location; Birmingham We are working with a leading UK pharmaceutical distribution and healthcare logistics business operating a highly automated distribution environment supporting the national healthcare supply chain. The site is a fast-paced, highly regulated operation where automation uptime, facilities reliability and engineering leadership are critical to business performance. This is a great opportunity for an Engineering Manager to join a well-established automated distribution site, taking ownership of the engineering function across automation, facilities, compliance and engineering team development. The site operates advanced automated warehouse systems including Knapp, Peem and Schaefer technologies, alongside specialist plant and facilities infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be responsible for ensuring the engineering function delivers maximum equipment reliability, strong preventative maintenance performance and continuous improvement across the site. You will lead, coach and develop the engineering team while working closely with operations, transport and senior leadership. This role would suit an Engineering Manager, Lead Engineer or Engineering Supervisor from a logistics, automated warehousing, FMCG or highly automated manufacturing background, who enjoys balancing technical leadership with hands-on engineering involvement. responsibilities of an engineering manager: Lead and support the site engineering team in a hands-on eng