Engineering Leader - Factory & Controls (French-Speaking)

UL Solutions; Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UL Solutions in France seeks an Engineering Leader – Factory & Controls to guide a high-performing European team. You will drive people leadership, technical direction and customer collaboration to deliver safe, compliant industrial solutions.

You’ll work with customers, sales and engineering peers to map project pipelines, prioritize work and ensure delivery quality across multiple locations. The role blends leadership, technical care and commercial awareness in a global matrix organization.

Qualifications

• University degree in business administration, management, engineering, or related field.
• Engineering or technical leadership experience over ~3 years with depth to understand team and customer challenges.
• People-first leadership style built on trust, empathy, coaching and accountability.
• Strong listening skills to get the best from highly experienced technical professionals.
• Commercial acumen with confidence speaking to customers and understanding engineering impact on the business.
• Strong customer-facing and networking skills to represent the organisation at meetings and industry events.
• Experience working with engineering projects, priorities and resource planning.
• Track record of delivering results and continuous improvement while maintaining quality.
• Ability to build relationships across functions, countries and cultures.
• Collaborative approach and ability to work in a matrixed, international organisation.
• Advanced French & English language skills are essential

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team across France and other countries.
• Set clear goals and give autonomy to deliver.
• Provide meaningful feedback, coaching and career development.
• Listen to the team and remove barriers to success.
• Represent UL Solutions in customer meetings, trade shows and networks.
• Manage team capacity and cross-functional alignment with project demands.
• Drive process improvements to strengthen quality, efficiency and financial performance.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Client engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

French & English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

At UL Solutions, our Factory & Controls team works with manufacturers behind the technologies that keep modern industry moving, including robotics, AMR, industrial machinery and industrial control panels.

We provide evaluation, testing and certification services for industrial equipment, machinery systems and factory automation technologies. Our work helps customers navigate national and international requirements, create clearer paths to global market access, and achieve their performance, safety and interoperability objectives.

We’re looking for an Engineering Leader – Factory & Controls to lead an established, high-performing engineering team across Europe.

This is a role that brings together people leadership, technical understanding and commercial awareness. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers, customers and the wider industry, building relationships, understanding emerging customer needs and ensuring our teams have the support and direction they need to deliver.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a high-performing team

• Lead, coach and support experienced engineers across France and other countries.
• Create an environment where people are trusted to use their expertise and take ownership.
• Set clear goals and expectations while giving people the autonomy to deliver.
• Provide meaningful feedback, coaching and career development.
• Listen to your team, understand what they need to succeed and help remove barriers.
• Build an engaged, collaborative culture across different locations.
• Lead positively through change and help the team adapt as our business and customers evolve.

Connect engineering with our customers

• Build strong relationships with customers and develop a genuine understanding of their technical and business needs.
• Work closely with Sales and other teams to understand the project pipeline, customer priorities and future opportunities.
• Gather customer feedback and turn it into practical actions that improve their experience.
• Provide guidance when customers or team members need support.
• Represent UL Solutions through customer meetings, industry associations, trade shows and other relevant networks.
• Build relationships externally that strengthen our understanding of the market and identify opportunities for growth.

Keep work moving

• Manage team capacity and capability, ensuring resources are aligned effectively with customer and project requirements.
• Work across functions to understand project scope, technical requirements and priorities.
• Support project handlers in delivering work in line with requirements, agreed scope and customer expectations.
• Identify and drive process improvements that strengthen quality, efficiency and financial performance.

Deliver results

• Maintain the strong performance of an established team while looking for opportunities to improve.
• Create accountability for individual and team goals without losing sight of collaboration and wellbeing.
• Balance customer experience, technical quality, delivery and commercial performance.
• Empower the team to identify opportunities that support sustainable growth.
• Build trusted relationships across UL Solutions and work effectively within a global, matrix organisation.

Qualifications

• University degree (equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree) in Business Administration, Management, Engineering or related field
• Engineering or technical leadership experience over approximately 3 years, with enough technical depth to understand the challenges your team and customers face.
• A people-first leadership style built around trust, empathy, coaching and accountability.
• Strong listening skills and the ability to get the best from highly experienced technical professionals.
• Commercial and business acumen, including confidence speaking with customers and understanding how engineering decisions affect the wider business.
• Strong customer-facing and networking skills, with the confidence to represent the organisation at customer meetings, industry events, trade shows or associations.
• Experience working with engineering projects, priorities and resource planning.
• A track record of delivering results and continuous improvement while maintaining quality.
• The ability to build relationships across functions, countries and cultures.
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to work successfully in a matrixed, international organisation.
• Advanced French & English language skills are essential

About Us

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.

About The Team

We work at the center of safety and sustainability — we’re helping to tackle the worst aspects of the global climate crisis with projects in electrical infrastructure, renewable energy and electrified transportation. Whether we’re helping customers make safer electric vehicle batteries or debating the impact of wind farms, we develop cutting-edge safety science. And we do it in some of the largest and best-equipped laboratories in the world. We’re always looking for people to help us explore, experiment and advance ideas that change the way the world works. Join our team and help create a cleaner, safer future for all.