Senior Manager, Engineering

STERIS; Swindon; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

STERIS is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Ebeam/X‑ray engineering and maintenance across the EMEA region. You will steer the technical strategy, manage budgets and contracts, and develop a regional team of Engineering Managers to drive reliability improvements, safety, and continuous improvement.

The role requires a strong leadership background in multinational settings, a Masters degree or extensive experience, and a demonstrated ability to influence across functions and geographies.

Qualifications

• Masters degree or 10–15 years proven experience in engineering leadership.
• Proven ability to lead multicultural, multinational teams.
• Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Commitment to safety and continuous improvement in line with corporate practices.

Responsibilities

• Establish and drive engineering and maintenance strategy for Ebeam/X‑ray technology.
• Lead the regional Radiation Engineering Managers and allocate resources.
• Oversee budgets, contracts, and supplier relationships for engineering services.
• Collaborate with US and APAC teams to share best practices and drive improvements.
• Promote safety culture and ensure compliance with health, safety and quality requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Attention to detail

Customer focus

Strategic thinking

Education

Masters degree or 10/15 years experience

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

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 E-Beam sites across the EMEA region, and can be based anywhere in mainland Europe.

What You Will Do

• Establish and drive Ebeam-X-rays engineering and maintenance strategy in line with STERIS targets and programs.
• Work as part of the EMEA leadership team across all Ebeam and X-rays locations in the region.
• Promote and facilitate plans for plants reliability improvement, availability maximization and downtime reduction.
• Responsible and/or accountable for Ebeam/X-rays engineering and maintenance budget, capital and operational expenditures, quality performances and Health and Safety.
• Manage Supplier Commercial relationships and Contracts
• Establish, lead and develop the team of Regional Radiation Engineering Managers; allocate resources and assign specific duties to achieve pre-determined technical and business objectives for the business in the EMEA region.
• Partner with equivalent roles across the US and APAC organization, share experience and best practises.

Duties - cont'd

• Define and control Engineering budget, capital investments and expenses for field of competence (contracts, parts, services)
• Manage all human resources matters for Engineering team, including employee performance management and employee development
• Put in place suitable service contracts and spare parts procurement / storage policies
• Lead technology innovations
• Facilitate information and engineering know-how sharing across sites
• Provide leadership to ensure safe engineering practices by development of an effective safety culture, enforcement of safety practices in compliance to internal and external requirements and regulations.
• Provide leadership to 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.

Education Degree

Required Experience

• Valid driver’s licence
• Masters degree or 10/15 years experience
• Proven technical capability
• Proven experience in structured, multicultural, multinational companies

Skills

Preferred Experience

• Proven leadership qualities (leading by example)
• High degree of trust, integrity and honesty
• Acute awareness of the importance of safety to the business
• Familiarity with high-regulated 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)
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to influence people not part of the team
• Good understanding of technology and innovation.
• Exposure to the industrial irradiation systems would be a distinct advantage
• 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.