Engineering Manager

Role Overview

We are supporting a leading high-tech manufacturing organisation in the appointment of an Engineering Manager to lead the site’s Process and Test Engineering function.

This is a senior engineering leadership position with responsibility for shaping the site’s long-term industrial strategy, driving advanced manufacturing capability, and leading the deployment of automation, robotics, and high-speed precision manufacturing technologies.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical expertise with proven people leadership, industrialisation, and capital investment experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Process & Test Engineering function, with responsibility for the site’s industrial engineering and manufacturing engineering activities.
• Define and implement the site’s long-term industrial and manufacturing strategy, aligned with broader business objectives.
• Drive the adoption and optimisation of advanced manufacturing technologies, particularly robotics, automation, and high-speed, high-precision systems.
• Lead the industrialisation of new products and processes, ensuring robust deployment from development through to production.
• Manage complex manufacturing engineering projects, including the deployment, commissioning, and optimisation of automated and robotic manufacturing systems.
• Develop and manage the site’s industrial investment and capital expenditure programme, supporting annual investment planning and prioritisation.
• Monitor automated equipment and manufacturing performance, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, increased efficiency, and asset utilisation.
• Ensure high standards of process performance, compliance, quality, and operational excellence across the site.
• Lead standardisation initiatives across products, processes, equipment, and manufacturing technologies.
• Provide technical leadership on significant engineering changes, manufacturing processes, and equipment decisions.
• Manage relationships and interfaces with wider global engineering, operations, product, and manufacturing functions.
• Lead and coordinate the site’s industrial and manufacturing engineering teams, supporting capability development and effective resource planning.
• Define programme and budget targets and ensure delivery against agreed objectives.
• Participate in key operational, technical, project, and investment review forums.
• Support wider manufacturing sites during production ramp-up, industrialisation and complex process-related challenges.
• Promote a culture of innovation, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and best practice across the engineering organisation.

People & Leadership

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team
• Provide clear technical and strategic direction while developing engineering capability within the organisation.
• Act as a key engineering leader, influencing stakeholders across operations, manufacturing, product development, and global engineering functions.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Degree-qualified Engineer, ideally with a strong background in manufacturing, industrial, mechanical, electrical or automation engineering.
• Minimum 5 years' relevant professional experience, ideally gained within a high-volume or advanced manufacturing environment.
• Strong high-tech manufacturing experience.
• Proven experience leading Process, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience implementing, commissioning, and managing robotic and automated manufacturing systems.
• Strong understanding of advanced manufacturing technologies, automation, robotics, and high-speed precision manufacturing.
• Experience managing industrialisation and manufacturing engineering projects from concept through to production.
• Experience with capital investment planning, equipment selection, and industrial budgets.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing performance, including delivery, quality, productivity, and asset utilisation.
• Proven ability to lead continuous improvement and drive operational performance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across site and global functions.
• Strategic thinker who can translate long-term manufacturing objectives into practical site-level initiatives.

What Makes This Role Attractive

This is an opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to take ownership of a significant manufacturing engineering and industrial strategy function, with the scope to influence future manufacturing capability, automation investment, and advanced technology deployment across the site.

For further information on this Engineering Manager role in Galway please contact Caroline Kingston on +353 868395531 or email caroline@hero.ie Check out all our open jobs on our HERO Recruitment website – https://www.hero.ie/.

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