Senior Engineering Manager - Mechanical Design
Role Overview
Senior Engineering Manager responsible for strengthening and scaling mechanical engineering capability and leading multidisciplinary delivery from development through production readiness.
The role drives engineering excellence, process modernisation, continuous improvement, robust governance, and future capability.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Senior Engineering Manager responsible for strengthening and scaling mechanical engineering capability and leading multidisciplinary delivery from development through production readiness.
The role drives engineering excellence, process modernisation, continuous improvement, robust governance, and future capability.
Leadership and delivery
- Lead the Mechanical Engineering discipline, building accountability, high performance, and continuous improvement aligned to programme, customer, and regulatory needs.
- Develop capability, skills frameworks, professional development, and workforce plans aligned to business and technology needs.
- Optimise processes, standardise working practices, and use resources efficiently to meet governance and customer requirements on time and within budget.
- Hold managers and lead engineers accountable for capability improvement and productivity.
- Use data-driven resource planning to improve predictability, utilisation, and alignment with strategic workforce plans.
- Ensure bid inputs support efficient delivery, competitive costs, and scalable capability.
Design work and team management
- Shape engineering strategy, transformation roadmaps, digital enablement, and coordination with other engineering disciplines.
- Work with senior engineers and other senior engineering managers to estimate, plan, and deliver mechanical design and integration packages to quality, budget, and schedule.
- Support design reviews and maintain mechanical design toolsets and processes.
- Report mechanical design metrics and review Integrated Business Planning demand, resourcing, and outsourcing options.
- Work with global Land teams on consistent execution; chair team meetings, review schedule and budget progress, resolve issues, and set priorities.
- Hold one-to-ones and performance reviews, develop staff, and recruit and build the engineering team.
Qualifications and experience
- Demonstrable experience managing engineering or technical delivery teams and significant design and integration experience in an engineering environment.
- Broad technical understanding of mechanical design and manufacturing techniques, including riveting, welding, and fabrication.
- Management and people leadership, planning, organisation, and financial-management skills.
- Production engineering knowledge including Design for Manufacture and Assembly and mechanical integration.
- Engineering degree and/or significant relevant experience in design and integration.
- Chartered Engineer status is desirable; candidates must be eligible for Security Clearance.
Location and travel
- Main location is Cambridge, with travel to the Merthyr Tydfil production facility.
- Hybrid working requires at least three days per week in the office.
- Some travel in the UK, EU, and Canada is expected.
About the company
Marshall Land Systems develops specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces, including bomb disposal vehicles, deployed shelters, command and control systems, and battlefield CT scanners.
The Canadian-owned global company has major facilities in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands and employs 600 people.
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