Engineering Test Lab Manager

Engineering Test Lab Manager
South Wales
£60,000 - £75,000 + benefits

Yolk Recruitment is exclusively partnered with a global manufacturer to recruit an Engineering Test Lab Manager for their R&D facility in South East Wales. This is a key leadership role, managing a small test and development team and ensuring the laboratory delivers safe, accurate and timely results to support new product development, prototyping, validation and customer projects.

This is what you'll be doing

As Engineering Test Lab Manager you'll play a role in the mechanical development work required to design products aligned to customer application, with responsibility for the planning, operation and development of the laboratory. Your work will include:

Planning and coordinating testing activities for prototypes, validation and customer programmes.
Leading and managing a team, allocating work and developing capability.
Designing or adapting test equipment and fixtures, specifying data logging systems and ensuring all equipment is maintained, calibrated and compliant.
Running and overseeing test activities - force, pressure, environmental etc
Producing documentation including test plans, procedures, reports, production test specs and maintenance schedules.
Supporting production, sales, quality and customer teams with data and expertise.
identifying future equipment needs and improvements to lab capability
Promoting a safety-first culture and driving continuous improvement in the lab.
Collaborating with wider R&D departments, DFMEA, DVP and varied problem solving

The experience you'll bring to the team

Mechanical Engineering education
Relevant experience within R&D / Test
Familiarity with modern data acquisition systems
Safety-conscious, organised, and confident in structured problem-solving.

And this is what you'll get in return

Salary in the region of £60,000 - £75,000.
Excellent benefits package including pension, holidays and wider perks.
A role with scope to shape the future capability of Test activities onsite
Development opportunities within a secure, international manufacturer.
Are you up to the challenge? If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in this role apply now!

* Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities