REQ ID: 131105
JOB TITLE: Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Electrification - EDU eMachine
SALARY: £70,000 - £80,000
POSTING START DATE: 26/03/2026
POSTING END DATE: 09/04/2026
LOCATION: Whitley, Coventry, UK 

Working in Manufacturing at JLR, you'll be the hands-on expert who brings innovation to life. You'll collaborate with a team of expert technicians and problem-solvers and use cutting-edge tools, facilities, and processes engineered together to build era-defining vehicles that people across the world know and love. Your expertise will directly impact the shaping of modern luxury. Together, let’s create the exceptional. 

Come and join JLR as a Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Electrification - EDU eMachine!

You’ll play a key role in how our electrified powertrains are industrialised and delivered. This role is initially focused on supporting Electronic Drive Unit eMachine programmes, with the scope to evolve as our electrification strategy continues to grow.

Based within Manufacturing Engineering and reporting to the GME P Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager, the role takes full accountability for process and facility delivery. From early programme start through design, procurement, installation, commissioning and into production launch, you will ensure safe, high quality and robust manufacturing solutions through to Job 1 plus 90 days.

You will work across global manufacturing locations in the UK, China and India, collaborating with cross functional teams and suppliers to deliver complex programmes. This is a role for someone who enjoys ownership, problem solving and seeing engineering solutions come to life on the factory floor, helping to shape the future of JLR’s electrified manufacturing capability.

WHAT TO EXPECT

In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering high-quality outcomes and supporting the wider team through a range of responsibilities, including – 

• Interface effectively with all cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of unit programmes to approved timing, budget, and quality targets
• Manage critical equipment and facility suppliers end‑to‑end, maintaining the correct delivery cadence and strong relationships to support multiple concurrent programmes
• Ensure a safe working environment at all times by rigorously applying JLR Safe Systems of Work throughout installation, commissioning, and retooling phases
• Deliver all required PCDS gateway outputs, including robust process planning through FMEA, control plans, Industrial Engineering tools, and accurate CPU definition
• Lead the development, monitoring, and achievement of project timing plans, equipment capability and capacity targets (OEE, MTTR, MTBF), and effective management of technical issues (CCARs)
• Drive a lean, quality‑focused culture by coaching teams to deliver lean solutions, highest‑quality processes, and continuous improvement in customer and business outcomes
• Support conceptual facility planning, gateway cost estimation, and capital investment submissions, while collaborating with production engineering, facilities, suppliers, and Product Design to improve cost per unit and productivity

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring a solid background, relevant certifications, and the following key skills – 

• Proven expertise in process and industrial engineering for large scale industrial delivery programmes, including the application of structured manufacturing and engineering tools
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineering teams through complex projects, with clear, evidenced deliverables and successful outcomes
• Strong and proven project management capability, including ownership of timing, cost, quality and delivery through high pressure product launch environments
• Proven ability to lead complex problem solving activities while managing key internal and external stakeholder and customer relationships
• Solid and practical understanding of the Product Creation System and associated manufacturing deliverables within an automotive environment
• Minimum HNC qualification in engineering, mathematics or a science based discipline, with a degree preferred
• Experience in eMachine programme delivery is desirable, including rotor and stator manufacturing and CTQ process design such as hairpin forming, insulation systems and testing

BENEFITS

This role is rewarding in more ways than one. On top of our core offering, you’ll do extraordinary work with amazing people. In addition, you can expect a wide range of benefits:

• Discounted car purchase (open to family members, too)
• A 52 week maternity leave policy and a 4 week paternity leave policy. Other parental leave policies are available
• A competitive pension
• A JLR company performance-related bonus
• An employee learning scheme providing funding for; education, training and other activities which support the development of personal skills and promote lifelong learning
• Access to open, employee-led support and social networks
• Comprehensive Life Assurance and Income Protection policies
• Flexible working* 
  
  

*Flexible working is offered for specific roles dependant on responsibilities. Please speak to the hiring team for details.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs. 

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role – but you're interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.