Manufacturing Engineering Manager
Location: Wolverhampton
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum
Role Overview
EMBS Engineering, are recruiting for an experienced Manufacturing Engineering Manager to lead a team of manufacturing engineers and an estimator within a precision engineering environment. This is a hands‑on leadership role responsible for the day‑to‑day delivery of manufacturing engineering activities, ensuring processes are robust, standardised and consistently delivered to a high standard.
The successful candidate will drive a proactive, process‑led approach to manufacturing engineering, ensuring the function operates efficiently and never becomes a bottleneck to production. This role also plays a key part in bridging the gap between manufacturing engineering and the wider engineering department, improving integration and anticipating incoming work.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of manufacturing engineers and an estimator, allocating workload, monitoring progress and developing team capability.
- Establish, maintain and continuously improve standard operating procedures and structured workflows across the manufacturing engineering function.
- Manage Design for Manufacture reviews and Manufacturing Acceptance Reviews, ensuring designs are manufacturable, testable and ready for release.
- Oversee New Product Introduction activity in line with APQP requirements, including PFMEA, control plans and process flows.
- Maintain accurate manufacturing data within SAP, including routings, bills of material, production versions and inspection and test plans.
- Manage Engineering and Manufacturing Change Orders, ensuring changes are logged, assessed and implemented in a controlled manner.
- Act as a proactive link between manufacturing engineering and the wider engineering department, anticipating incoming work and supporting smooth handover.
- Prepare and review manufacturing cost estimates, support make/buy decisions and develop business cases for capital expenditure.
Essential Requirements
- Substantial experience in bespoke or low-volume precision engineering or advanced manufacturing, ideally within a regulated sector such as nuclear.
- Proven experience managing and developing a technical engineering team.
- Strong technical understanding of machining, fabrication, welding, inspection and assembly.
- Experience working with SAP manufacturing data structures, including routings, bills of material and production versions, along with a good working knowledge of MRP.
- Experience with APQP, PFMEA and New Product Introduction processes.
- HND or higher qualification in Manufacturing or Engineering.
- Working knowledge of Autodesk Inventor and PDM/PLM systems such as Autodesk Vault.
- Eligibility to obtain UK security clearance (SC).
Desirable
- Existing SC clearance.
- Previous experience within the nuclear sector or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience applying structured problem‑solving methods such as 8D, DMAIC or 5-Why.
Please note, due to the nature of the markets our clients supply into, all candidates must be UK residents; we cannot offer visa sponsorship for overseas candidates
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