Electronics Team Leader
* Rochester, Kent (4 days on site)
* £50,000 - £65,000 + excellent bens.
As a Electronics Team Leader, you will lead a team of highly skilled and experienced hardware engineers responsible for the support to our production programs within products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety critical technology.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with innovating projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.
What you’ll be doing:
* Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
* 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
* Control Account Management (CAM)
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
* Able to 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
* Knowledge of supporting a production program
Desirable:
* Experience of PLD / FPGA design
* Requirements management tools, such as DOORS
* Work-package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA,