Engineering Manager

Envair Limited; Heywood; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading containment equipment manufacturer is seeking an Engineering Manager to join their team in Heywood, England. This full-time role involves leading a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on creating bespoke containment and clean air equipment. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in mechanical engineering, particularly in the medical field, with strong leadership qualities and a commitment to quality. The position offers a competitive salary of £60,000 plus benefits including bonuses and health plans.

Benefits

Annual salary £60,000 +

Annual bonus based on company performance

Simply Health cash back plan

Credit Union

Nursery voucher salary sacrifice scheme

Qualifications

• Experienced leader with a background in mechanical engineering and team management.
• Minimum 3 years in managing engineering teams in medical or pharmaceutical settings.
• Proven ability to innovate and improve engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop an engineering team across various disciplines.
• Set priorities and manage workloads for timely project completion.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of engineers.
• Collaborate with Sales for design solutions and project delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement and manage quality systems.

Skills

Mechanical engineering expertise

Leadership in engineering teams

Aseptic processes and containment

Problem solving

Creative thinking

Education

Qualification in Engineering

Job description

We are currently looking for an Engineering Manager to join our growing team in Heywood.

As the Engineering Manager you will lead the design and delivery of standard and bespoke containment and clean air equipment across our isolator and fume cupboard product ranges.

This is a full-time role.

The Benefits

• Annual salary £60,000 +
• Annual bonus based on company performance
• Simply Health cash back plan
• Credit Union
• Nursery voucher salary sacrifice scheme

Location

Our clean, bright 63,000 sq. ft. site in Heywood, Lancashire is the largest containment factory in the North West, just minutes from the M66 and M62. We have invested £1m in our facility, with state-of-the-art machinery and excellent staff facilities including showers, canteen and plenty of on-site parking.

About us

Envair Technology have been manufacturing world class clean air and containment equipment for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries since 1972. Our mission is to engineer controlled environments that keep people and products safe from airborne hazards.

Our products, including isolators, laminar airflow cabinets and microbiological safety cabinets, are used to prepare chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients, discover new therapies for Alzheimer’s or test samples in hospitals. It means you’ll always finish the day feeling you’ve contributed to something valuable, supporting our NHS and private hospitals throughout Europe.

We’ve enjoyed strong growth in demand for our products for the last few years, and as industry leaders, are always looking to bring new innovations to the market. It’s why we look for people who share our values of taking pride in your work, being ambitious and inventive, nurturing the people around you and collaborating as a team.

Your Role

As the Engineering Manager you will lead the design and delivery of standard and bespoke containment and clean air equipment across our isolator and fume cupboard product ranges. Specifically, you will:

• Lead, manage, and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team including Design, EC&I, and Compliance engineers
• Set engineering priorities, allocate resources, and manage workloads to meet project timelines and budgets
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and professional development of engineers
• Foster a culture of safety, quality, continuous improvement, and collaboration
• Work closely with the Sales Team to offer concept design solutions during quotation and tender process
• Lead the delivery of standard and bespoke designs for containment, aseptic, and sterile applications – manage the production of design information such as GA drawings, P&IDs, equipment sizing and specification
• Review and approve engineering drawings, calculations, technical files, and change requests
• Work closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, and Project Management teams to ensure smooth delivery from concept to installation
• Support customer technical meetings, design reviews, and site-specific engineering solutions
• Drive lessons learned and continuous improvement from projects and installations
• Support quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9001) and continuous improvement initiatives

About You

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader with the following attributes:

• An outstanding, high integrity leader with experience managing high performance and growing organisations
• Extensive experience in mechanical engineering, ideally in as sheet metal industry
• Proven experience managing engineering teams, with a minimum of 3 years leading a team of designers working specifically within the medical and pharmaceutical industries
• Demonstrable experience in working with aseptic processes and containment devices
• Strong problem solver, decision maker with good communication skills
• Ability to plan, schedule and coordinate effectively
• Self-motivated with a strong results driven approach
• Ability to come up with creative approaches for generating new ideas and improving existing processes, products or designs
• Qualification in Engineering

Envair Technology are an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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