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White Label is representing an established engineering business in the Sheffield area that has a requirement for a Lead Engineer to join their team.

The role of the Lead Engineer will involve the management of a team of 8-10 Design Engineers as well as taking a design project from the table through to detailed design and manufacture. The role will be split around 50/50 in terms of people management and being hands-on with engineering work.

The types of projects you will be involved with will span over 4-5 years and be valued in the 10–30-million-pound range.

Responsibilities of the Lead Engineer

* Safety, including solution safety, ensuring compliance with company policies and HSE Regulations.

* Leadership of the engineering delivery team within the project group towards outcomes in a motivational and effective way encouraging mutual trust and respect.

* Ensure customer satisfaction by placing high emphasis on customer care for both external and internal customers.

* Financial performance, achieve revenue, profit and cash in line with targets.

* Overall technical solution in line with contractual requirements

* Delivery performance, on time, within budget, at the right quality, and safely. (TCQS)

* Contract scope management and contract variations with commercial support

* Comply with our certified BMS (PMI)

* Timely reporting of financial forecasting, and data availability/accuracy.

* Be a role model of our values.

* Flexibility to carry out other responsibilities associated with the Engineering Leader position.

Experience required of the Lead Engineer

* You’ll need to have a minimum of 20 years of experience in engineering roles with ideally 5 years or more of that being in management positions.

* Experience leading projects from cradle to grave.

* Experience management projects valued in the multi-millions.

* Experience in Heavy Engineering, Mechanical Handling, Material Handling or similar would be an advantage.

* Must be hands-on and be able to motivate and drive a team.

Package/Salary

* A salary of £60,000 - £70,000 depending on experience.

* 37.5 per week Monday to Friday – we are flexible on start and finish times to accommodate commutes etc, but the standard hours are 8:45 to 5:00 pm

* Holidays – 25 + 8 bank holidays

* Employer 5% Employee 5% pension (the employee’s pension is salary sacrificed so the benefit from the tax and NI savings)

* 2 x life insurance

* Westfield health cover

* Employee Assistance Programme

* Westfield rewards shopping portal

This vacancy is being managed by Paul Smith. Apply now for immediate consideration