185 Engineering jobs in West Bromwich
Project Engineering Management Team Leader

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We are looking for a dynamic and committed leader to join the HVDC Product Delivery Group's Center of Excellence, taking on a pivotal role in delivering the energy transition.
As UK Team Leader for Project Engineering Managers (PEMs), you will report directly to the Global Head of Project Engineering Management. You will be responsible for leading and growing the team of PEMs based in Stafford, ensuring the successful execution of HVDC projects within your scope.
Your Key Responsibilities:
-Drive the performance and successful delivery of HVDC projects, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction and execution excellence.
-Lead, grow, and develop the UK PEM team: ensure talent acquisition, onboarding, career development, and technical leadership.
-Take ownership of the project KPIs (QCD, risks, client engagement) and ensure project engineering delivery meets expectations.
-Actively contribute to the transformation of the PEM organisation toward a culture of project excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
GE's HVDC business is expanding rapidly to meet global demand for decarbonised energy systems. This growth brings exciting challenges; scaling our teams, deepening our expertise, and elevating our project execution capabilities.
As our new UK PEM Team Leader, you will play a critical role in this transformation, helping us build a high-performing, customer-focused project engineering delivery organisation.
**Job Description**
**Roles and Responsibilities**
+ Includes direct people management, including staffing and performance development.
+ Promote a strong project culture: Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, and anticipation within the PEM organisation.
+ Contribute to organisational transformation: Support the transformation of project engineering management to reach excellence in project execution.
+ Lead and develop the UK PEM team: Coach and support PEMs to grow their project leadership, technical understanding, and cross-functional collaboration.
+ Ensure project engineering execution: Oversee project engineering performance (QCD, risks, KPIs) across its HVDC projects portfolio, ensuring consistency, application of GE processes and high standards.
+ Drive alignment across stakeholders: develop and foster collaboration between PEM organization, technical functions, and all teams involved in project delivery.
+ Support project reviews and escalations: Act as primary escalation point for engineering topics in project reviews. Ensure that critical issues are addressed and resolved.
+ Participate in strategic planning: Collaborate with Engineering Directors, Head of Functions, to improve project governance, processes, and capabilities.
+ Utilises knowledge of a technical discipline, technical experience and analytical thinking to execute policy strategy.
+ Serves as the technical leader to develop a scope of work and provide technical leadership and interface with Proposal Management, Cost Estimating, Partners, Customers, GE Product Engineering, Sourcing, Engineering sub-contractors.
**Qualifications / Requirements:**
+ Engineering degree, Engineering School, University or equivalent knowledge / experience, ideally in Electrical, Mechanical, Controls engineering.
+ We welcome talent with experience from the industry and you will be outstanding if you are from the energy sector: Oil & Gas, Power Distribution, Power Transmission, Power Generation.
+ Strong experience in complex EPC projects and leading engineering disciplines, with significant experience of people leadership.
+ Passionate about developing teams and people, with an ability to drive large-scale, high-impact initiatives. Extensive focus on developing technical, project management and leadership competence in staff, ensuring comprehensive training and development plans are in place and enacted.
+ Proven ability to identify and resolve issues, and ability to work in English speaking environment.
+ Take a pro-active approach to ensuring Health & Safety is paramount, including conducting Risk Assessments where necessary.
+ Significant customer interface experience, ability to influence others and lead teams, and excellent interpersonal skills.
**About Us:**
GE Vernova is a world leader in the energy solutions market with a portfolio of energy businesses across the globe. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition - and we want you to be part of that change and enjoy imagination at work.
If you are ready to make a difference and usher in a new era of clean, reliable energy, come join us.
**About GE Grid Solutions:**
At GE Grid Solutions we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space our goal is to accelerate the transition for a more energy efficient grid to full fill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotable role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon neutral. In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition for a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.
**Why we come to work:**
At GE Vernova, our engineers are always up for the challenge - and we're always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you'll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you'll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.
**What we offer:**
A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements
Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.
**Additional Information**
**Relocation Assistance Provided:** No
GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager with a background in embedded C++ development is sought on a hybrid basis by a market leading scale up based in Birmingham.
With a rich pedigree of delivering best in class technology for the F&B market this Engineering Manager will help shape the future roadmap of the company's multi award winning platform whilst building a multi-disciplinary team that will build highly scalable robust products.
Working closely with the founders this Engineering Manager will take responsibility for establishing engineering best practice (releases, workflow management, automation, QA) to drive new product development forward in a sustainable way whilst ensuring that every Engineer in the team feels valued & rewarded within this high performing, innovative team.
In return this Engineering Manager can expect excellent personal development opportunities within a highly dynamic, collaborative environment.
This Engineering Manager should have most of the following key skills:
- A strong background in embedded C++ development
- Experience leading on embedded system design and development
- Experience working in a product led development environment
- Proven experience designing & implementing engineering best practice
- Strong resource planning experience
- Performance monitoring capabilities
- A real 'can do', positive approach with a willingness to go above and beyond to help your team achieve their personal growth targets
- Any experience working with AI solutions would be a plus
The benefits for this role include:
- £80,000 - £90,000 base salary
- Share options
- Hybrid working (2/3 days a week in the office in Birmingham city centre)
- Flexible working hours
- Personal development scheme
- 25 days holiday
- Private pension
- Fast paced, autonomous culture with extensive growth potential
- Regular remuneration reviews
So if you are an Engineering Manager who wants to shape the direction of innovative greenfield projects whilst developing personally please click 'Apply Now' to find out more.
C++, Team leadership, mentorship, system, AI, python
Engineering Geologist
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Engineering Geologist
Reference: BY84547
Location: Coventry
Salary: 27,000 - 31,000
A Geotechnical and Environmental Consultancy based in the Midlands are seeking an enthusiastic Engineering Geologist to join their team on a variety of ground investigation projects. This position requires relevant degree level education and experience within ground investigation, as well as an excellent attitude towards work and enthusiasm to learn. You'll be provided with dedicated support and specialist training from a consultancy with nearly 30 years in the industry.
The successful Engineering Geologist will be offered:
- A top salary (27,000 - 31,000).
- Excellent training.
- Variety of exciting projects to work on.
- Enhanced pension scheme and company benefits
- Company benefit and pension scheme.
- Room for career progression and continued professional development.
This Engineering Geologist position requires an individual to apply their university knowledge to a variety of geotechnical and geo-environmental projects. You'll be carrying out ground investigations and desktop studies, writing factual and interpretive reports, soil logging, preparing soil samples, inputting field data and working on drilling rigs, all with excellent training support from senior members of the team.
The Engineering Geologist considered will have:
- A degree in Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, Geoscience or another relevant subject (Master's preferable).
- Ideally, experience in the industry.
- A full and clean UK driving licence.
- An ability to work within a team and independently.
- A full right to work in the UK.
- Be commutable to the Coventry area.
- Full right to work in the UK.
If you are interested in this or other roles Engineering/Environmental roles please do not hesitate to contact Beth Young on (url removed) or call (phone number removed). We have many more vacancies available on our website. Please refer to (url removed). This is a permanent role. Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position.
Engineering Assessor
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REMOTE WITH TRAVEL AROUND THE MIDLANDS
To demonstrate a high quality of professional practice and provide quality support and assessment at a variety of levels (Levels 2,3 & 4) in Apprenticeship Standards.
The successful candidate will work with apprentices and employers to support learners to achieve the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours of Apprenticeship Standards.
We welcome applications from both qualified Assessor / Tutors (i.e. those holding assessor and teaching qualifications), and industry qualified engineers seeking a new rewarding career in education and training. Applicants must be IT literate and be willing to travel nationally as part of the role.
MAIN DUTIES:
- To support and assess apprentices, using a blended learning approach, and take responsibility for the development of apprentices throughout their training.
- To provide support and guidance to learners.
- To operate as an effective member of the engineering team and to work closely with other areas of the business.
- To carry out administrative duties associated with teaching, including maintenance of registers, schemes of work, assessments, reports, course records and course evaluations to a satisfactory standard and within established deadlines.
- To ensure safe working practices are observed by yourself and others (including learners) for whom you are responsible.
- To provide such returns or reports as may from time to time as required by the Company Directors or Operations Manager (engineering).
- To assist in the recruitment of learners, including interviewing and enrolments.
- To assist in the development of curriculum support materials.
- To assist with programmes of work experience and/or industrial and commercial liaison, including the organisation and monitoring of work experience placements.
- To ensure the principles of equality and diversity are upheld.
- To maintain plant and machinery where practicable.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES:
- Undertake additional duties as required.
- To ensure Health & Safety and Safeguarding procedures are adhered to and safe working practices are observed by you and others (including learners) for whom they are responsible.
- To promote the company ethos regarding Equality and Diversity and act as a role model.
- You will be required to become qualified as a First Aider.
BENEFITS:
Company Mobile Phone
Company Pension
Company Laptop
Company Vehicle
Work from home
Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager - Wolverhampton
Working within a specialist EDM, machining and grinding operation in the West Midlands, our firmly established client is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to support their ongoing manufacturing growth activity within the global aerospace and industrial sectors.
Based primarily at their site near Wolverhampton, but having close working activity with the Group sister site near Halesowen, this role will report to the Group Operations Director and key responsibilities will include:
- Direct engineering responsibility within an established manufacturing environment
- Work closely with Operations to support all elements of manufacturing including machining, machining techniques, best practice, continuous improvement, schedule adherence, cost and efficiency control
- Support NPI and product development opportunities
Managing a team of circa 30 people, the role is a hands-on position and involves working to high tolerances and with specialist carbon-based materials as well as metallics. Combining grinding, 3 / 4 / 5 axis machining, the Engineering Manager should have considerable experience of working in an engineering and manufacturing environment with a strength in CNC manufacturing across similar operations.
This role would ideally suit candidates who have seen career success from a machinist level through to a supervisory/management position.
This established organisation has a wealth of experience and a growing international presence.
Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.
Engineering Buyer
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Engineering Buyer
- Would suit a proven Engineering Buyer / Procurement Specialist / Supply Chain Specialist / Technical Buyer who has worked within an engineering / manufacturing business. li>Fantastic employer who manufacture machinery used within the automation sector.
- Excellent facilities and range of benefits, including 7.5% pension, work from home flexibility, bonus and more (detailed below).
Are you an Engineering Buyer seeking a new challenge within an award winning manufacturer? Join a market leader, based near the Warwick area, who manufacture bespoke automation machinery used within a range of sectors. They are passionate and dynamic, leading the drive for cutting edge technology within their market. This business has developed a culture that prides itself in being friendly, ambitious and boasting good length of tenure throughout the team. As Procurement Specialist, you will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and buying of goods, materials, and services to ensure that the company’s operational needs are met.
Salary & Benefits:
- < i>36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days.
- 7.5% pension.
- WFH / Work From Home flexibility, in addition to flexible working hours.
- Additional overtime is paid.
The Engineering Buyer job would suit:
- Proven capability of strategically delivering deals within a manufacturing environment
- Strategic and results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines
- MCIPS qualified (or working towards).
- Skilled at building and maintaining effective and productive relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers
- Strong negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to add value, reduce costs and implement business improvements
- Supplier management and development experience
The Engineering Buyer job involves:
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders and suppliers in the procurement of goods, materials, components, and services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets.
- Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, sustain business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
- Negotiate contracts, improved prices, and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings.
- Assess quotations and tenders from potential suppliers.
Reference: JP-EBW
This Procurement Specialist jobs role is based near Warwick, Heathcote, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire and surrounding areas.
To apply please email your CV to Joe Parker at Euro Projects Recruitment
Please note that if you are not contacted within the next ten days then your application, on this occasion, has not been successful. We thank you for taking the time to apply.
Engineering Buyer
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Buyer required for an engineering supplier based in Burton On Trent. An organised and efficient Material Controller/Buyer with excellent communication skills who can confidently liaise with both suppliers, internal departments and our Joint Venture. Part of a small team procuring goods for customers including a blue chip company.
Buyer Job Overview
- General Purchasing Responsibilities
- Sourcing product from Suppliers
- Placing Purchase Orders with Suppliers
- Reviewing Spend Profiles with Suppliers
- Looking into cost down initiatives
- Reviewing and updating MRP levels within ProAlpha (ERP System)
- Running the MRP programme within ProAlpha in order to place Purchase orders off the back of recommendations
- Liaising internally with Sales Department Employees to advise the status of goods arriving into the company. Identifying items which are at risk of missing customer delivery dates
- Liasing with the Finance Department to resolve account queries, invoice queries etc
- Expediting Purchase Orders with Suppliers and attempting to improve delivery dates to meet customers expectations
- Identify and implement improvements to the overall Purchasing function
Buyer Job Requirements
- Previous experience within a similar role
- Excellent communications skills
- Strong Excel Skills
- Organisation, individual initiative, flexibility, and time management
Buyer Salary & Benefits
- Salary dependent on experience likely Circa 28k-30k
- Healthcare
- Hybrid opportunities
Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.
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Engineering Planner
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The Engineering Maintenance Planner is working with a market leading international manufacturer upon a Permanent basis. Reporting directly to the site Maintenance Manager, you will take responsibility maintenance planning and scheduling of maintenance tasks.
What's in it for you as Engineering Maintenance Planner
- The ability to join a leading manufacturing business that values its employees
- Salary up to circa 41000+ per annum, company pension contribution up to 10% matched, share option scheme, training and career development opportunities, plus a comprehensive employee benefits program
- Hours of work: Monday to Friday - Day's based position, flexible hours, e.g 7am-3pm, 8am-4pm, 9am-5pm etc
- Location - Cannock Area
- Permanent position offering job security with a market leading business
Key Responsibilities of Engineering Maintenance Planner
- To plan electrical and mechanical maintenance activities by prioritising, developing scopes of work, method statements, risk assessments and parts lists.
- To schedule preventative and corrective work and agree the weekly schedule with production stakeholders.
- Participate in meetings to review daily/weekly work schedules and backlogs
- Track and monitor job costs using purchasing and maintenance software
- Carry out inductions, managing authorisation to work and work permits
- Provide good communication skills to colleagues & production personnel to develop an understanding of the machinery operation so faults can be rectified efficiently.
- As a member of the Engineering team promote the development and implementation of the Factory CMMS system.
- As a member of the engineering department applying rigorous application of TPM Tools & Techniques to generate Continuous Improvement throughout all areas of the Factory.
- As a member of the Engineering team applying the 5S principles to deliver world-class standards of housekeeping.
- Support process improvement throughout the factory.
Qualifications & Experience for Engineering Maintenance Planner
- Demonstrable Knowledge & Expertise as an Engineering Maintenance Planner on Industrial Plant & Equipment.
- High level of computer literacy in Microsoft Office and CMMS systems.
- High degree of Health & Safety awareness.
Please apply now!
Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager with a background in embedded C++ development is sought on a hybrid basis by a market leading scale up based in Birmingham.
With a rich pedigree of delivering best in class technology for the F&B market this Engineering Manager will help shape the future roadmap of the company's multi award winning platform whilst building a multi-disciplinary team that will build highly scalable robust products.
Working closely with the founders this Engineering Manager will take responsibility for establishing engineering best practice (releases, workflow management, automation, QA) to drive new product development forward in a sustainable way whilst ensuring that every Engineer in the team feels valued & rewarded within this high performing, innovative team.
In return this Engineering Manager can expect excellent personal development opportunities within a highly dynamic, collaborative environment.
This Engineering Manager should have most of the following key skills:
- A strong background in embedded C++ development
- Experience leading on embedded system design and development
- Experience working in a product led development environment
- Proven experience designing & implementing engineering best practice
- Strong resource planning experience
- Performance monitoring capabilities
- A real 'can do', positive approach with a willingness to go above and beyond to help your team achieve their personal growth targets
- Any experience working with AI solutions would be a plus
The benefits for this role include:
- £80,000 - £90,000 base salary
- Share options
- Hybrid working (2/3 days a week in the office in Birmingham city centre)
- Flexible working hours
- Personal development scheme
- 25 days holiday
- Private pension
- Fast paced, autonomous culture with extensive growth potential
- Regular remuneration reviews
So if you are an Engineering Manager who wants to shape the direction of innovative greenfield projects whilst developing personally please click 'Apply Now' to find out more.
C++, Team leadership, mentorship, system, AI, python
Engineering Technician
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Tamworth, Dordon
Important Note: You must have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are unable to provide sponsorship.
We’re looking for dedicated Engineering Technicians to join our team at the Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC). This site is one of our oldest, meaning it relies on robust, traditional "nuts and bolts" engineering – working with cogs, conveyors, and essential mechanical handling equipment. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring our 24/7 operations remain seamless and efficient.
About the role:
- Undertake day-to-day reactive and planned engineering maintenance activities and improvement works at the CFC. li>Work closely with Inbound, Outbound, and other support teams to optimise availability and performance of the facility and its mechanical handling equipment (MHE).
- Diagnose equipment breakdowns and action repairs where possible.
- Analyse data and identify solutions to improve MHE performance.
- Report and monitor data relating to automation and maintenance activities.
Your shift pattern:
- 12-hour shifts averaging 42 hours per week.
- Includes weekdays and weekends, with a rotating pattern of days and nights.
- Holiday entitlement: 264 hours annually (equivalent to 22 days).
To be successful in this hands-on role, you must meet the following essential criteria:
- Demonstrable, current hands-on mechanical and electrical engineering experience with traditional industrial machinery such as cogs, conveyors, and heavy plant equipment. This experience must be recent—within the last 6 months. < i>Proven electrical manufacturing experience in addition to your mechanical expertise.
- A Level 3 engineering qualification (e.g., NVQ Level 3, BTEC National Diploma, or equivalent) in an electrical or mechanical discipline.
- We are particularly interested in candidates who have gained their experience in demanding, hands-on environments such as Network Rail, the Armed Forces, heavy manufacturing, or traditional warehouse/logistics operations.
- A natural problem solver, experienced in working with control systems, analysing faults, and providing practical solutions.
Full training will be provided over 5 weeks to help you fully integrate into the technician role. Experience working in an automated warehouse or logistics environment is desirable. Flexibility in working pattern may be required depending on business needs.
What we offer you:
At Ocado Logistics, we offer competitive salaries and so much more:
- Up to 7% matched pension contributions after three months of service
- Employer-funded private medical insurance
- Company shop offering discounts up to 70% on groceries from leading brands and major retailers
- Enhanced digital health and wellbeing service for you and your dependents
- Financial protection: income protection and life insurance
- High street and restaurant discounts including 15% off at ocadocom
- Option to buy additional holidays