Engineering Director

Innovation Engineering Director

£100,000 package: £75,000 salary, plus bonus, pension & car. Total package worth over £100,000 when you factor in 8% employer pension contribution, company car and management bonus. 25 days off (+BHols).

Location: Warwickshire

This Engineering Director job opportunity focuses on electro-mechanical innovation to introduce new engineering technologies and electromechanical IoE machine connectivity to specialist machines designed and manufactured in the Midlands.

This innovation-focused Engineering Director job is with an internationally recognised award-winning business. They hold IP patents and have won awards for engineering innovation and engineering exports. The Engineering Director will join a company with a busy order book, significant market share, and sales into the UK, Europe, and beyond. To keep pace with customers, the Engineering Director will be innovation-focused and help the business invest in the next generation of electro-mechanical engineering product innovation.

Reasons to want this Engineering Director job:

1. Focus your time on engineering innovation and develop the next generation of a product range already used by over a million people every day.
2. As Engineering Director, you’d have only one direct report, allowing you to focus on blue-sky thinking, investigating new technologies, and setting innovation strategy across electro-mechanical engineering technologies and machine connectivity IoE.
3. Become part of the team at one of the UK’s most successful export success stories.
4. Join a company with can-do, down-to-earth people who are as passionate about how they work together as a business.

The ideal background and skills for this Innovation Engineering Director include:

• The ability to balance engineering innovation strategies with electro-mechanical and machine connectivity technology applicable to real-world products manufactured in low-to-mid volume.
• The ability to drive product innovation that solves various challenges.
• Innovations that help customers solve their problems.
• Innovations that wow the customer (and their consumers) by introducing innovations that give customers a competitive edge.
• Innovations that improve the reliability and cost-effectiveness of the equipment.
• The ability to work with customers and identify opportunities to solve their current and future problems.
• The ability to work with suppliers, academics, and research technicians, delegating packages of work and driving mini-projects to completion.
• The ability to recognise the pace needed in the commercial and industrial sector and deliver innovation projects within commercially viable cost, time, and market sector demands.

Reference: IY.8IYDHYS4676