An R&D manufacturing & engineering consultancy now have an exciting new opening for an Engineering Manager to lead the Electrical, Mechanical and Site Maintenance teams to ensure compliance with statutory requirements & delivery of maintenance programs. This is a completely new role for the company and ideally you will possess strong leadership credentials including inter-personal, people-management and influencing skills as well as being able to work under pressure ensuring tight deadlines are met.

Within this role you will:

To be responsible for the safe and efficient management of the Infrastructure operations resources.
To deliver a published Planned Preventative Maintenance programme defined by the Chief Engineer and monitor improvements using Infrastructure Performance Management metrics.
To share fault reporting data and responses within agreed times and standards (unplanned maintenance).
To support Design and Manufacture Workshop machine maintenance and associated power supplies, as required
To deliver longer-term Infrastructure investment programmes for capability improvements.
To lead and manage the appraisal system and objective setting for the team members.
To ensure the skills and capability of the team meets the current and future needs of the business including compliance with statutory SHE training requirements.
To manage the team's apprenticeship programme and ensure supervision and coaching of trainees.
To ensure the effective sourcing, selection and management of suppliers/ service providers for supporting Infrastructure delivery requirements in conjunction with the Procurement Manager.
To ensure all team members operate safely, are trained and competent and adhere to H&S requirements of the areas and that relevant risk assessments and work instructions are in place.
To communicate and co-ordinate regularly with Experimental Aerodynamics, other operational teams and stakeholders. Formal route is via Plant meetings to agree tactical delivery priorities and Sales and Operational Planning meetings to agree medium-term delivery issues.

Ideally you will have:

A minimum of HND (or equivalent) in a technical/engineering discipline.
Demonstrated leadership experience in a technical project-based and/or maintenance environment.
Knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering procedures, tools and staff skills required in order to assign appropriately-skilled resources to meet project requirements.
Excellent computer skills (MS-office and IT-based maintenance packages).