Manufacturing Engineering Manager
Location: Wolverhampton
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum

Role Overview

EMBS Engineering, are recruiting for an experienced Manufacturing Engineering Manager to lead a team of manufacturing engineers and an estimator within a precision engineering environment. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for the day-to-day delivery of manufacturing engineering activities, ensuring processes are robust, standardised and consistently delivered to a high standard.

The successful candidate will drive a proactive, process-led approach to manufacturing engineering, ensuring the function operates efficiently and never becomes a bottleneck to production. This role also plays a key part in bridging the gap between manufacturing engineering and the wider engineering department, improving integration and anticipating incoming work.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of manufacturing engineers and an estimator, allocating workload, monitoring progress and developing team capability.

• Establish, maintain and continuously improve standard operating procedures and structured workflows across the manufacturing engineering function.

• Manage Design for Manufacture reviews and Manufacturing Acceptance Reviews, ensuring designs are manufacturable, testable and ready for release.

• Oversee New Product Introduction activity in line with APQP requirements, including PFMEA, control plans and process flows.

• Maintain accurate manufacturing data within SAP, including routings, bills of material, production versions and inspection and test plans.

• Manage Engineering and Manufacturing Change Orders, ensuring changes are logged, assessed and implemented in a controlled manner.

• Act as a proactive link between manufacturing engineering and the wider engineering department, anticipating incoming work and supporting smooth handover.

• Prepare and review manufacturing cost estimates, support make/buy decisions and develop business cases for capital expenditure.

Essential Requirements

• Substantial experience in bespoke or low-volume precision engineering or advanced manufacturing, ideally within a regulated sector such as nuclear.

• Proven experience managing and developing a technical engineering team.

• Strong technical understanding of machining, fabrication, welding, inspection and assembly.

• Experience working with SAP manufacturing data structures, including routings, bills of material and production versions, along with a good working knowledge of MRP.

• Experience with APQP, PFMEA and New Product Introduction processes.

• HND or higher qualification in Manufacturing or Engineering.

• Working knowledge of Autodesk Inventor and PDM/PLM systems such as Autodesk Vault.

• Eligibility to obtain UK security clearance (SC).

Desirable

• Existing SC clearance.

• Previous experience within the nuclear sector or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience applying structured problem-solving methods such as 8D, DMAIC or 5-Why.

EMBS is a specialist talent consultancy connecting exceptional engineering and technology professionals with some of the UK’s most prestigious advanced engineering businesses across Transportation, Energy and Defence. With deep sector expertise and a strong network of industry-leading employers, we’ll provide expert advice and support throughout the process, helping you secure the right opportunity and take the next step in your career.

Please note, due to the nature of the markets our clients supply into, all candidates must be UK residents; we cannot offer visa sponsorship for overseas candidates.