Electrical Engineering Manager (Product Development)

Job Title: Electrical Engineering Manager (Product Development)

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £DOE

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands

Industry: Process Equipment & Packaging Machinery

Wentworth James Group has engaged with a key client and a world leading Manufacturer of Process Equipment & Packaging Machinery. The business is a full turnkey solution to the food industry including Design, Manufacture, Install, Commission & Service of special purpose machines.

About The Role

The Product Development Manager will be responsible for providing leadership and management to the Electrical Engineering team, while ensuring optimum levels of service and satisfaction to customers through their innovative approach in developing packaging and processing machinery systems, utilising Electrical Engineering principles.

Key responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate work schedules for the team including resource planning and delegating tasks.
• Liaise with and establish excellent relationships with customers, colleagues, suppliers etc.
• Manage design projects ensuring all milestones are met.
• Develop electrical designs for primary products and new projects in collaboration with other departments.
• Assist in 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 finding to the team.
• Document to the required level for UKCA and CE compliance, the electrics of a machine developed.
• Travel to both customer and sites to support and develop equipment and solutions.

Qualification and Experience:

• Electrical engineering experience – special purpose machine design or manufacturing related field is desirable.
• Knowledge of the Machinery directive 2006/42/EC
• Knowledge of the machinery safety regulations BS EN ISO 13849 & BS EN (phone number removed):2018
• Experience of working with Allen Bradley and Siemens equipment
• Experience of UL requirements and certifying control panels to UL standards
• Experience of designing safety circuits to the required PL/SIL ratings
• Experience of using safety system verification tools and data (Sistema)
• Tertiary Qualifications in Electrical Engineering
• Previous experience of managing and building a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to problem solve and work autonomously.