Principal Manufacturing Engineer

You will get the exciting opportunity to Make an impact on advanced manufacturing and production readiness while developing your career in a high technology defence engineering environment.

This is a senior manufacturing engineering role with real scope to shape industrialisation, continuous improvement and factory capability. You will lead a team delivering complex engineering outputs in a highly regulated, precision focused setting with strong investment in long term development.

Essential requirements

• Must be a British Citizen due to security and programme requirements
• Proven experience in manufacturing engineering within a complex engineering or defence related environment
• Background in engineering leadership or senior technical responsibility within a manufacturing setting
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and translate them into manufacturing build instructions
• Experience working with cross functional stakeholders including design and production teams
• HNC or equivalent in an engineering discipline, or a degree in a relevant engineering subject

Salary and rewards
Salary up to £50,000 depending on experience. The package also includes performance related bonus potential and strong longer term progression within a highly specialised engineering environment.

Your role

• Lead and support a manufacturing engineering team delivering day to day production engineering outputs
• Drive continuous improvement activity across manufacturing processes and systems
• Support design for manufacture and interface with design authority during product development phases
• Oversee manufacturing methods, processes and equipment to ensure repeatable and robust production capability
• Support industrial validation activity and contribute to manufacturing architecture planning
• Manage workload prioritisation, team delivery and technical output standards

Your experience

• Strong background in manufacturing engineering within a high complexity environment
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and managing technical delivery
• Knowledge of lean principles and continuous improvement methodologies
• Experience supporting non conformance processes and root cause activity
• Familiarity with PFMEA and structured manufacturing risk analysis
• Ability to work independently and contribute effectively within a team environment

Benefits and flexibility
You will enjoy practical benefits including a company performance bonus, enhanced pension contribution, paid overtime and additional flexi leave allowance. The organisation also supports work life balance through flexible working arrangements and provides access to wellbeing and healthcare support options.

Where you will work
Based in Biggleswade, Buckinghamshire, this role is onsite four to five days per week due to operational requirements.

Equal opportunities
The employer is committed to equal opportunities and values diversity in the workplace.
Due to the nature of work at our client’s site, these vacancies are only open to British Citizens.

This is a permanent role.


Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high technology industries. Thank you for your interest. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You may resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then.