Design Manager

Wallace Hind Selection; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Salary Sacrifice for Electric Car

Job summary

Wallace Hind Selection is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Design Manager to lead the Drawing Office and a team of five Mechanical Design Engineers in the packaging machinery sector.

The role splits 50/50 between managing the team and hands-on design work, ensuring on-time delivery of new machines, upgrades, spares, and accurate drawings and BOMs, while coordinating with electrical, software, and manufacturing colleagues.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a mechanical design team in a packaging machinery environment.
• Proven ability to deliver drawings, BOMs and spares lists.
• Strong collaboration with electrical, software & controls and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Drawing Office and a team of five Mechanical Design Engineers.
• Spend 50% of time on people management and 50% on hands-on design work.
• Ensure delivery times and KPIs for new machines, upgrades and spare parts.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on design

Packaging machinery

Education

HNC Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

Job description

BASIC SALARY

up to £65,000

BENEFITS

• Annual Bonus
• Salary Sacrifice to purchase an Electric Car.

LOCATION

Office based in Bedford

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS

• Milton Keynes
• Northampton
• Cambridge
• Huntingdon
• St Neots
• Biggleswade

JOB DESCRIPTION

Mechanical Engineering Design Manager, Mechanical Design Engineer, Drawing Office Manager - packaging machinery, turnkey capital equipment, industrial equipment

As our Design Manager, you will be managing the companies Mechanical Design Engineering function (Drawing Office) and a team of 5 Mechanical Design Engineers. You will spend 50% of your time managing and leading the team, and 50% as a hands on Design Engineer.

You will be expected to achieve agreed delivery times & KPI`s on new machines, upgrades & spare parts, to create drawings, BOM`s & spares lists and will be expected to liaise effectively with the Electrical Design, Software & Controls and manufacturing teams.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• You WILL be an experienced Mechanical Engineering Design Manager (or Drawing Office Manager) or will be a very experienced Design Engineer looking to move into a management role.
• You WILL have specific experience of special purpose machinery and ideally of packaging machinery.
• You WILL be a qualified Mechanical Engineer to a minimum of HNC level.
• You WILL have experience of using SolidWorks &/or AutoCAD software.

THE COMPANY

A very well established and profitable British manufacturer of packaging machinery & turnkey lines supplying the food, chemical and pharmaceutical markets in the UK and worldwide.