Our client is seeking a Hardware Team Leader to join its defence and aerospace engineering team in Kent on a permanent basis. The role involves providing technical and managerial leadership to an electronics design team supporting safety-critical products, including helmet-mounted and head-up displays, mission computers, flight controls and active inceptors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing managerial and technical leadership to a team of hardware and electronics engineers
- Managing work packages, costs, schedules, risks and opportunities throughout the product lifecycle
- Working closely with production teams to ensure engineering activities support programme demand
- Providing technical governance and ensuring compliance with company processes and relevant standards
- Leading cost and performance trade-offs while driving continuous improvement
- Reporting task status, technical maturity and delivery risks to project management
- Reviewing resource requirements with functional management and supporting effective team planning
- Coaching team members and helping to develop technical capability and working practices
Job Requirements:
- Significant experience leading and managing engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle
- Strong knowledge of electronics design and hardware engineering within a safety-critical environment
- Experience managing costs, schedules, dependencies, risks and work packages
- Understanding of risk and compliance requirements within the defence, security or aerospace sectors
- Experience identifying improvements to engineering processes, reducing failures and improving reliability
- Familiarity with systems full lifecycle activities, technical governance and product design control
- Experience using work package or project management tools, including Jira; knowledge of DOORS or MSP would be advantageous
- Strong communication, coaching, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills
Benefits:
- Opportunity to work on innovative, safety-critical defence and aerospace technologies
- Permanent position within a highly experienced and multidisciplinary engineering team
- Professional development and opportunities to progress within the engineering sector
- Collaborative working environment supporting continuous improvement and technical innovation
If you are an experienced Hardware Team Leader with a background in electronics design, systems lifecycle management and engineering leadership, apply now to contribute to the development of advanced defence and aerospace solutions in Kent.
