Engineering Manager

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The Role:

To lead the development of new electronics & software products and sub-assemblies in line with the Divisional focus, maintaining a time to market of less than 18 months for all major projects. Ensuring that Divisional relationships are maximised and needs are met.

• Maintain awareness of Divisional product road-maps and identify opportunities for Eastbourne Product Company NPI and manufacturing.
• Deliver safe, right-first-time NPI solutions to the agreed project timescales, project costs and final product costs.
• Be the Eastbourne Product Company's Technical Authority for design decisions, technical standards compliance and associated sign-offs.
• Ensure best-practice local and global engineering processes, methods and tools are developed and consistently adopted, contributing to the on-going development and adoption of VTTS, Vacuum Technique Technical System.
• Drive innovation, identifying IP opportunities and threats, and maintaining awareness of competitor and wider industry solutions.
• Strengthen the Eastbourne engineering organisation demonstrating strong leadership to ensure effective recruitment and selection, objective setting, competency and organisation development.
• Identify the future talent pipeline including succession planning by coaching, mentoring and developing your team.
• Ensure that NPI cost-centre budgets and headcount are appropriately managed, with agreed forecasts, and spends are monitored and reported against the targets.
• Assist the General Manager in the ongoing management and development of the Eastbourne site and meeting the site OGSM, Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures.

To suceed, you will need:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Electrical and/or Electronics Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• MBA or equivalent management qualification would be preferred.
• CEng, Chartered Engineer, would be preferred.
• Significant experience in developing or supporting customer-deliverable electronics based products.
• Experience working in an electronics manufacturing environment.
• Experience working in a technical and people management role.
• Experience in a project management role would be preferred.
• Good understanding of electrical and electronic components and circuits.
• Good understanding of software development processes.
• Must be a good communicator and have excellent fluency in spoken and written English.

• The role is based in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.
• The Eastbourne Product Company potentially serves all six Vacuum Technique Divisions: Scientific Vacuum, Industrial vacuum, Semiconductor, Semi Chamber Solutions, Semiconductor Service, Vacuum Technique Service.
• There will be some need to travel to UK & European locations, and maybe very occasionally to Asia or US locations, e.g. to other Vacuum Technique sites, key suppliers and, possibly, customers.
• The role requires very close interaction with Divisional level Engineering Managers and Marketing / Product Managers, as well as with peers at some other Product Companies, e.g. Engineering Managers, Quality Managers etc.
• Total budget accountability: $5.5-8.8m.
• Direct reports: typical 8-10.
• Total team size responsibility: 30-40.

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