and proposals
Ensure technical qualification of manufactured/installed products
What we're looking
Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics or similar
Significant experience in multidisciplinary engineering environments
Proven leadership of engineering teams and complex project delivery
Strong product development life cycle knowledge
Excellent communication, organisation and stakeholder management
Desirable
ISO9001 design/development experience (or similar)
Background in instrumentation, precision engineering, or advanced technology
Systems engineering, engineering change control/configuration management
Experience transitioning R&D into production
Based on-site in Mid Kent, working full-time, 40 hours per week Monday-Friday. Occasional client travel may be required as part of this role. The company offers a great pension plan, with a performance related bonus structure, company sick pay, life assurance, a good holiday. They invest in their personnel and have a good training & development plan