Production Engineering Manager

About The Role

As Production Engineering Manager, you'll be accountable for the leadership of SEA's production engineering team, ensuring that manufacturing processes and equipment are safe, efficient, controlled and capable of delivering on quality, time, and cost.

Production Engineering Manager will be based at our Barnstaple site. This role does require being onsite 5 days a week.

The salary for this role is up to £70k, depending on experience.

• Leadership of Production Engineering - Responsible for ensuring people, processes and tools are appropriately aligned to our strategic objectives, supporting completion of SEA’s product development and project delivery activities championing Safety, Quality, Delivery and cost (SQDC).
• Production Engineering Execution - Ownership of CAPEX budgets and project plans to enhance production layout, capacity and capability.
• Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement - champion improvements across all production areas and support root cause investigations.
• People Leadership - Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching and guidance to members of the Production engineering team.

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.

We provide state‑of‑the‑art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In‑service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever‑growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on‑the‑ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

We encourage innovation, flexibility and out‑of‑the‑box thinking to solve problems, and we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins.

• Work life balance
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Half day Fridays
• Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• All Staff Bonus
• Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing Centre
• Sports & Social activities
• Employee discounts portal - online and in‑store discounts, travel savings
• Life assurance policy
• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
• Development opportunities, including Linked In learning
• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
• Private seated lunch areas
• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
• Onsite showers and toiletries provision
• Free onsite parking

• Previous production engineering experience in a low volume / high variety manufacturing environment
• Proven experience as a line manager
• Ability to multi‑task and adjust priorities as appropriate
• Experience with ISO
  9001, ISO
  14001, ISO
  45001 (AS9100 experience desirable)
• Relevant professional qualifications desirable
• Strong problem‑solving and critical thinking skills
• Resilient and calm under pressure with the ability to work to tight deadlines and communicate at all levels

Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.