Engineering Mechanical Design Manager

.Why join Marshall Land Systems in this role:The Engineering Mechanical Design Manager plays a pivotal leadership role, combining strategic thinking with advanced technical expertise. This role is essential for driving innovation and delivering complex engineering solutions that meet customer and business needs.This opportunity is a hybrid role requiring you to be onsite in Cambridge around 50-70% of the time.Job DescriptionThis role is critical to advancing our technical capabilities, ensuring high-quality engineering deliverables, and supporting the long-term success of our business. This position provides essential leadership and expertise, aligning resources, processes, and tools to meet customer needs and business objectives.Responsibilities: Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers and technologists, providing guidance, performance feedback, promoting health and safety and fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.

Resource Allocation: Operate effectively within a matrix environment, allocating and coordinating with integrated project teams to meet resource needs.

Capability Development: Ensure the team has the necessary skills and resources to meet current and future business needs. Develop and implement strategies for talent acquisition, training, and career growth.

Process Optimization: Identify and drive improvements in engineering processes and workflows to enhance productivity, efficiency, and overall team performance.

Tool Implementation: Assess, select, and integrate engineering tools and technologies that support the team’s needs and improve operational efficiency.

Project Input: Provide guidance and input to integrated project teams on topics related to your subject matter expertise; reviewing and approving technical documents where required.

Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with the engineering functions team to align engineering capabilities with the mission of empowering our people through a global workforce and effective frameworks.

Budget Management: Support management of the budget with the broader team; providing input and monitoring of expenditure in line with the budget forecast.Tasks: People + Lead and mentor a design team of Engineers, fostering communication among engineering, production, and quality teams for problem investigation and resolution. + Identify and address the development needs of team members, coaching them to enhance technical capabilities in alignment with the Departmental training plan and overall Engineering skills development. + Support Performance Development Reviews and technical competency assessments. + Manage a small group of mechanical engineers within the engineering function. + Collaborate effectively across the matrix organisation to achieve bottom-line performance, ensuring adherence to budgets and schedules.

Process+ Provide Subject Matter Expertise in bidding and project delivery, including developing complex design architecture for new and existing product concepts. + Offer technical input for bids and modifications, generating and defining requirements and mechanical architecture. + Ensure compliance with Regulatory and Marshall processes, designing solutions tolerant to operational environments. + Gain in-depth knowledge of Mechanical Engineering standards and specifications. + Apply best practices in Mechanical Engineering to support projects and business development. + Innovate to reduce project/product costs and enhance engineering quality, productivity, and delivery timeliness. + Maintain rigorous standards and continuous improvement in design solutions, meeting regulatory, quality, and certification requirements. + Produce and approve mechanical designs following department processes. + Manage product, build standard, drawing, and document configuration. + Lead and participate in design review meetings (SRR, ERR, PDR, CDR, change boards). + Provide expertise to other departments, including production. + Utilise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for configuration control and Engineering Change Notifications. + Create and update Bills of Material (BOM) structures in PLM.

• Tools+ Establish and maintain Mechanical Product Breakdown Structure (PBS). + Monitor project progress, budgets, and timelines using a design tracker, generating regular reports on metrics and KPIs. + Create detailed design briefs that outline project objectives, requirements, and constraints. + Challenge conventional methods to improve engineering quality, productivity, and delivery timeliness. + Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to design quality, project delivery, and team performance. + Ensure the creation of detailed design briefs that outline project objectives, requirements, and con