Engineering Manager

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to to join a growing, engineering business, and lead a multidisciplinary engineering function during an exciting period of expansion and innovation.

The successful candidate will lead Mechanical, Electronic, Software and Physics/technical teams within an R&D and product development environment. You'll deliver technically robust, manufacturable and commercially viable solutions across a diverse product and project portfolio, aligning engineering delivery with business objectives, customer

requirements and manufacturing capability. This role is not a Maintenance lead role, the candidate will be engineering new products and taking them to the market. The

key responsibilities are as follows

Lead, mentor and resource multidisciplinary engineering teams

Oversee delivery from concept through manufacture and installation

Run cross-functional design reviews and technical decision-making

Ensure designs are safe, compliant, practical and manufacturable

Identify technical risks and implement mitigation actions

Improve engineering processes, documentation standards and governance

Contribute to engineering strategy, planning, budgeting and proposals

Ensure technical qualification of manufactured/installed products

What we're looking for:-

Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics or similar

Significant experience in multidisciplinary engineering environments

Proven leadership of engineering teams and complex project delivery

Strong product development life cycle knowledge

Excellent communication, organisation and stakeholder management

Desirable

ISO9001 design/development experience (or similar)

Background in instrumentation, precision engineering, or advanced technology

Systems engineering, engineering change control/configuration management

Experience transitioning R&D into production

Based on-site in Mid Kent, working full-time, 40 hours per week Monday-Friday. Occasional client travel may be required as part of this role. The company offers a great pension plan, with a performance related bonus structure, company sick pay, life assurance, a good holiday. They invest in their personnel and have a good training & development plan