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Engineering Team Leader
High Wycombe
Our client is looking for a capable and motivated Engineering Team Leader to take ownership of our engineering function at our High Wycombe site. This is a key leadership position combining technical expertise, project oversight and team development within a manufacturing environment.
You’ll be responsible for guiding a small but skilled team, ensuring the successful delivery of product development and engineering projects, while supporting production and driving ongoing improvements across our air movement product range.
This position would suit someone with a mechanical, electronics or manufacturing background who enjoys balancing hands-on engineering involvement with structured team leadership.
- Salary up to £50,000
- 10% performance-related bonus
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Additional birthday leave
- Pension scheme
- Private medical cover
Hours are Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. 37.5 hours per week
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- High Wycombe
- Monday to Friday 9-5 hours per week
- Permanent role
- 50000
About the role
The Engineering Team Leader would be expected to:
Providing direction and day-to-day leadership to a multi-skilled engineering team
- Encouraging innovation, accountability and high technical standards
- Allocating resources effectively to meet project demands
- Supporting career progression, mentoring and training within the team
- Contributing to recruitment and long-term capability planning
Project & Product Delivery
- Overseeing engineering projects from early-stage concepts through to production release
- Managing prototypes, validation processes and product approvals
- Ensuring products are designed for manufacture, performance and compliance
- Coordinating cross-functional collaboration with product management and production teams
Compliance & Technical Governance
- Maintaining adherence to applicable industry, safety and environmental standards
- Managing testing programmes and certification processes
- Liaising with external partners including suppliers, test houses and certification authorities
About you
- Degree-qualified in Mechanical, Electronic or Manufacturing Engineering (or similar)
- Minimum 6 years’ industry experience, with at least 2 years leading a team
- Background in a manufacturing setting
- Strong working knowledge of SolidWorks
- Demonstrable experience managing technical projects
- Clear and confident communicator
- Technically confident and comfortable making decisions
- Full product design lifecycle ownership (Concept → Prototype → Testing → Certification → Manufacturing handover)
- Strong CAD experience (SolidWorks essential)
- Proven ownership of product development and product design management
- Strategic-level project management experience (budgets, timelines, cross-functional leadership)
- Evidence of managing engineers directly
- Strong project delivery examples
- Experience within an R&D environment
- Organised and commercially aware
- Approachable and collaborative in leadership style
- Comfortable balancing strategic oversight with practical involvement
- Motivated to drive improvements and develop professionally
- It is essential that when applying for this role you can demonstrate previous engineering experience, project management, and leadership skills.
Advantageous
- Knowledge of ventilation, HVAC or related electromechanical systems
- Experience using CFD tools
- Understanding of acoustic performance or thermal modelling
