CHEP UK Ltd.
* Drive the engineering lifecycle for new and existing physical products, ensuring robust design, testing, validation, and technical delivery.* Translate strategic product innovation priorities into clear engineering roadmaps, plans, and workstreams aligned with organisational outcomes.* Lead global engineering teams across product categories, providing coaching, direction, and support to deliver consistently high‑quality outputs.* Oversee global testing and experimentation activities, ensuring appropriate test design, accurate data collection, and rigorous technical analysis.* Manage escalations related to technical decisions, resource constraints, and operational challenges, ensuring continuity and delivery of engineering programmes.* Partner with commercial, marketing, operations, and strategy teams to deliver customer‑focused solutions and support collaborative innovation projects.* Manage engineering budgets, optimising utilisation of internal resources and external partners, including suppliers, consultancies, and test facilities.* Strengthen engineering governance by defining success metrics, ensuring high‑quality reporting, and promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams and regions.* **Strategic alignment & planning:** Support the Global Head of Product Innovation and GPI Category Leads in strategic directions and goals; convert GPI outcomes into actionable engineering plans, deliverables, success metrics, and governance (in partnership with GPI Product Operations).* **Lifecycle ownership:** Drive the end‑to‑end development of new and existing **physical products**, ensuring market fit, sustainability impact, commercial viability, and compliance with standards.* **Innovation & collaboration:** Foster a high‑performing, innovative culture across engineering, testing, product operations, Sales, Marketing, and Leadership; accelerate growth via experimentation, rapid prototyping, and data‑driven decision‑making.* **Engineering leadership:** Line‑manage engineers across **Core and Specialty** categories; set clear objectives, remove impediments, resolve technical and resource escalations, and coach for performance.* **Metrics & performance:** Define engineering success metrics aligned to overall GPI outcomes; monitor and report progress, risks, and course‑corrections.* **Program & facility leadership:** Lead the global product innovation support team and facility (IC), acting as a role model in program management of critical technical programs for product development, testing, and experimentation.* **Global programs & delivery:** Lead complex global engineering programs; supervise personnel and ensure on‑time delivery of diverse mechanical engineering and testing workstreams.* **Capacity expansion:** Grow GPI capacity in innovation—product launches, testing throughput, and external collaboration—to meet strategic demand.* **Customer impact:** Partner with CHEP Sales, Marketing, and Leadership to scope and deliver customer projects at the Innovation Center from definition through execution, ensuring measurable value.* **Global collaboration:** Manage and collaborate across countries; delegate effectively and contribute directly to cross‑functional teams.* **Budget ownership:** Manage and optimize budgets for **Innovation Center (IC)** and **Product Testing Team (PTT)**; track spend, ROI, and value creation.* **Talent management:** Develop engineers and support staff; drive succession planning, skills growth, and engagement.* **Data leadership:** Establish core data collection and reporting for product design and testing; ensure high‑quality technical documentation and traceability.* **External partnerships:** Collaborate seamlessly with external engineering service providers for specialized analyses, testing, and scale-up.* **Test program development:** Define robust test programs—select the right tests, sample sizes, timelines, resources, and budget requirements.* Bachelor’s degree in **Mechanical Engineering** preferred, Master’s in Engineering beneficial.* 3+ years managing technical staff.* Demonstrated strength in **data analysis**, experimental design, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication.* Hands‑on experience with **mechanical equipment**, especially laboratory and materials testing equipment.* Strong **3D CAD** background (Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks) with CAE tools to optimize designs.* Broad project management experience, interfacing with diverse stakeholders; proven ability to manage staff and a large project portfolio with composure and professionalism.* Broad product design experience across materials and applications, with emphasis on **plastics/composites** components and assemblies; ability to evaluate material suitability based on mechanical properties.* Statistics‑driven data analysis (e.g., Minitab, SAS, Statistica) in the context of experimentation, tolerances, and performance metrics.- ~7+ years’ mechanical engineering design and analysis experience in a high‑performance product development environment with strong exposure to **product testing** and **performance analysis**;* Design/analysis with **composites and laminates**; packaging design.* Diverse manufacturing process experience; complex product assembly/configuration management; product data management.* Product and materials regulatory experience; **intellectual property** exposure.* Cost estimating, spend management, and project financial analysis, knowledge of **wood** as an engineering material.* Experience leading **remote production/design engineering** across multiple countries* Data management (databases, Product Data Management); technical presentations, analysis, documentation.* Strong 3D CAD proficiency (Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks); mechanical design, product testing, and evaluation.* Project management & leadership; **customer‑facing credibility**.* Deep understanding of material properties for design & optimization; predictive engineering techniques (**CAE**), **FMEA**, statistical analysis, and data interpretation.* Some experience with **structural analysis (FEA)** in mechanical engineering design.* Strategic and original thinker; strong leadership and people management.* Desire and ability to **lead and grow** technical and non‑technical staff.* Outstanding verbal and written communication, including strong presentation skills and customer service.* Skilled with office productivity tools—especially advanced **MS Excel**.
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