Adient plc
Rising
Adient is the global leader in the automotive seating market.
- Open roles
- 117
- New role every
- ~0.6 days
- Posting trend
- 1.2× vs prior 90d
Company signals
Score: 79
Wikipedia
Yes
Repost rate (90d)
3%
GitHub org
Yes
Median listing lifespan
8 days
Posting cadence (90d/prior)
27.2x
New cities (90d)
43
Stale listings
8%
Buzzword-heavy listings
10%
Job facts
- Location
- Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
- Type
- Full-time
- Posted
- Sep 09, 2026
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Senior Manager Engineering
at Adient plc
JOB DESCRIPTION
** OVERVIEW:**
Automotive seating structures senior manager:
- Automotive seating structure product technical expert.
- Supervises & leads a group of 3-5 engineers.
- Leads technical problem solving.
- Supports manufacturing production issue resolution.
- Leads product safety technical risk assessment.
- Oversees & checks technical project execution.
- Communicates technical status and resolution plans internally & externally.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Leads the team of product & resident engineers (Plymouth, Pune, manufacturing locations):
- Represents the structures engineering team.
- Facilitates communication in internal & customer reviews.
- Guides & reviews technical issue summary documentation.
- Leads critical issue containment & problem-solving activity.
- Escalates critical issues.
- Communicates directly with manufacturing locations, Adient structural analysis engineers, Adient product safety, Adient engineering leadership, Adient business units, and OEM customer engineers.
- Supervises the team:
- Facilitates team engagement.
- Provides performance feedback.
- Flexes and leverages available resources.
- Provides mentorship & development opportunities.
- Implements company & department initiatives.
- Responsible for the team’s technical work product:
- Guides issue containment & resolution.
- Guides issue prevention and deliverable completion.
- Identifies and documents lessons learned.
- Approves drawings.
- Approves engineering deliverables.
Collaborates
- Works with manufacturing to enable efficient mass production.
- Works with business unit engineering leaders to ensure team focus & collaboration.
- Engages organizational experts for specialized expertise.
Checks
- Product engineering integrity:
- Possesses strong engineering analysis skills and ability to apply to product engineering.
- Product manufacturing feasibility based on manufacturing knowledge of:
- Component manufacturing; Stamping, tube bending, wire forming
- Assembly processes; welding (laser, GMAW, projection), bolting, rivet forming, general assembly.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
BSME required
Must have 10 + years automotive seat structure development experience
PRIMARY LOCATION
Central Tech Unit Plymouth MI