Engineering Manager EMEA

STERIS; Swindon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

STERIS is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead EO site engineering teams across Europe, ensuring reliability, safety, and continuous improvement. The role focuses on modernizing plants, budgeting CAPEX/OPEX, and driving data-driven decisions while coordinating with suppliers and site managers.

The position requires a BSc in Engineering or equivalent experience, 7–10 years in lieu, and full driving license. Based in the UK with global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Leadership and people-management experience in a regulated environment.
• Strong commitment to safety and quality.
• Customer-focused with ability to balance competing priorities.
• Proven track record in driving continuous improvement and lean initiatives.
• Effective communicator able to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the EO site engineering teams across multiple sites to improve reliability and availability.
• Drive plant modernization initiatives and mitigate obsolescence risks.
• Develop CAPEX and OPEX plans and monitor budgets.
• Support quality performance improvements and safety culture initiatives.
• Implement data-driven monitoring and performance tracking systems.
• Oversee maintenance strategies, spare parts policy, and supplier coordination.
• Collaborate with maintenance and operations managers to minimise disruption during engineering work.
• Champion standardization and lean practices across sites.

Skills

Leadership

Integrity

Safety

Customer First

Continuous Improvement

Risk Awareness

Communication

Innovation

Calm under Pressure

Attention to Detail

Education

BSc in Engineering or equivalent

Job description

HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Do you want to spend your working time making a positive difference to the world around you? Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries, and many more? Do you care about keeping patients and people safe? If so, then a career with Steris AST as an Engineering Manager could be a great fit for you.

About You

HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Do you want to spend your working time making a positive difference to the world around you? Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries, and many more? Do you care about keeping patients and people safe? If so, then a career with Steris AST as an Engineering Manager could be a great fit for you.

About Us

At Steris AST we are the trusted experts in technology-neutral sterilization services including radiation and gas modalities.

We offer electron beam, gamma, X-ray, ethylene oxide and vaporized hydrogen peroxide technologies for the purpose of product sterilization. Whether that product be a single use medical device, consumables in a hospital environment, cosmetics and toiletries, or industrial products, we make sure everything that makes its way to an end user is safe for use or consumption.

This role will be specifically focussed on our Ethylene Oxide sites across the EMEA region, and can be based anywhere in mainland Europe.

What You Will Do

• Work as member of the EMEA Engineering Managers team supporting EO sites to improve plant and equipment reliability, maximize availability, and reduce downtime and non-conformances.
• Drive initiatives for plant modernization and mitigation of obsolescence risks
• Support the development of CAPEX and OPEX plans.
• Contribute to Quality performance improvements
• Promote Health & Safety initiatives to ensure safe and compliant operations.
• Implement monitoring and performance tracking solutions to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Supervise site engineering budgets, capital investments, and expenses for the relevant field (contracts, parts, services).
• Define and oversee the implementation of suitable preventive and predictive maintenance activities, based on field data collection and analysis.
• Support sites in defining and implementing corrective and improvement actions.
• Liaise with site maintenance and operations managers to minimize operational disruption during engineering and maintenance activities.
• Ensure the development of a standardized spare parts policy and availability across sites.
• Act as the point of contact between sites and major/critical technical suppliers and contractors; facilitate their activities.
• Propose and implement technology innovations
• Ensure safe engineering practices by development of an effective safety culture, enforcement of safety practices in compliance to internal and external requirements and regulations.
• Ensure continuous improvement of maintenance processes and activities in line with STERIS world class safety objectives and the Quality management system.
• Ensure that the Engineering team operates within and towards the published STERIS Corporate vision and global objectives, including LEAN, 5S, Sustainability and One Team One Goal strategies.
• Apply to STERIS Values, culture and ethos managing the business, it’s Customers and staff.

Required Experience

• Bsc in Engineering or 7-10 years of experience in lieu
• Full valid drivers license

Skills

• Leadership qualities (leading by example)
• High degree of trust, integrity and honesty
• Acute awareness of the importance of safety to the business
• Willing to go the extra mile for our Customers (Customer First, always)
• Good understanding of the principle of continuous improvement
• Well developed understanding of risk and risk avoidance
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written)
• Good understanding of technology and innovation. Some exposure to the industrial sterilization systems would be a distinct advantage
• Familiarity with high regulated industries would be a distinct advantage
• Good innovation attitude
• Able to remain calm under pressure and make rational decisions
• Attention to detail

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com.

STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.