Production Engineering Manager

Overview

In this Production Engineering Manager role, you lead a high-performing team to improve production capacity, throughput, and quality within a fast-paced plasma technology environment. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to standardise processes and drive continuous improvement aligned with the OI30 strategy. You will champion root-cause analysis, documentation, and KPI-driven improvements to reduce faults and waste. This is a hands-on leadership role with a focus on sustaining operational excellence and staff development.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive starting salary
• structured career development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave
• private healthcare
• share incentive plan
• defined contribution pension plan

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line engineering support for production issues across shifts, meeting agreed response times
• Offer specialist electro-mechanical expertise to enable root-cause analysis and robust containment
• Collaborate with Operations to streamline issue reporting and service levels in the factory
• Develop and monitor KPIs for corrective/preventive actions and drive fault reduction in production
• Document and maintain consistent processes for issue resolution across the team
• Own released production documentation (SOPs, test docs) and ensure timely updates on design changes
• Coordinate training to ensure proper use of new and existing documentation in Production
• Track downstream issues and customer feedback from commissioning and implement preventative actions
• Identify, lead and execute improvement projects to reduce cost and improve quality and efficiency
• Support the implementation of a new MRP system and contributions to Manufacturing BOM discussions
• Promote continuous improvement culture through cross-functional collaboration and training

Key requirements

• HNC or higher in Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic disciplines
• Substantial experience in electro-mechanical systems production engineering, preferably in small-batch, high-tech environments
• Experience in fast-paced operations
• Proven root cause analysis capability
• Lean methodologies experience or exposure
• Experience managing and developing technical staff
• Ability to motivate, develop, and align teams with business objectives
• Open to new ways of working and innovative problem-solving
• Strong planning, delegation, and cross-functional collaboration skills

• leadership and people development
• problem-solving mindset
• collaboration across functions
• root cause analysis
• lean methodologies
• electro-mechanical systems knowledge

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