Location: Rochester, Kent - 4 days on site
Role Type: Permanent
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.
What the role of the Lead Hardware Engineer entails:
Some of the main duties of the Lead Hardware Engineer will include:
* Providing managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
* 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
What experience you need to be the successful Lead Hardware Engineer:
* Demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle
* Proven experience / knowledge of cost and planning management tools/optimising 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. Alongside 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
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