Engineering Manager

Description

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Glascoed, Radway Green, or Washington.

Salary: £57,000 + depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

·Supporting and coaching a Product Engineering Design/Process Engineering team to develop and qualify Munitions products

·Guiding and ensuring the delivery of the engineering programme to schedule, working closely with the programme project manager

·Holding delegated authority from Chief Engineer for ensuring product safety and product performance

·Overseeing the engineering team, setting goals, monitoring, and driving performance

·Reviewing engineering resource demand to ensure the team is appropriately sized and skilled to meet future needs of the business

·Taking responsibility for the effective application of Technical and Design Reviews throughout the Engineering lifecycle and to ensure appropriate governance

·Supporting the bid process through chairing technical bid reviews and presenting findings to range of stakeholders

·You will also have people management responsibility in this role

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

·BEng or BSc or equivalent experience in mechanical, aeronautical, chemical, or materials engineering

·People management and leadership skills with experience of organisational design and implementation skills

·Experience of working with hazardous materials or processes

Desirable:

·Prior experience related to Energetics Materials science and the use of energetics within munitions

·An understanding of engineering problem solving methodologies, i.e., Design of Experiments, Taguchi analysis, Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA), Process Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (PFMEA)

·COMAH site experience

 

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Artillery Tanks & Mortar team:

This is an exciting opportunity for you to get involved in a variety of projects within the Mortars and Naval area, you will be working on both new products within development and supporting in the manufacturing of existing products, with an involvement across the entire lifecycle from concept to in service use. You will be a part of a large team and will be reporting directly into the Artillery Tank and Mortar Chief Engineer, and working alongside other Engineering Managers that will be overseeing other areas. You will have the chance to bring your knowledge and experience and to share this with you direct reports which will be made up of Process Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Controls Engineers. We will support you with career development and further learning to allow you to progress within the business.

Closing Date: 10th September 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.