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.
At KHR, we take care to ensure that you are represented as well as possible, so it is worth checking your CV for layout, spelling and grammar as well as making sure it is up to date before you submit. If you feel you need to highlight particular qualifications, skills or relevant experience with regard to a specific role, then please add a cover letter or a preface page. This does not need to be formatted in the same manner. In addition, if your CV is heavy with graphics, etc, please could you also submit a "clean" copy in Word. Thank you.
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Role: Engineering Manager
Salary: £65,000 – £75,000 DOE + Bonus (potentially higher for the right candidate)
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 to recruit an experienced technical Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary engineering function.
The role will focus on leading and developing the engineering team, overseeing NPI/NPD projects from concept through to design and manufacturing, while also improving engineering processes. The successful candidate will be hands-on, commercially minded and comfortable working across multiple areas of the business.
Key Responsibilities
– Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams across different areas of engineering.
– Manage recruitment, appraisals, performance, coaching and ongoing development of engineers.
– Oversee NPI/NPD from concept/design through to manufacturing.
– Manage multidisciplinary engineering projects, ensuring technical, quality, cost and delivery requirements are met.
– Improve engineering processes, governance, documentation and ways of working.
– Work closely with Manufacturing and Production to support successful product development and industrialisation.
– 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.
- Develop engineering capability and best practice, introducing structured design methodologies, configuration control and lessons learned to improve product quality and reliability.
What We're Looking For
– Strong Engineering Management level experience.
– Strong NPI/NPD and product life cycle 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.
What's On Offer
– £65,000 – £75,000 salary, potentially higher DOE
– Bonus scheme
– Enhanced pension contributions
– Training and development
– Occasional international travel
- Other general benefits
At KHR, we take care to ensure that you are represented as well as possible, so it is worth checking your CV for layout, spelling and grammar as well as making sure it is up to date before you submit. If you feel you need to highlight particular qualifications, skills or relevant experience with regard to a specific role, then please add a cover letter or a preface page. This does not need to be formatted in the same manner. In addition, if your CV is heavy with graphics, etc, please could you also submit a "clean" copy in Word. Thank you.
Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. KHR - Recruitment Specialists is a trading name of Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd. Keep in touch with us online for job alerts, industry updates and market...
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Interim Operations Manager
Location: Chatham
Rate: £31–£32 per hour
Contract: Interim, minimum 3 months, with potential for a permanent opportunity
Hours: Full-time, with flexibility to support a 24/7 operation
Are you an experienced Operations Manager with strong people leadership skills and a background in complex, shift-based or 24/7 environments?
We are seeking a hands-on, credible and confident Interim Operations Manager to lead and strengthen a busy 24/7 operation in Chatham. This is an initial three-month interim assignment, with the potential to transition into a permanent position for the right candidate.
You will play a key role in providing visible leadership, improving management consistency and strengthening operational performance across three essential service areas.
This is a people-focused operational leadership role. You do not need to be a technical expert in every service. Strong operational management, people leadership, and the ability to make a tangible difference quickly matter most.
The Role
Joining an established operation, you will work closely with the existing Shift Manager and wider team, drawing on their technical expertise while providing clear operational oversight, structure and accountability.
Your initial focus will be to understand the operation, identify key priorities and introduce practical improvements that strengthen performance, team engagement and service delivery.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing visible and confident leadership across operational teams and shifts.
- Strengthening people management, performance management and management consistency.
- Establishing clear expectations, accountability and effective management routines.
- Managing performance, conduct, attendance and capability issues in partnership with HR.
- Reviewing workforce deployment, shift arrangements and management cover.
- Improving communication and handovers across the 24/7 operation.
- Monitoring performance against KPIs, SLAs and service standards.
- Identifying and managing operational risks, incidents and service issues.
- Maintaining a strong focus on health and safety, safeguarding and service resilience.
- Working collaboratively with technical specialists and internal stakeholders.
- Identifying and embedding practical improvements to service quality, efficiency and customer outcomes.
- The objective is to leave behind stronger management practices, improved operational effectiveness and a clear plan for longer-term improvement.
About You
We are looking for an experienced operational people leader who can establish credibility quickly, take ownership and make a positive impact in an interim environment.
You will ideally have:
- Significant experience managing people within a busy operational service environment.
- Experience leading a 24/7, shift-based, time-critical or similarly complex operation.
- A strong track record of motivating, developing and managing teams.
- Experience coaching and supporting other managers.
- Confidence handling challenging performance and employee relations matters.
- Experience managing service delivery against KPIs, SLAs or defined standards.
- Strong operational judgement and decision-making skills.
- Experience in workforce planning, resource deployment and operational improvement.
- A practical understanding of health and safety, operational risk and safeguarding.
- The ability to work effectively with specialist colleagues without needing to be the technical expert.
- Experience within contact centres, control rooms, customer service, utilities, transport, logistics, security, emergency response, public services, health and care, or other complex operational environments would be relevant.
What We're Looking For
- You will be a visible, approachable and decisive leader who is comfortable getting into the details, tackling challenges and holding people accountable.
- You will be pragmatic, solutions-focused and confident joining an established operation where improvements need to be delivered quickly and sustainably.
This opportunity would suit an experienced interim manager or an operational leader looking to make a meaningful impact, with the potential to secure a permanent position following the initial assignment.
At KHR, we take care to ensure that you are represented as well as possible, so it is worth checking your CV for layout, spelling and grammar as well as making sure it is up to date before you submit. If you feel you need to highlight particular qualifications, skills or relevant experience with regard to a specific role, then please add a cover letter or a preface page. This does not need to be formatted in the same manner. In addition, if your CV is heavy with graphics, etc, please could you also submit a "clean" copy in Word. Thank you.
Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. KHR - Recruitment Specialists is a trading name of Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd. Keep in touch with us online for job alerts, industry updates and market trends…
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