Technical & Product Leader – Fire & Acoustic Doors

SRS Recruitment Solutions; West Grinstead; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plan

Pension and life cover

25 days' holiday

EV car scheme

Job summary

SRS Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Technical & Product Manager for a fire- and acoustic-rated doorset manufacturer in the South of England. You will run governance, deliver BS-to-EN transition workstreams and lead a ten-person technical team through significant change while ensuring compliance and audit readiness.

With a background in regulated construction products and ISO 9001, you will coordinate document control, change control and certification activities, providing fast technical

Qualifications

• Strong experience in technical governance, product stewardship or technical leadership in a production environment.
• Background in fire doors or other regulated construction products, with knowledge of fire door testing and certification, technical files and certification-body requirements.
• Hands‑on experience implementing and running document control or a quality management system, such as ISO 9001.
• Good understanding of product liability, compliance risk, change control and technical documentation.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary technical teams and coaching people, including those new to formal systems.
• Proven track record of leading a team through significant change in systems and processes while keeping the team intact.
• Degree or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or a related discipline.
• Desirable: supplier technical assurance or component validation experience.

Responsibilities

• Run the technical governance system day to day, ensuring every product, document and technical decision is accurate, controlled, traceable and audit-ready.
• Deliver product-level workstreams for BS-to-EN transition and drive change across the team of ten.
• Provide fast, reliable technical support to Commercial, Production and customers and embed product/certification knowledge.
• Own document control, change control and internal audit processes, coordinating certification audits and test programmes.
• Run the enquiry service and manage supplier technical compliance and evidence requirements.
• Maintain the technical risk register and escalate issues with root-cause analysis.
• Monitor regulatory developments and brief the Technical & Product Director.

Skills

Technical governance

Product leadership

Fire door knowledge

Document control

Quality management

Regulatory compliance

Team leadership

Change management

Supplier qualification

Education

Degree in Mechanical Eng./Product Design/Manufacturing Eng.

Job description

SRS Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Technical & Product Manager for a fire- and acoustic-rated doorset manufacturer in the South of England. You will run governance, deliver BS-to-EN transition workstreams and lead a ten-person technical team through significant change while ensuring compliance and audit readiness.

With a background in regulated construction products and ISO 9001, you will coordinate document control, change control and certification activities, providing fast technical