Job Title
Lead Hardware Engineer
Location
Rochester, Kent - 4 days on site
Role Type
Permanent
Salary
£60,000 - £65,000 per annum depending on experience
About the Company
Our client, an established electronics manufacturing firm in Rochester, require an experienced Lead Hardware Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team specialising in Aerospace electronics.
Candidates would need to have lived & worked in the UK for 5+ years and be eligible for BPSS security clearance.
Responsibilities
Some of the main duties of the Lead Hardware Engineer will include:
- Providing managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
- Being involved in work package management; cost, schedule, risk and opportunities
- Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
- Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
- Leading cost and performance trade-offs
Qualifications
- Demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle
- Have proven experience / knowledge of cost and planning management tools/optimizing solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies/ product design and work package control
- Experience of design and identifying improvements to working practices and team skill development, along with root cause and target areas of improvement, focusing on failure reduction and MDBF
- Desirable experience of the Safety Critical Systems, requirements management tools, such as DOORS or work‑package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA
Equal Opportunities
The company is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
