White Label is representing an established engineering business in the Sheffield area that has a requirement for a Lead Engineer to join their team.
The role of the Lead Engineer will involve the management of a team of 8-10 Design Engineers as well as taking a design project from the table through to detailed design and manufacture. The role will be split around 50/50 in terms of people management and being hands-on with engineering work.
The types of projects you will be involved with will span over 4-5 years and be valued in the 10–30-million-pound range.
Responsibilities of the Lead Engineer
* Safety, including solution safety, ensuring compliance with company policies and HSE Regulations.
* Leadership of the engineering delivery team within the project group towards outcomes in a motivational and effective way encouraging mutual trust and respect.
* Ensure customer satisfaction by placing high emphasis on customer care for both external and internal customers.
* Financial performance, achieve revenue, profit and cash in line with targets.
* Overall technical solution in line with contractual requirements
* Delivery performance, on time, within budget, at the right quality, and safely. (TCQS)
* Contract scope management and contract variations with commercial support
* Comply with our certified BMS (PMI)
* Timely reporting of financial forecasting, and data availability/accuracy.
* Be a role model of our values.
* Flexibility to carry out other responsibilities associated with the Engineering Leader position.
Experience required of the Lead Engineer
* You’ll need to have a minimum of 20 years of experience in engineering roles with ideally 5 years or more of that being in management positions.
* Experience leading projects from cradle to grave.
* Experience management projects valued in the multi-millions.
* Experience in Heavy Engineering, Mechanical Handling, Material Handling or similar would be an advantage.
* Must be hands-on and be able to motivate and drive a team.
Package/Salary
* A salary of £60,000 - £70,000 depending on experience.
* 37.5 per week Monday to Friday – we are flexible on start and finish times to accommodate commutes etc, but the standard hours are 8:45 to 5:00 pm
* Holidays – 25 + 8 bank holidays
* Employer 5% Employee 5% pension (the employee’s pension is salary sacrificed so the benefit from the tax and NI savings)
* 2 x life insurance
* Westfield health cover
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Westfield rewards shopping portal
This vacancy is being managed by Paul Smith. Apply now for immediate consideration