Director of Engineering
Sector: Advanced Manufacturing / Engineered Products. Location: Melksham. Job type: FullTime.
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
Salary: £80,000 - £120,000 /annum. Bonus, Pension etc.