Engineering Manager

Outsource UK; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Outsource UK is seeking an Engineering Team Manager to lead a multidisciplinary sustaining engineering team within a global engineering and manufacturing business.

You will manage workload, priorities, and resourcing across multiple product lines, owning post-launch sustaining activities, lifecycle management, and driving root cause analysis and change management to ensure reliability, compliance, and cost effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Degree in Science/Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years’ relevant experience.
• Proven leadership of engineering/technical teams.
• Experience across product lifecycle; post launch support a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary sustaining engineering team.
• Manage team workload, priorities, capacity, and resourcing across multiple product lines.
• Own post launch sustaining activities, including issue resolution, design updates, and lifecycle management.
• Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, and change management.
• Ensure products remain reliable, compliant, and cost effective throughout their lifecycle.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Sustaining engineering

Root cause analysis

Change management

Product lifecycle

Education

Degree in Science/Engineering

Job description

We’re working with a global engineering and manufacturing business seeking a Engineering Team Manager to lead one of the clients key business divisions.

This is a management role where you will lead a multidisciplinary team to ensure released products continue to meet customer expectations, business objectives, whilst maintaining products through the rest of their product lifecycle. You and your team will have a real focus around product reliability, compliance adherence, cost effectiveness, and quality.

Key responsibilities required for the Engineering Team Manager role:

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary sustaining engineering team
• Manage team workload, priorities, capacity, and resourcing across multiple product lines
• Own post launch sustaining activities, including issue resolution, design updates, and lifecycle management
• Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, and change management
• Ensure products remain reliable, compliant, and cost effective throughout their lifecycle

Experience required for the Engineering Team Manager role:

• Degree in Science/Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ years’ relevant experience.
• Proven leadership of engineering/technical teams.
• Experience across product lifecycle; post launch support a plus.
• Strong cross functional product support and process improvement skills.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Engineering Manager looking to take ownership of impactful projects and manage multi-disciplinary teams within a well-established, innovation-led, growing organisation.