Lead Engineer

If you’re looking for a role where technical credibility, mentorship, and operational impact come together, this Lead Engineer position is an excellent match. In this Lead Engineer role, you’ll act as the senior technical authority for existing product ranges, helping keep engineering integrity strong while improving performance, quality, and manufacturability across the serial lifecycle.

What You Will Do:

• Provide design authority for serial products, setting engineering standards, design rules and drawing checks before release.

• Lead engineering change for existing products, assessing impact across manufacturing, inventory, compliance and customers.

• Resolve complex escalations from Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales and Service, using structured problem-solving to reach root cause.

• Mentor and coach Design Engineers through design reviews, structured knowledge sharing and input into individual development plans.

• Drive DFM and standardisation initiatives to reduce cost, improve lead time and strengthen build efficiency.

• Support compliance and documentation governance, ensuring correct revision control and that safety and regulatory needs are never compromised.

What You Will Bring:

• A degree or HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.

• Typically 10+ years’ engineering experience within manufacturing or industrial products, with a proven track record in technical leadership.

• Strong knowledge of engineering drawings, fabrication and sheet metal, plus experience working across product lifecycles and engineering change control.

• Confident problem-solving skills, including structured root cause techniques and the ability to manage risk when information is incomplete.

• Proficiency in 3D CAD such as Autodesk Inventor and/or SolidWorks, and strong stakeholder communication across cross-functional teams.

This Lead Engineer role supports a culture of professionalism and quality, helping ensure products continue to perform, comply and be manufactured efficiently. Your work directly strengthens customer focus through timely engineering responses, improves operational outcomes by reducing repeat issues, and elevates capability by spreading know-how so engineering expertise is not concentrated in one person.

Location:

Based at the head office in Telford, with occasional UK and international travel as required.

Interested?:

If the Lead Engineer role sounds like the next step in a career where engineering judgement, mentoring and measurable impact all matter, apply now and take the conversation forward.

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.

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