Senior Engineering Manager

Salary circa £70,000 + bonus up to 27% + £300 monthly car allowance

Location: Bolton with hybrid working, typically 2 to 3 days per week on-site

Lead engineering | Shape manufacturing | Deliver production excellence.

Are you an experienced engineering professional who can influence manufacturing strategy, lead complex technical projects and ensure production systems are ready for future demands?

This is an opportunity to take on a senior technical leadership role, overseeing manufacturing capability, industrialisation and continuous improvement across a major engineering portfolio.

You will work across engineering, manufacturing, projects and external stakeholders, ensuring production systems meet current requirements while preparing for future challenges.

What you will be doing:

• Leading manufacturing engineering activities, including production readiness, industrialisation and the transition from development into series production.
• Driving continuous improvement, production rate increases and the resolution of complex technical issues.
• Managing obsolescence, manufacturing investment requirements and project-level technical risks.
• Influencing engineering decisions and building effective relationships with customers, suppliers and internal teams.
• Ensuring manufacturing processes remain technically capable, efficient and fit for future requirements.

What we are looking for:

• A relevant engineering degree, or an engineering apprenticeship to NVQ Level 3 with further technical education to HNC level or equivalent.
• Proven engineering experience within manufacturing systems, ideally in the defence or another complex engineering environment.
• Experience leading engineering projects, industrialisation, production readiness or obsolescence activities.
• Strong technical judgement, risk management and problem-solving skills.
• The credibility and communication skills to influence stakeholders and make decisions at a senior level.

You will also benefit from:

Company bonus of up to £2,500, based on company performance, Pension with total employer and employee contributions of up to 14%, Paid overtime opportunities, Up to 15 additional days of Flexi Leave, Flexible working arrangements, Enhanced parental leave, including maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, Excellent site facilities, including subsidised meals and free car parking, Opportunities to gain professional and accredited project management qualifications.

Interested in taking the next step in your engineering leadership career?

If you have the technical credibility and manufacturing experience to make a difference at portfolio level, then let’s have a conversation.

Apply today or contact Cirrus Selection for a confidential discussion about the opportunity.

Security
Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be British Citizens or Dual UK Nationals with British citizenship and will be required to undergo security clearance checks.

Cirrus Selection

Specialist recruiters to the engineering and technology sectors, offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment.