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The Engineering Manager, a key member of the Senior Management Team, holds overall responsibility for equipment and building management across the site, supported by a team of managers and engineers. This role entails fostering inter-departmental relationships, managing and motivating engineering teams. The role will involve strategic planning, team leadership, and process improvement to ensure optimal productivity and efficiency.
Client Details
Our client is a prominent manufacturing site situated on the outskirts of Cardiff, the facility is recognised for its state-of-the-art production capabilities and its role in helping client companies bring their products to market efficiently and at scale.
Description
As the Engineering Manager you will be responsible for:
- Establish and maintain good and effective inter-departmental working relationships
- Management, development and motivation of direct and indirect reports within the engineering team
- Continuous monitoring of departmental business KPIs related to safety, quality, delivery, cost and people, ensuring the team is achieving targets and working towards surpassing them
- Enhance competitiveness through leading and driving continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out in accordance with company procedures and applicable regulations (COMAH site), including long term maintenance
- Define and deliver the long term strategy for the site in terms of maintenance & equipment investments
- Ensure the commissioning of new engineering projects (equipment, building work, …) is done safely, on time, on budget and with respect of company procedures and applicable regulations
- Ensure new products are well assessed and introduced from an engineering point of view (change parts requirements, CAPEX, technical solution to make the product) in partnership with the Industrialisation team
- Generate solutions through creative problem-solving
- Be accountable for delivering remedial results relating to HSE and Quality CAPAs
- Establish departmental long-term goals through forward-thinking
Profile
As the Engineering Manager you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Ideally Degree Qualified or equivalent in an Engineering or Chemical discipline.
- You will be a natural leader with your experience gained in high speed manufacturing environments.
- You will need to demonstrate experience of managing large engineering teams.
- Multidisciplinary engineering skills (electrical, process, mechanical).
- Has a rigorous approach towards enforcing discipline in the workplace.
- Has a proven experience of effective and creative problem-solving.
- Good team-building skills.
- Has the ability to embrace and drive change to ensure continuous improvement and competitive advantage.
- Experience in a COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazards) site is a advantage but not essential.
Job Offer
- A competitive salary, pension, car allowance.
- An attractive pension scheme.
- A supportive and collaborative company culture.
If you are an experienced Engineering Manager looking for a new challenge, we encourage you to apply today.
