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Engineering Manager - Electrical Design

Our Opportunity

Our opportunity for Engineering Manager – Electrical Design plays a supporting leadership role, contributing to strategic thinking and demonstrating technical expertise. This role is essential for driving innovation and delivering complex engineering solutions that meet customer and business needs. The incumbent manages a team of engineers, ensuring operational effectiveness and fostering continuous improvement.

Responsibilities will include:

• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers and technologists, providing guidance, performance feedback, promoting health and safety and fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.
• Resource Allocation: Operate effectively within a matrix environment, allocating and coordinating with integrated project teams to meet resource needs.
• Capability Development: Ensuring the team has the necessary skills and resources to meet current and future business needs. Developing and implementing strategies for talent acquisition, training, and career growth.
• Process Optimization: Identifying and driving improvements in engineering processes and workflows to enhance productivity, efficiency, and overall team performance.
• Tool Implementation: Assessing, selecting, and integrating engineering tools and technologies that support the team’s needs and improve operational efficiency.
• Project Input: Providing guidance and input to integrated project teams on topics related to your subject matter expertise; reviewing and approving technical documents where required.
• Strategic Alignment: Collaborating with the engineering functions team to align engineering capabilities with the mission of empowering our people through a global workforce and effective frameworks.
• Budget Management: Supporting management of the budget with the broader team; providing input and monitoring of expenditure in line with the budget forecast.

Tasks involved:

People

• Lead and mentor a design team of Engineers, fostering communication among engineering, production, and quality teams for problem investigation and resolution.
• Identify and address the development needs of team members, coaching them to enhance technical capabilities in alignment with the Departmental training plan and overall Engineering skills development.
• Support Performance Development Reviews and technical competency assessments.
• Manage a small group of electrical engineers within the engineering function.
• Collaborate effectively across the matrix organisation to achieve bottom-line performance, ensuring adherence to budgets and schedules.

Process

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise in bidding and project delivery, including developing complex design architecture for new and existing product concepts.
• Offer technical input for bids and modifications, generating and defining requirements and mechanical architecture.
• Ensure compliance with Regulatory and Marshall processes, designing solutions tolerant to operational environments.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of Electrical Engineering standards and specifications.
• Apply best practices in Electrical Engineering to support projects and business development.
• Innovate to reduce project/product costs and enhance engineering quality, productivity, and delivery timeliness.
• Maintain rigorous standards and continuous improvement in design solutions, meeting regulatory, quality, and certification requirements.
• Produce and approve Electrical designs following department processes.
• Manage product, build standard, drawing, and document configuration.
• Lead and participate in design review meetings (SRR, ERR, PDR, CDR, change boards).
• Provide expertise to other departments, including production.
• Utilise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for configuration control and Engineering Change Notifications.
• Create and update Bills of Material (BOM) structures in PLM.

Tools

• Establish and maintain Electrical Product Breakdown Structure (PBS).
• Monitor project progress, budgets, and timelines using a design tracker, generating regular reports on metrics and KPIs.
• Create detailed design briefs that outline project objectives, requirements, and constraints.
• Challenge conventional methods to improve engineering quality, productivity, and delivery timeliness.
• Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to design quality, project delivery, and team performance.
• Ensure the creation of detailed design briefs that outline project objectives, requirements, and constraints, ensuring clear understanding and alignment across all stakeholders.
• Promote and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance design quality, efficiency, and innovation.
• Ensure all design activities comply with health, safety, and environmental best practices and regulations.

Please apply if you have most of the following:

Technical Competencies:

• Electrical Engineering Expertise: Advanced understanding of mechanical system design and development, meeting performance, safety, and regulatory standards.
• CAD & Engineering Software: Proficiency in CAD software (e.g., Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical) and PLM tools (e.g., PTC Windchill) for managing product lifecycles.
• Quality Assurance & Control: Strong experience in implementing quality management systems and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Manufacturing: Familiarity with manufacturing processes and design optimization for manufacturability.
• Risk Management & Compliance: Proficient in identifying risks and ensuring designs meet all regulatory requirements.
• Technical Leadership: Proven experience leading engineering teams and driving continuous improvement.

Experience:

• Relevant and recent experience in a technical leadership or managerial role.
• Proven ability to lead and manage engineering teams, with strong skills in mentoring, performance management, and team development.
• Solid technical background with experience in engineering practices, tools, and processes.
• Experience in operating within a matrix environment, effectively allocating resources and coordinating with integrated project teams.
• Demonstrated capability to improve engineering processes and effectively implement and manage tools that enhance team efficiency.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with various stakeholders and foster cross-departmental collaboration.

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Private healthcare
• Extensive flexible benefit program
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

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Marshall is an independent, family-owned UK company with a diverse portfolio of businesses and a shared commitment to keeping our customers moving forward.

Whether that’s supporting global armed forces to deliver mission-critical activities, keeping the UK distribution industry on the road, creating new, sustainable communities where people can live and thrive, or developing the next generations of industry talent – we are incredibly proud to have been building extraordinary futures since 1909.

Headquartered in Cambridge, we currently employ around 2,000 people across locations in the UK, Northern Europe, North America and the UAE.