Head of Design

Head of Design and Product Engineering                                                  

Sheet Steel, Fabrication, Industrial Engineering,

Competitive Salary, Plus Car Allowance and Benefits

Relocation Assistance Provided

Step into a high-impact leadership role that blends technical excellence, team coaching, and real-world delivery. As the Head of Design & Product Engineering, you'll shape the combined Design and Product Engineering function, protect resource for future innovation, and help keep engineering governance, quality, and compliance firmly on track. This role is ideal if you thrive when projects move from ideas to production-ready solutions within the engineering and manufacturing industry.

As Head of Design and Product Engineering you will:

• Lead and develop the Head of Design & Product Engineering function, bringing Production Design and Product Development under clear, accountable leadership.
• Manage departmental workload, prioritising delivery commitments while balancing day-to-day production needs with roadmap investment.
• Oversee the technical checking and approval framework, confidently reviewing and challenging significant or non-standard engineering decisions.
• Drive production design excellence, ensuring timely and accurate drawings, BOMs, and supporting manufacturing information.
• Lead controlled product development from specification through prototype, verification, validation, and production release.
• Own design-side product compliance by translating legal, regulatory, standards, and customer requirements into practical engineering outputs and evidence.

As Head of Design and Product Engineering you will have:

• A degree, HND/HNC, or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Product Design, Structural Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Substantial experience across sheet metal fabrication, structural steel, capital equipment manufacture, or a closely related environment.
• Demonstrable experience leading and developing professional engineers within a Design or Engineering function.
• Strong practical engineering judgement, with credibility to review and challenge calculations, structural assumptions, and FEA outputs.
• Advanced 3D CAD capability, ideally Autodesk Inventor and Vault, plus working knowledge of machinery/product safety and CE/UKCA conformity requirements.
• This Head of Design & Product Engineering role sits at the heart of engineering progress within the manufacturing sector, helping the business deliver a range of new silo models with capacities up to 55 tonnes along with associated feeding and conveying systems. By strengthening design assurance, compliance, and engineering systems, this company can improve product performance, manufacturability, and standardisation while supporting a safer, more efficient engineering delivery culture.

Location:

The Head of Design & Product Engineering role is based in Lancashire, offering a great opportunity to lead engineering delivery and product development from a well-established manufacturing site.

Interested?:

If this Head of Design & Product Engineering opportunity sounds like the next step in our leadership journey, apply now and take control of your impact across design governance, product innovation, and engineering delivery.r

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