Senior Engineering Manager

Electus Recruitment Solutions; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 27%

Monthly car allowance

Pension contributions up to 14%

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Electus Recruitment Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership across manufacturing engineering activities within a defence and aerospace environment. You will act as a manufacturing technical authority, ensuring production systems meet current operational requirements while supporting future developments.

The role is based in the Greater Manchester area with hybrid working (2-3 days onsite).

Qualifications

• An engineering degree or a recognised technical apprenticeship, supported by an HNC or equivalent qualification.
• Significant technical experience within manufacturing engineering or production environments.
• Proven experience leading complex engineering projects and managing risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead Spiral Development activities from a manufacturing engineering perspective, ensuring effective coordination across relevant business units and engineering functions.
• Manage manufacturing obsolescence activities, identifying technical risks and coordinating appropriate engineering solutions.
• Lead industrialisation activities associated with project product gate reviews, ensuring manufacturing readiness and compliance with technical requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance manufacturing efficiency, production capability and operational performance.
• Lead engineering activities associated with production rate increases, ensuring manufacturing systems and processes can achieve required output levels.
• Manage manufacturing capital expenditure requirements, including investment planning, funding submissions and project-level expenditure.
• Oversee the preparation, validation and certification of production systems, supporting the transition from development into series production.
• Identify and manage technical and manufacturing risks, developing appropriate mitigation strategies to maintain programme delivery.
• Maintain effective technical relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to resolve engineering challenges and support project objectives.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Risk management

Continuous improvement

Industrialisation

Production planning

Education

Engineering degree or recognised apprenticeship with HNC

Job description

Summary

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership across manufacturing engineering activities within a complex defence and aerospace environment. The successful candidate will act as a manufacturing technical authority, ensuring production systems are technically capable of meeting current operational requirements while supporting future manufacturing developments. The role involves leading manufacturing engineering projects, overseeing industrialisation activities and managing technical changes to ensure production capabilities remain efficient, reliable and aligned with long-term programme requirements.

Where you will be Based

The role is based in the Greater Manchester area and offers hybrid-working (2-3 days onsite). This is a permanent, full-time position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Spiral Development activities from a manufacturing engineering perspective, ensuring effective coordination across relevant business units and engineering functions.


• Manage manufacturing obsolescence activities, identifying technical risks and coordinating appropriate engineering solutions.


• Lead industrialisation activities associated with project product gate reviews, ensuring manufacturing readiness and compliance with technical requirements.


• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance manufacturing efficiency, production capability and operational performance.


• Lead engineering activities associated with production rate increases, ensuring manufacturing systems and processes can achieve required output levels.


• Manage manufacturing capital expenditure requirements, including investment planning, funding submissions and project-level expenditure.


• Oversee the preparation, validation and certification of production systems, supporting the transition from development into series production.


• Identify and manage technical and manufacturing risks, developing appropriate mitigation strategies to maintain programme delivery.


• Maintain effective technical relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to resolve engineering challenges and support project objectives.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• A relevant engineering degree or a recognised technical engineering apprenticeship, supported by an HNC or equivalent qualification.


• Significant technical experience within manufacturing engineering or production environments.


• Proven experience leading complex engineering projects, including technical development, manufacturing improvements or obsolescence management.


• Strong understanding of manufacturing systems, production and industrialisation processes.


• Experience managing technical risks, resolving complex engineering issues and implementing effective engineering solutions.


• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams and senior management.


• Demonstrable ability to provide technical leadership and contribute to strategic manufacturing decisions.

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience within the defence, aerospace or another highly regulated engineering sector.


• Experience leading Spiral Development programmes or managing iterative engineering changes.


• Knowledge of production system validation, certification and manufacturing readiness processes.


• Experience managing manufacturing capital investment and production capacity improvements.

Salary and Benefits

The position offers a base salary in the region of £70,000, depending on experience.

• Annual performance bonus of up to 27% of base salary.


• Monthly car allowance.


• Combined employer and employee pension contributions of up to 14%.


• Company-funded private medical insurance.

Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be eligible to obtain SC security clearance.