Engineering Manager

Stirling Warrington Limited; Ledbury; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus

Pension and benefits

Job summary

Stirling Warrington Limited in Ledbury is seeking an Engineering Manager who combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering on the shop floor. You will guide a multi-disciplinary team, own asset reliability, and drive maintenance and capital project delivery.

The role emphasizes visible leadership, accountability, and a clear plan to improve safety, reliability and cost efficiency, with a competitive salary (£80-90k) and benefits.

Qualifications

• Significant engineering leadership in heavy manufacturing or process industries.
• Proven track record of improving reliability and delivering capital projects.
• Hands-on approach with strong shop-floor presence.
• Strategic thinker who influences safety, cost and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site’s engineering function through managers and teams.
• Drive asset reliability and preventative maintenance culture.
• Oversee CAPEX projects shaping the site’s future.
• Ensure health and safety leadership and performance.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hands-on

Team development

Commercial mindset

Change management

Job description

Engineering Manager

£80-90,000 plus car allowance, bonus, pension, benefits.
Ledbury

We’re looking for a real leader, not just a manager

This role is about the person. We, a well-established heavy manufacturing business, needs a Senior Engineering Manager who leads from the front: someone who’s out on the shop floor, rolls their sleeves up and earns respect by being visible, approachable and decisive.

You’ll join a great senior leadership team who are close-knit, ambitious and backing each other to take the business forward. There’s so much potential here, and the right person will play a huge part in unlocking it.

We can evidence real success stories within the business who’ve progressed over years and decades with the business. We’re a really good team, in need of leadership within Engineering.

What’s on offer

• Strong salary, Car allowance.
• Bonus. Double Digit Pension.
• A seat alongside a strong, supportive senior leadership team
• A business with a real plan, good team and potential, and the chance to leave your mark on it

Who you are

• A genuine leader.People want to follow you. You set high standards, back your team and bring the best out of them
• Hands-on.You’re comfortable in the office, but you’re most at home on the shop floor. When there’s a problem, you’re there
• A builder of teams.You’ve led leaders before and enjoy developing people as much as fixing machines
• A positive force for change.You bring energy, accountability and a “find a way” attitude, and you take people with you
• Commercially sharp.You understand how engineering drives the bottom line

The role

Reporting to the General Manager, you’ll lead the site’s engineering function through a team of managers and a large multi-disciplined engineering and maintenance team. You’ll own:

• Asset reliability, and moving the site to a planned and preventative maintenance culture
• Capex projects that shape the site’s future
• Root-cause problem solving that stops issues coming back
• Health and safety leadership, plus performance against safety, reliability, quality and cost

What you’ll bring

• Significant engineering leadership experience in heavy manufacturing, process or industrial environments
• A track record of improving reliability and delivering capital projects
• Experience leading change and building high-performing teams