Senior Engineering Manager - Mechanical Design

• Employee Type Full Time

Description

As Senior Engineering Manager, Mechanical Design, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening and scaling our mechanical engineering capability, enabling multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative designs from development through to production readiness. You will have the opportunity to drive engineering excellence, modernise processes and introduce more effective ways of working across the wider Engineering function.

Working collaboratively across Engineering and the wider business, you will champion continuous improvement, develop talent and embed consistent standards and robust governance. Your leadership will help ensure our engineering solutions are safe, compliant, efficient and cost-effective, while building the capability needed to support future growth.

• Provide strong transformational leadership to Mechanical Engineering discipline, embedding a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and high performance aligned to programme, customer and regulatory requirements
• Lead the development and evolution of Mechanical Engineering capability, aligning professional development, skills frameworks, and workforce planning with future business and technology needs
• Ensure the Mechanical Engineering team deliver capability and capacity through optimised processes, standardised ways of working, and efficient resource utilisation, meeting governance and customer requirements on time and within budget
• Hold Mechanical Engineering managers and lead engineers accountable for capability delivery on ongoing capability improvement, productivity gains within budget environment
• Embed resource planning as a disciplined, data-driven process, improving predictability, utilisation, and alignment to strategic workforce plans
• Drive a commercially focused Mechanical Engineering discipline, ensuring bid inputs reflect efficient delivery models, competitive cost structures, and scalable capability
• Support and shape the Mechanical Engineering strategy, integration with the other Engineering disciplines, ensuring it incorporates transformation roadmaps, digital enablement, and continuous improvement initiatives aligned to business growth
• Engage with key stakeholders and customers to identify innovation opportunities, emerging technologies, and process advancements that enhance capability and competitive differentiation
• Support the progressive transformation of engineering capability, ensuring it anticipates future customer requirements and enables differentiated product and service offerings
• The Senior Engineering Manager – Mechanical Design will work closely with their senior engineers, as well as other Senior Engineering Managers within the Design Engineering team, to estimate, plan and deliver mechanical design/integration work packages to quality, budget and schedule
• As the senior engineering manager, you will be a great people and process manager. It will be your job to make everyone in your engineering discipline successful, keeping them on schedule and resolving issues for successful delivery
• You will be a great communicator, team builder and recruiter, helping us develop and expand our engineering team to deliver efficient engineering solutions
• Support design reviews to ensure consistent and compliant solutions are being developed across the business unit
• Work with the wider business unit to develop and maintain appropriate mechanical design toolsets and processes
• Report mechanical design metrics for tracking progress and feeding into Senior Leadership team
• Review and manage Integrated Business Planning (IBP) demand for delivering effective resourcing, using outsourcing where appropriate
• Work with global Land teams to ensure consistent and efficient execution of mechanical design work packages
• Chair regular cadence team meetings

o Review progress against schedule and budget, including ETC and EAC

o Resolve any issues and confirm team priorities for delivery

o Share best practice and knowledge

• Hold 1:1s and performance reviews with direct reports, ensuring consistent approach is adopted down the chain for performance management and development

• Demonstrable experience managing engineering/technical delivery teams
• Significant design and integration experience in an engineering environment
• Broad technical understanding of Mechanical Design
• Broad understanding of manufacturing techniques, including…