Role: Interim/Contract Engineering ManagerSalary: £NegHours: Mon-Fri, core hours 08:30 – 17:00 (must be flexible depending on business needs)Location: Marden, KentContract: Full-time, Permanent
KHR is working with a growing and well-established engineering and manufacturing business, is currently recruiting for a short-term Interim/Contract Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary engineering function.
Our client is looking for someone who can hit the ground running and is comfortable leading a multidisciplinary engineering function, covering mechanical, electronics, software and physics/systems. The candidate must have strong people management experience, alongside the ability to provide leadership and structure to the team, oversee current engineering priorities, and work closely with manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams across different areas of engineering.
- Manage recruitment, appraisals, performance, coaching and ongoing development of engineers.
- Manage multidisciplinary engineering projects, ensuring technical, quality, cost and delivery requirements are met.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, problem-solving and engineering decision-making.
- Support engineering strategy, innovation, resource planning and continuous improvement.
- Oversee engineering resources and priorities, ensuring teams are effectively allocated across multiple projects and business requirements.
- Identify and manage technical risks, supporting design reviews, technical trade-offs and ensuring engineering solutions meet standards.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong Engineering Management level experience.
- Proven leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams, across multiple areas of engineering/manufacturing
- Genuine people management experience, including recruitment, performance management and development.
- Experience working closely with manufacturing and production.
- Ideally from electronics, medical, defence, software, scientific or another complex engineering environment.
- A hands-on and technically engaged leadership style rather than purely strategic experience.
- Degree-qualified in Engineering, Physics or a related discipline.
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