Engineering Manager

Vargo is supporting a multinational engineering business with the appointment of an experienced Engineering Manager to lead on R&D Projects, on a permanent basis.

This is a technical leadership role responsible for leading the development of innovative solutions and ensuring the successful delivery of new products, customer-specific developments and technology improvement projects. The role combines technical leadership, project management and people management, supporting growth in custom-engineered solutions, new markets and technologies.

• Lead the development of new products and technologies.
• Drive the design and development of customer-specific solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and designers.
• Review and approve technical designs, calculations, specifications and drawings.
• Support complex customer applications and technical problem-solving.
• Lead concept generation, feasibility studies, prototyping and product validation.
• Coordinate testing and verification programmes.
• Manage multiple R&D projects, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, budget and timescales.
• Allocate engineering resources effectively across projects.
• Provide technical support to Sales and Business Development teams.
• Work closely with Global R&D, Finance, Quality and Operations.
• Support product certification, technical documentation and engineering change control.

The role will also involve supporting innovation, IP protection, product improvement and R&D-related activity.

You will bring strong technical competence, commercial awareness and leadership capability. You’ll be confident leading technical projects, supporting engineers and working closely with customers and internal stakeholders.

• Degree in mechanical engineering, product design or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in product development or engineering.
• Experience managing technical projects.
• Previous leadership or supervisory experience.
• Excellent problem-solving ability.

Please note:

Our client is unable to offer VISA sponsorship for this position. All applicants must have full right-to-work in the UK in order to be considered.