Job Details

Director of Engineering

Location: UK
Sector: Advanced Manufacturing / Engineered Products
Job Type: Permanent

Overview

An established international manufacturing business is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead its engineering strategy and operational delivery across a complex, high-performance environment.

This role will provide both strategic direction and hands-on leadership to ensure technical excellence, product integrity, and continuous operational improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement the engineering strategy aligned to business objectives

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team

• Oversee manufacturing, process, and product engineering activities

• Drive continuous improvement across safety, quality, cost, and delivery

• Ensure robust technical governance, standards, and compliance

• Lead capital investment planning and execution

• Support new product introduction and production readiness

• Manage product lifecycle, configuration control, and change management processes

• Resolve complex technical issues and provide senior-level engineering guidance

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams

• Act as senior technical representative with customers and external stakeholders

• Provide clear performance reporting and engineering KPIs to senior leadership

Candidate Profile

• Degree-qualified in an Engineering discipline

• Significant senior engineering leadership experience within a manufacturing environment

• Proven track record of delivering operational and technical improvements

• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and manufacturing processes

• Experience leading capital projects and technical investment programmes

• Commercially aware with strong risk management capability

• Confident communicator able to influence at executive level