Head of Design Engineering

Head of Engineering

Senior executive salary is on offer for the right person
Full time permanent role Monday to Friday
Role fully based on site - Mid Ulster, Dungannon / Coalisland area

As a medium sized, established, home grown heavy metal machinery engineering company; our Client has become a commercial success story; designing, manufacturing and commissioning products. With a busy order book, they supply a global market and have aggressive growth plans.

This role is a senior management position reporting directly to Director level, overseeing experienced teams of Mechanical Project Design / R&D. The strategic engineering direction, operation processes and efficiencies of these teams are a key focus for this new role to allow for necessary expansion and increased orders.

Key focus areas:

• Team Management / Development Plan
• Team Controls / Measurements / KPI's
• BOM / Drawings
• Project Management
• New products + Testing process / schedules
• Quality / Repeat Trends
• CIP opportunities
• Cost Reductions
• Helpdesk CIP
• Manuals updated / Set Std
• The company is exploring Robotics / Automation and this role is key to this direction

The successful person will be a strong team leader within a similar role and have had previous extensive experience in specifically managing or overseeing Design, R&D and Applications teams in the past, ideally within the heavy metal machinery industry.
They will have a relevant 3rd level education and have a strategic mindset as well as one for efficiencies and process flow improvement.

If this role is of interest; then get in touch for a conversation and a more detailed job specification with Hugh Nugent or Darren McVicker in absolute confidence.