Lead Mechanical Design Engineer - Cheshire
£60,000 - £70,000 + 15% BONUS /Award Winning Pension / 35 days holiday + B/Hs
The purpose of the job: You will be managing a highly technical engineerinng team working on various projects across the wider group to develop bespoke automation and modern mannufacturing facilities. The team itself will work on projects such as automating a labour intensive manufacturing line including doimng the concept design. You will also spend time on-site in a plant/production environment specifying new manufacturing processes, designing new machinery, automation, robotics and leading CAPEX projects. This is a senior role that will require a lot of varied engineering experience and management skills.
The ideal candidate will possess a broad engineering background, demonstrating the ability to deliver highly complex engineering programs with an innovative approach and excellent problem-solving skills. You should be outgoing, enthusiastic, self-motivated, highly driven, and capable of working effectively at all levels within the business.
NOTE: It is essential you have come from a design background where you have designed equipment such as machinery/materials handling etc. See the bottom of the advert for similar job titles.
Background & experience:
- Masters, Chartered or MBA qualified.
- Experience coming through as a design/product development engineer.
- Experience working in a plant environment, potentially as a manufacturing, production, process engineer with project management would be good.
- Must have experience / good knowledge of machine automation and process improvement within this.
- Knowledge of piping would be beneficial.
- Good people management experience.
- Excellent communication skills
In return:
The benefits are genuinely excellent and the opportunity to progress is significant. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you think this could be a good fit, please contact James Taylor on for more details.
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Key words: Design, machinery, automation, plant, project, CAPEX, chemical, improvement, manufacturing, production, development, NPI, NPD.