Interim Engineering Manager

Role: Interim/Contract Engineering Manager Salary: £Neg Hours: Mon-Fri, core hours 08:30 - 17:00 (must be flexible depending on business needs) Location: Marden, Kent Contract: Full-time, Permanent

KHR is working with a growing and well-established engineering and manufacturing business, is currently recruiting for a short-term Interim/Contract Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary engineering function.

Our client is looking for someone who can hit the ground running and is comfortable leading a multidisciplinary engineering function, covering mechanical, electronics, software and physics/systems. The candidate must have strong people management experience, alongside the ability to provide leadership and structure to the team, oversee current engineering priorities, and work closely with manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams across different areas of engineering.
• Manage recruitment, appraisals, performance, coaching and ongoing development of engineers.
• Manage multidisciplinary engineering projects, ensuring technical, quality, cost and delivery requirements are met.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, problem-solving and engineering decision-making.
• Support engineering strategy, innovation, resource planning and continuous improvement.
• Oversee engineering resources and priorities, ensuring teams are effectively allocated across multiple projects and business requirements.
• Identify and manage technical risks, supporting design reviews, technical trade-offs and ensuring engineering solutions meet standards.

What We're Looking For

• Strong Engineering Management level experience.
• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams, across multiple areas of engineering/manufacturing
• Genuine people management experience, including recruitment, performance management and development.
• Experience working closely with manufacturing and production.
• Ideally from electronics, medical, defence, software, scientific or another complex engineering environment.
• A hands-on and technically engaged leadership style rather than purely strategic experience.
• Degree-qualified in Engineering, Physics or a related discipline.

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