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Head of Engineering and Manufacturing Support
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Posted:
20 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
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Application Deadline:
17 August 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
A leading manufacturing organisation is seeking an experienced Engineering Executive / Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Engineering Maintenance and Toolroom functions within a high-performance manufacturing environment.
This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity suited to a technically strong hands-on leader with extensive experience in discrete manufacturing environments. The successful candidate will combine engineering governance manufacturing engineering expertise maintenance and reliability leadership and factory-floor operational support capability.
This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity suited to a technically strong hands-on leader with extensive experience in discrete manufacturing environments. The successful candidate will combine engineering governance manufacturing engineering expertise maintenance and reliability leadership and factory-floor operational support capability.
Key Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have exposure to:
This opportunity is best suited to candidates with a strong engineering-led manufacturing background.
Candidates from the following backgrounds are unlikely to be suitable:
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in due course. If you are not contacted please consider your application unsuccessful.
- Lead the Engineering Maintenance and Toolroom functions
- Drive engineering governance technical standards and reliability systems
- Support manufacturing operations through strong engineering leadership
- Oversee asset care maintenance strategy and continuous improvement initiatives
- Manage CAPEX projects and engineering improvement programmes
- Ensure effective manufacturing support engineering and technical problem-solving
- Lead and develop engineering managers maintenance teams and technical staff
- Maintain strong integration between product engineering manufacturing processes tooling and production support
- Drive operational uptime engineering efficiency and technical compliance
- BEng or BTech in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
- 1015 years manufacturing experience within discrete manufacturing environments
- Minimum 5 years experience in a senior engineering leadership role
- Proven leadership of engineering managers maintenance managers and multidisciplinary technical teams
- Strong understanding of:
- Manufacturing engineering
- Reliability and maintenance systems
- Engineering governance
- BOM management
- CAPEX execution
- Production support engineering
- Experience within one or more of the following environments:
- Automotive manufacturing
- Defence manufacturing
- Precision engineering
- Heavy fabrication
- Industrial equipment manufacturing
- Engineered products manufacturing
- Strong factory-floor presence and practical leadership capability
- Ability to operate effectively in high-accountability manufacturing environments
- GCC qualification
- SAP exposure
- Experience within globally competitive manufacturing environments
The ideal candidate will have exposure to:
- Machining and CNC environments
- Toolroom operations
- Assembly manufacturing
- Precision or high-volume manufacturing
- Fabrication and engineered product environments
This opportunity is best suited to candidates with a strong engineering-led manufacturing background.
Candidates from the following backgrounds are unlikely to be suitable:
- Pure operations or plant management
- FMCG/process manufacturing-only environments
- Utilities or facilities engineering
- Project management without manufacturing leadership depth
- Design engineering-only profiles
- Maintenance-only leadership without broader engineering governance exposure
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted in due course. If you are not contacted please consider your application unsuccessful.
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