Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Smith & Nephew; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical technology company in the UK is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer - CMO to lead strategic initiatives and ensure compliance within the manufacturing portfolio. The role requires proven engineering experience in a regulated environment and advanced technical skills for project management. This position provides opportunities for hybrid working and offers comprehensive benefits including a generous bonus, health plans, and work-life balance.

Benefits

Generous annual bonus

Flexible vacation and time off

Private health and dental plans

Hybrid working model

Discounts on gyms and fitness clubs

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering within a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Strong skills in process validation and project planning.
• Ability to lead teams independently with a strategic mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of strategic projects across CMO portfolio.
• Manage changes ensuring regulatory compliance and documentation quality.
• Provide cross-discipline engineering support across the CMO network.

Skills

Process validation

Problem solving

Change control

Project planning tools

Cross-functional team leadership

Education

Advanced degree in engineering or science

Job description

Overview

Life. Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.

Join us at Smith+Nephew as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer - CMO and help shape the future of medical device manufacturing. This is your opportunity to lead strategies and projects that protect and enhance our Advanced Wound Management franchise through our Contract Manufacturing Organisation, ensuring our products and processes stand strong against disruption.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development and implementation of key strategic projects across our CMO portfolio of products & manufacturing sites.
• Managing complex changes through the change control process while ensuring regulatory compliance and documentation quality.
• Providing cross discipline engineering support across the CMO network, developing and driving engineering ownership with key suppliers to sustain challenges and negate impact to customers.
• Develop a robust platform to deliver product value, executing projects to achieve business benefit.
• Delivering key project updates to senior stakeholders to ensure our CMO roadmap is delivered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering within a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Advanced degree in engineering or science, or equivalent experience.
• Strong skills in process validation, problem solving/root cause, change control and project planning tools.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and work independently with a strategic mindset.

Why You

Success in this role means being a strategic thinker and a hands-on problem solver. You’ll need to bring deep expertise in engineering and a passion for continuous improvement. You’ll be confident managing large-scale projects and inspiring others to deliver excellence.

Benefits & Perks

• Inclusion and Belonging: Committed to welcoming, celebrating and thriving on inclusion and belonging. Learn more about life at Smith+Nephew on our website.
• Your Future: Generous annual bonus and pension schemes; Save As You Earn share options.
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible vacation and time off, paid holidays and paid volunteering hours.
• Your Wellbeing: Private health and dental plans, healthcare cash plans, income protection, life assurance and more.
• Flexibility: Hybrid working model (for most professional roles).
• Training: Hands-on, team-customised, mentorship.
• Extra Perks: Discounts on gyms and fitness clubs, salary sacrifice bicycle and car schemes and many other employee discounts.
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