Manufacturing Engineering Manager (Machining)

REED Engineering & Manufacturing are working with a leading Engineering & Manufacturing company who are growing at a rapid pace year on year.

As a Manufacturing Engineering Manager at the company, you will lead and support, strategically and technically, our machine shops to deliver our customers products.

In this role, you will provide both technical and managerial leadership to several manufacturing and tooling engineers. You will be the authority for issues related to manufacturing engineering within the machine shops ensuring that the products we manufacture are produced right first time, to quality, budget and schedule.

You will own the training and development plans for our staff and ensure that our apprentices are trained to the highest standards, ensuring that we have operational excellence in everything we do.

You will work in a matrix structure with teams across HR, quality, HS&E and production to deliver your role. Working with the head of machine shops and the production manager, a key aspect of the role is to bridge our current operations with our new machine shop recapitalisation team, ensuring a smooth transition over the next five years.

Essential Skills

• Lead teams through change management.
• Proven skills in manufacturing engineering techniques.
• Machining of high value, high integrity components.
• Expertise in both low and high-volume manufacturing processes and methodologies.
• Applied codes and standards from a highly regulated sector such as Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Orthopaedic and Aerospace.
• Lead continuous improvement programmes in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven expertise in new product and process introduction.
• Experience of CAD/CAM and PLM systems.
• Ability to analysis data, make recommendations and report findings.

Personal Skills

• Demonstrate robust leadership skills, along with strong emotional intelligence and excellent listening skills to foster effective professional relationships.

Provide clear communication both written and verbal at all levels in, and outside, the organisation covering technical and non-technical information.