Electrical Design Manager/Product Development Manager - Food Equipment
Global Market Leader in High Speed Food Automation (Processing and Packaging) Machinery
- Design, Development, Innovation, R&D, Modifications and Upgrades
**Candidates must have relevant experience either from Machinery Design Management, Equipment Product Development (with design knowledge) or similar
- Candidates without experience will not be considered.**
Role:
Electrical Design Manager/Product Development Manager - responsible for providing leadership and management to the Electrical Engineering Sub-Team while ensuring optimum level of service and satisfaction to customers through their innovative approach in developing packaging and processing machinery and systems, utilising electrical engineering principles.
Responsibilities:
* Manage the activities of the Electrical Engineering Sub-Team
* Coordinate the work schedules of team members including resource planning and delegating tasks
* Encourage personal development ensuring results are achieved, including higher quality of output for customers
* Ensure team members are actively contributing to the global team throughout the life cycle of products, ensuring optimum levels of service and support are achieved
* Provide support and guidance to the greater team in the absence of the Group R&D Manager
* Work closely with all departments, ensuring you are a key team member in transitioning new designs through documentation, prototyping, timely production, and testing
* Manage design projects ensuring all milestones are met, as per the schedule
* Prepare and coordinate accurate resource, time and cost summaries for projects on a weekly, monthly and ad-hoc basis as required
* Develop electrical designs for primary products and new projects in collaboration with other departments
* Develop designs of electrics and if required, electronics of a machine or system
Description
* Assist in the development of PLC and PC programs for systems or machines that require them
* Liaise with customers and Technical Support to find solutions to electrical problems of machines and/or systems and report the findings to the team
* Develop test procedures for machinery designed
* Document to the required level for UKCA and CE compliance, the electrics of a machine developed
* Update personal technical and industry knowledge, as necessary
* Travel to customer sites to support and develop equipment and solutions
* Commission first of series machines that you are directly responsible for designing
* Conform to international standards for machinery and turnkey systems
* Provide effective coaching and line management, which includes conducting regular one-to-one reviews and annual appraisals
* Strictly follow customer specifications and regulations to design the required control systems and machines.
* Develop and specify Standard equipment which is suitable to reduce design lead times
Managerial Responsibilities
* Supervision and management of approximately 6-7 electrical engineers both UK based and abroad.
* Ensuring the budget is met as a minimum or below
* Management of design costs, time schedules and design outcome
The Company
Our Client is a Global Market Leader in the Industry with an excellent reputation for cutting edge technology in high speed automation equipment solutions with core products in both processing and packaging solutions.
They are a huge success story in the Industry, and whilst they have fantastic products, this success is down to the incredible team in the business - who are a genuine credit to the company and the sector.
Application Process
Please apply in writing with up to date CV