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Location: Stevenage
Salary: Competitive (DOE)
A well-established electronics manufacturing organisation is seeking a Production Engineering Manager to lead its Production Engineering and Drawing Office teams, driving operational excellence across all manufacturing activities. This is a key leadership position responsible for ensuring efficient product assembly, successful introduction of new products, and continuous improvement of engineering processes, documentation, and production capability.
The role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, people management, customer focus, and project leadership. You will oversee the production team ranging from senior engineers to junior and assistant-level staff while acting as a central point of coordination between production, customers, and internal stakeholders.
This is a hands-on management role within a fast-paced, highly technical environment, where attitude, adaptability, and communication are just as important as engineering ability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Production Engineering and Drawing Office teams, managing performance, workload, and KPI reporting.
- Provide hands-on production engineering support, improving manufacturability, documentation, tooling, and layout efficiency.
- Own the full NPI process and act as the main customer-facing contact for engineering and build-related queries.
- Prepare assembly quotations, review customer documentation, and produce accurate build packs.
- Plan and prioritise engineering activities, supporting production schedules and ongoing project delivery.
- Drive continuous improvement across processes, quality, cost, and efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with all quality, safety, and environmental standards.
Essential
- Demonstrable experience managing a Production or Manufacturing Engineering team.
- Strong background in electronics manufacturing with a solid understanding of best practices, NPI, and production engineering methods.
- Proven leadership capability with experience developing junior team members.
- Excellent communication and customer-facing skills; able to handle customer queries with professionalism and clarity.
- Ability to plan, prioritise, and adapt to changing priorities in a high-mix, fast-moving environment.
- Experience working as part of, or contributing to, a senior leadership team.
- Evidence of successful continuous improvement initiatives with measurable outcomes.
- Strong ERP and computer literacy, with confidence using data to drive decisions.
- Positive attitude, adaptability, and resilience under pressure.
- Strong problem-solving abilities with commercial awareness.
- HND or higher in Electronic Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience in tooling design, ergonomic assessment, or layout optimisation.
- Training or certification in Lean, CI, Six Sigma, or related improvement methodologies.
