Senior Production Engineering Manager

As the Senior Production Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of the day to day engineering leadership across 2 manufacturing areas. You will be the key technical authority onsite, ensuring stable, compliant, highly efficient operations while driving capital investment and strategic engineering improvements.

Client Details

My client is a global leader within the life sciences and advanced manufacturing sector, supporting customers who deliver breakthrough solutions. Their Cardiff site is a high growth facility producing highly technical products under stringent quality and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

Provide hands on engineering support across manual and automated production lines.

Act as the principal contact for resolving technical, process, validation, and quality issues internally and with key suppliers.

Scope, purchase, install, validate, and introduce new machinery through structured change control.

Deliver measurable cost savings, process improvements, and waste reduction initiatives.

Project manage significant capital projects from concept to completion, including budget control.

Develop and maintain an Engineering Master Plan, assessing future space, equipment, and capability needs.

Champion the use of continuous improvement methodologies (Lean, TPM).

Produce high quality documentation including specifications, SOPs, training materials, and maintenance standards.

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