Technical Director
Location: Scunthorpe/Sheffield
Salary: Up to £100K p.a. (plus car or car allowance)
Are you an experienced Technical Director looking for a role within an iconic British company. You can make a real impact and help shape the future.
About the Role
Responsible for defining and delivering British Steel’s technical, metallurgical and innovation strategies. The role ensures British Steel delivers market-competitive steel products, drives continuous improvement across processes and technologies, and supports British Steel’s transformation toward a low‑carbon, high-performance future.
The Technical Director provides strategic oversight and technical governance for product testing & certification, quality management, product and process development and research and development across all sites.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Develop and lead technical strategy to support business goals. Act as the senior authority on standards, process and product integrity. Innovation and continuous improvement.
* Lead on the Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with ISO9001, certifications and customer specific standards.
* Oversee all testing facilities ensuring capability, accuracy and alignment to business needs.
* Strategic leader to R&D teams covering metallurgy, materials development and decarbonisation technologies. Drive development of new products, processes and technologies.
* Provide governance to drive improve in safety, stability, sustainability, cost efficiency and product quality across ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling, and finishing operations.
* Provide technical input to strategic reviews, investment cases and transition scenarios.
Act as a key technical lead to support decarbonisation, asset transition, and capability redevelopment initiatives.
* Contribute to long-term workforce and capability planning.
* Develop a highly capable technical organisation with a focus on skills development, succession planning and competency management.
* Foster a culture focused on Zero Harm, quality, continuous improvement and technical excellence.
* Ensure effective collaboration between Technical, Operations, Quality, R&D, Commercial and external partners including Academia.
What We’re Looking For
Extensive technical leadership in steel manufacturing or heavy-process industries.
Comprehensive knowledge of metallurgy, product-standards and process capability for steel production and mechanical property controls.
Demonstrated leadership in R&D, quality management and technical governance.
Experience in long-term strategic planning and transformation programmes.
Strong external-stakeholder engagement skills (Suppliers / Customers / Academia / Industry Bodies / Standards Organisations).
Understanding of ISO 9001, UKAS, and major product certification frameworks.
Qualifications
Degree in Metallurgy, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering or similar.
Chartered Engineer (CEng) desirable.
Evidence of continuous professional development in quality, R&D, strategy or operational excellence.
What we can offer you
We know our employees are our greatest asset and alongside the great benefits packages we offer, we continue to invest in their careers by providing a huge range of training and development opportunities.
Whatever your stage in life, you'll find a range of benefits to complement your work-life balance. The benefits you'll enjoy include:
* Defined contribution company pension scheme
* 27 personal annual leave days + statutory bank holidays (plus holiday scheme to purchase additional leave)
* Life Assurance
* A comprehensive Company sick pay scheme
* Private Medical Insurance
* Company car or car allowance
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Family friendly benefits including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
* Local discounts and offers (e.g. retailers, gym)
What you need to know about us
British Steel is a leading European steel manufacturer, supplying premium long products around the world.
We take great pride in our history and heritage. Not many companies can claim to have generations of families dedicating their working lives to one company, one industry. Steel gets into your blood, and this drives the passion of our people. And these 2 values deliver our third value of progress – making the products our customers want now and in the future.
British Steel has a bright future and we want you to be part of it.
British Steel is an armed forces friendly company, and we actively encourage applications from ex-Armed Forces Personnel, Reservists, Armed Forces Veterans and military spouses/partners