Production Engineering Manager

ABB Schweiz AG; Stonehouse; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a senior manager to lead their engineering team in Stonehouse. This role involves ensuring safety compliance, guiding team performance, and participating in project management while providing innovative engineering solutions. The position offers substantial growth opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitively contributory pension scheme

Flexible benefits scheme

Company car

Private medical cover

Generous bonus scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a senior management role within manufacturing.
• Knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering practices.
• Experience managing across multi-site departments.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers to deliver quality solutions.
• Ensure compliance with safety requirements.
• Participate in defining the annual budget.

Skills

Leadership

Motivation

Problem Solving

Communication

Project Management

Education

Degree in Engineering

Job description

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

Local Division Manager & Site Manager

Manage a team of engineers to deliver high quality, cost effective and timely engineering solutions to customers. Formulate plan, allocate resources to meet the agreed contractual and financial targets. Ensure team's compliance with standard processes, procedures, practices, and safety requirements.

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact.

Work model: #onsite at our Stonehouse site.

Our Team Dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

What’s in it for you?

We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Reinforces and maintains a culture of health and safety in all aspects of the production environment
• Ensures that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates, coaches and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR polices and drives performance.
• Works with the R&D to implement NPI projects in line with the prescribed NPI process.
• Provides support to production in achieving volume, quality and delivery targets.
• Carries out continuous improvement activities to support production using problem solving techniques such as 6 Sigma.
• Supports evaluation of new manufacturing technology
• Actively participates in communities of practice with industrial engineering teams from other factories.
• Participates in defining the annual budget for area of responsibility and is accountable for managing performance against agreed financial targets and constraints.

Qualifications / Experience for the Role

• Outstanding leadership and motivation skills to guide the engineering team to achieve high performance.
• 5+ years of working experience working in a senior management position within a manufacturing environment, or other relevant industry.
• Experience of managing a department across a multi-site organization.
• In-depth knowledge/understanding of engineering practices and processes.
• A proven background in engineering with an understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering.
• Good problem solving/contingency planning skills with ability to find quick, innovative, and practical solutions.
• Excellent consultancy, communication, delegation, and relationship management skills.
• Project management skills.

Benefits

ABB offers a fullrangeofbenefitstohelpyouthriveatworkandbeyond.

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)
• Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous employee referral scheme
• Company car
• Private medical cover
• Generous bonus scheme

For the 5th year running ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

More about us

The Measurement & Analytics Division is among the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of smart instrumentation and analyzers, working at the heart of industrial digital transformation. The Measurement & Analytics Division’s portfolio consists of analyzers measuring compositions of gases and liquids; instrumentation measuring process variables such as temperature, pressure, flow, and level; force measurement solutions measuring parameters such as flatness, thickness, and tension; and advanced digital solutions for device management, device health check and predictive maintenance.

The Measurement & Analytics Division serves key industries such as oil and gas, chemical, water and wastewater, power, hydrogen, batteries, as well as the marine industry. The Division enables the optimization of industrial processes by providing and analyzing data collected from sensing and smart measurement devices. Parameters such as emission levels and production inputs are measured by providing ‘before’ and ‘after’ values, enabling efficient operations and environmental sustainability through measurement.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. #Runwhatrunstheworld

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.