An exceptional opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to take ownership of engineering strategy, technical governance, product development and operational engineering performance within a globally recognised industrial technology business. The role drives innovation, engineering excellence and long-term product sustainability while leading high-performing multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Client Details

Engineering Director / Chief Engineer, Frimley: Our client is a well-established international engineering manufacturer with a long history of supplying highly specialised instrumentation, monitoring and control solutions to critical industrial sectors. With a reputation for technical excellence, innovation and quality, the business supports customers across global energy, infrastructure and process industries.

Description

Engineering Director / Chief Engineer, Camberley:

This role as Engineering Director is more Chief Engineer on a day to day basis - Less strategy and P&L responsibility, more design and technical lead/authority.

• Act as the senior technical authority across the International Engineering function (3 countries).
• Provide technical leadership on complex engineering and design challenges.
• Support engineers through design reviews, investigations and problem-solving activities.
• Champion sound engineering judgement and technical rigour.
• Drive engineering best practice across product development, verification and validation activities.
• Support the development of technical capability across all engineering disciplines.
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning and professional development.

Configuration Management & Engineering Information Leadership

• Maintaining and improving the engineering disciplines that underpin product integrity, traceability and long-term business success
• Act as the organisational authority for engineering configuration management.
• Strengthen engineering change control processes across the product lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain robust product configuration disciplines.
• Ensure traceability between customer requirements, designs, drawings, bills of materials, software, validation evidence and delivered products.
• Improve engineering governance and technical control without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Lead improvements to CAD, PDM, PLM and ERP integration.

Profile

Engineering Director / Chief Engineer, Camberley: You have built your career designing, developing and supporting engineered products, preferably sensing instrumentation for safety critical purposes in highly regulated industry sectors and have retained the technical depth, curiosity and credibility that allows you to guide and influence experienced engineers.

You are equally comfortable discussing product architecture, engineering design and technical problem solving as you are configuration baselines, engineering change control, product lifecycle management and data governance.

Most importantly, you understand that robust configuration management and engineering information control are fundamental to product quality, regulatory compliance and business performance.

Ideally you will have worked in a similar sector or a heavily regulated industry.

Job Offer

• Competitive salary dependent on the level of experience, ranging from £85,000 to £100,000
• Good range of benefits