Hardware Team Lead

Overview

In this role you lead a hardware and electronics engineering team working on safety-critical defence and aerospace products, including helmet-mounted displays, mission computers, and flight controls. You ensure technical governance, manage work packages, and drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle. You collaborate with production and cross-functional teams to align engineering activities with programme demands. The position combines leadership, technical excellence, and a focus on reliability and compliance, within a highly skilled multidisciplinary environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Permanent position
• Professional development and progression opportunities
• Collaborative working environment
• Opportunities to work on innovative safety-critical technologies
• Experience in defence and aerospace domains

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

Key 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

• Strong communication
• Coaching
• Problem-solving
• Electronics design and hardware engineering in safety-critical environments
• Systems lifecycle activities and technical governance
• Product design control

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