TMS Sustaining Team Manager

Edwards Vacuum; Clevedon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture of trust and accountability

Lifelong learning and career growth

Innovation powered by people

Comprehensive compensation and benefits

Health and well-being

Job summary

Edwards Vacuum in Clevedon, UK, is seeking a Thermal Management Solutions sustaining engineer to lead a multidisciplinary team. You’ll drive post-launch activities, resolve issues, and manage product lifecycle across multiple lines to meet customer and business goals.

Collaborating closely with Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Customer Support, you will champion reliability, compliance, cost‑effectiveness and continuous improvement using field data.

Qualifications

• Degree in Science/Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ years’ relevant experience.
• Proven leadership of engineering/technical teams.
• Experience across product lifecycle; post-launch support a plus.
• Strong cross-functional product support and process-improvement skills.
• Familiar with CE/UL certifications, cost management, and design/lifecycle changes.
• Strong organisation, communication, scheduling, and estimating skills.
• Fluent English; proficient in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary sustaining engineering team
• Manage team workload, priorities, capacity, and resourcing across multiple product lines
• Own post‑launch sustaining activities, including issue resolution, design updates, and lifecycle management
• Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, and change management
• Ensure products remain reliable, compliant, and cost‑effective throughout their lifecycle
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Customer Support
• Champion customer experience and continuous product improvement using field data and feedback
• Feed product and app feature insights into software and NPI teams
• Ensure compliance with safety, regulatory, quality, and internal standards
• Improve sustaining processes, tools, KPIs, and drive continuous improvement initiatives

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Estimation skills

Team development

English fluency

Communication

Scheduling

Education

Degree in Science/Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Your role

An exciting opportunity to join the Thermal Management Solutions (TMS) segment of Edwards business during a huge transition and period of growth. Focused on penetrating our existing Edwards customers with differentiated technology and helping shape and manage an already well-defined future roadmap of innovative products.

Edwards has strong clear leadership position in pumps & abatement but is now looking at opportunity to gain share in TMS products. This role is a critical role within the team to drive and establish the TMS sustaining team that ensures released products continue to meet customer expectations, business objectives, and maintain the products through the rest of their product lifecycle. Reliability, compliance adherence, cost effectiveness, and quality are core to those expectations.

This role is a critical role within the team to drive and establish the TMS sustaining team that ensures released products continue to meet customer expectations, business objectives, and maintain the products through the rest of their product lifecycle. Reliability, compliance adherence, cost‑effective throughout their lifecycle are core to the expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary sustaining engineering team
• Manage team workload, priorities, capacity, and resourcing across multiple product lines
• Own post‑launch sustaining activities, including issue resolution, design updates, and lifecycle management
• Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, and change management
• Ensure products remain reliable, compliant, and cost‑effective throughout their lifecycle
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Customer Support
• Champion customer experience and continuous product improvement using field data and feedback
• Feed product and app feature insights into software and NPI teams
• Ensure compliance with safety, regulatory, quality, and internal standards
• Improve sustaining processes, tools, KPIs, and drive continuous improvement initiatives

Do You Have

• Degree in Science/Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ years’ relevant experience.
• Proven leadership of engineering/technical teams.
• Experience across product lifecycle; post‑launch support a plus.
• Strong cross‑functional product support and process‑improvement skills.
• Advantageous: thermal systems, chemical handling, semiconductor industry.
• Familiar with certifications (CE/UL), cost management, and design/lifecycle changes.
• Strong organisation, communication, scheduling, and estimating skills.
• Fluent English; proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Strong team player; able to plan team size/skills effectively.
• Based in Clevedon, UK; minimal travel (approx. one trip/year).

To succeed, you will need

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Job location

This role requires you to work on-site at our Product Company in Clevedon, UK. You will be part of a dynamic team and enjoy the benefits of face-to-face collaboration.

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