Senior Manager – Mechanical Handling
$71,000–$93,187 year
HybridManchester, England, United Kingdom or Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead the development, governance, and delivery of integrated Mechanical Handling solutions across the full product lifecycle, from concept through operation and maintenance. Provide technical leadership and delegated engineering authority for Mechanical Handling equipment, ensuring safe, robust, and deployable solutions while owning delivery of major programmes against cost, schedule, quality, safety, and technical performance objectives. Build and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team to establish the Design Authority and Intelligent Customer capability, governing engineering substantiation, safety cases, and design verification activities. Collaborate across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and supply chain functions to support customer, site-specific, and future fleet deployment activities.
Required Qualifications
- Degree-qualified in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline
- Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional recognition
- Experience leading the design, manufacture, operation and maintenance of Mechanical Handling equipment or comparable safety-critical systems within the nuclear sector or another highly regulated industry
- Proven experience leading large engineering teams and delivering complex product development programmes across multiple stages of the product lifecycle
- Strong understanding of engineering governance, safety substantiation, product ownership, design integration, manufacturing delivery and verification & validation activities
- Experience managing substantial engineering budgets, programme risks, resource planning and capability development
- Demonstrable success leading multidisciplinary teams and influencing stakeholders across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, commercial and programme functions
- Ability to operate effectively within ambiguity, driving delivery and maintaining high-performance standards in a rapidly evolving environment
- Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
- Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check
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