Engineering Manager jobs in United Kingdom
Fire Systems Service Manager
Fire and Security Careers
Fire Alarm Service Manager: Lead Team & Safety (SE London)
Fire and Security Careers
Business Development Manager (Engineering)
Office Angels
Discover more opportunities than anywhere else. Find more jobs nowElectrical Supervisor
Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.
Connect with headhunters to apply for similar jobsFacilities Maintenance Supervisor (Technical Progression)
Rise Technical Recruitment
Senior Controls and Commissioning Engineer
Todd Hayes
RMR Engineering Project Lead – UK & Ireland Airports
Vanderlande
Engagement Manager: Engineering & Digital Delivery Lead
Capgemini
Engineering Business Development Manager — Growth & Impact
Office Angels
RMR Engineering Project Lead – UK & Ireland
Vanderlande
Program Manager - Engineering & Manufacturing NPD Lead
AWD online
Interim Engineering PM: Lead Capex Projects in FMCG
Staffline Group PLC
Engineering Facilities PM - Hospitality (Bahrain)
COREcruitment
Mechanical Test Lab Manager
Job summary
A global manufacturer in South Wales is seeking a Mechanical Test Lab Manager to lead a test and development team. The role involves planning testing activities, managing team performance, and ensuring laboratory compliance. Ideal candidates will have a Mechanical Engineering background along with relevant test development experience. This position offers a salary between £50,000 - £60,000 and a comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Mechanical Engineering education.
- Relevant experience within Development / Test.
- Familiarity with data acquisition systems.
- Desirable: knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, basic PLC programming.
- Safety-conscious, organised, and confident in structured problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Planning and coordinating testing activities for prototypes.
- Leading and managing a team and developing capability.
- Designing test equipment, ensuring compliance.
- Running and overseeing various test activities.
- Producing test plans, procedures, reports, and maintenance schedules.
Skills
Yolk Recruitment is exclusively partnered with a global manufacturer to recruit an Engineering Test Lab Manager for their R&D facility in South East Wales. This is a key leadership role, managing a small test and development team and ensuring the laboratory delivers safe, accurate and timely results to support new product development, prototyping, validation and customer projects.
- Planning and coordinating testing activities for prototypes, validation and customer programmes.
- Leading and managing a team, allocating work and developing capability.
- Designing or adapting test equipment and fixtures, specifying datalogging systems and ensuring all equipment is maintained, calibrated and compliant.
- Running and overseeing test activities – force, pressure, environmental etc.
- Producing documentation including test plans, procedures, reports, production test specs and maintenance schedules.
- Supporting production, sales, quality and customer teams with data and expertise.
- Identifying future equipment needs and improvements to lab capability.
- Promoting a safety-first culture and driving continuous improvement in the lab.
- Collaborating with wider R&D departments, DFMEA, DVP and varied problem solving.
- Mechanical Engineering education.
- Relevant experience within Development / Test.
- Familiarity with data acquisition systems.
- Desirable – knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, basic PLC programming. Training can be provided.
- Safety-conscious, organised, and confident in structured problem-solving.
- Salary in the region of £50,000 - £60,000.
- Excellent benefits package including pension, holidays and wider perks.
- A role with scope to shape the future capability of Test activities onsite.
- Development opportunities within a secure, international manufacturer.
Are you up to the challenge? If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in this role apply now!
Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.