Manufacturing Engineering Lead: NPI & Lean Excellence

Unipart Technologies Group; Sefton; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Pension

Bonus

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Wellbeing support

Flexible benefits including cycle to\n

Job summary

Unipart Technologies Group is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Manager for the Southport site. You will lead the manufacturing engineering function and the Toolroom, setting strategy and driving safe, capable, and efficient processes to enable operational excellence and growth.

You will manage a team of 6 engineers, oversee short-batch NPI, and drive continuous improvement using Unipart Way lean practices. Strong SPC, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical or Electronics Engineering required.
• Proven people leadership experience in manufacturing/production engineering.
• Experience in NPI, industrialisation projects and short-batch manufacturing.
• Strong Lean, SPC, root-cause problem solving and technical reporting skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership: define site manufacturing engineering roadmap and standards.
• People Leadership: coach and develop a team of 6 engineers.
• Process & NPI Development: lead short-batch NPI and process capability analyses.
• Operational Excellence: drive CI using lean tools and root-cause investigations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: guide design, quality, procurement, customers and suppliers.

Skills

People leadership

NPI

Lean manufacturing

SPC

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder influence

Education

Mechanical or Electronics Engineering degree

Tools

MTM (Methods-Time Measurement)

Process Engineering tools

Job description

Unipart Technologies Group is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Manager for the Southport site. You will lead the manufacturing engineering function and the Toolroom, setting strategy and driving safe, capable, and efficient processes to enable operational excellence and growth.

You will manage a team of 6 engineers, oversee short-batch NPI, and drive continuous improvement using Unipart Way lean practices. Strong SPC, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration are essential.