Reports to: General Manager, or in a large organisation, the Manufacturing/Production Manager.
Main objectives: Managing the engineering function to improve operating performance, reducing waste and delays, promoting cost reductions and a high level of efficiency and supervising engineers and engineering staff.
Typical functions and responsibilities:
- Review and evaluate engineering work and prepare long range plans to attain objectives.
- Exercise financial control over expenditure subject to overall policy.
- Exercise control over production and review the quality of finished products in a predominantly engineering operation.
- Exercise control over efficient functioning of engineering plant in coordination with production and other operating areas in a manufacturing operation.
- Assist in overcoming technical problems.
- Exercise functional control over selection, training, evaluation and development of engineering staff as an administrator.
- Keep up to date with relevant national and international engineering practices and techniques.
- Assist in strategic planning.
Typical qualifications and experience: Qualifications in engineering and broad experience in an appropriate field, together with extensive experience at a senior level. | 
