Head of Engineering

Modern Technical Staffing Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technical staffing firm in Cambridge is seeking a Mid-Senior Level Technical Services Manager. Responsibilities include managing a team across multiple locations, overseeing compliance and certification, and ensuring project delivery within budget and timeline. The ideal candidate has a degree in Engineering and over 5 years of experience in a leadership role. This full-time position offers an exciting opportunity to lead innovative projects in diverse sectors.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Experience managing remote and international teams.
• Strong knowledge of industry and regulatory compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical services team across multiple locations.
• Engage with various departments to support business objectives.
• Oversee multiple concurrent multi-disciplinary projects.

Skills

Process and Project Management

People Management

Lean or Six Sigma

Budget Management

Education

Degree in Mechanical, Electro-Mechanical or Electronics Engineering

Job description

Overview

An international group focused on designing, manufacturing, and integrating specialized computing platforms and complex systems for industries requiring high levels of reliability and performance for critical, certified, and/or challenging applications. We enable organizations across multiple sectors to deploy innovative and complex technical solutions to meet their operational objectives via specialized computers, tablets, complex electro-mechanical systems, and smart edge IoT platforms. We operate across seven core sectors: defense, healthcare, energy, communications, automation, transport, and leisure.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical services team, distributed through multiple locations.
• Organize and structure the department to best deliver technical services to internal and external stakeholders and for future scaling in line with the Company’s growth forecasts.
• Engagement with Sales, Operations, Finance, ITC, Security, and HR to support business objectives.
• Management, work planning, scheduling, and review of work to deliver function-specific outputs and defined milestones to business stakeholders.
• Definition, setting, monitoring, and management of Objective and Key Results (OKRs) for the department, teams, and individuals.
• Participation in the setting of the group and department budget and managing to budget with monthly reviews.
• Provision of leadership for the maintenance of appropriate levels of discipline, monitored controls, and correction to maintain consistency to brand values, culture, and work schedule.
• Regular review and management of the Skills Matrix to ensure the department has the appropriate skills and capacity required to deliver business objectives.
• Mentoring, coaching, and provisioning of constructive feedback to department staff.
• Management of multiple concurrent multi-disciplinary projects with weekly review, prioritizing and reporting, resulting in on-time and on-budget completion.
• Management and technical oversight of design reviews and key milestones to ensure quality standards are maintained.
• Oversee feasibility analysis, project scoping, resource planning, and cost estimating for project activities.
• Management of compliance and certification through collaboration with the quality departments.
• Management of actions, issues, risks, opportunities, dependencies through the project duration.
• Analysis of lessons learned and improvement actions.
• Management and sign-off of contractual, technical change control, customer acceptance, and staged invoicing of NRE deliverables.
• Architecture and design authority responsibility for solutions and products from inception to end of life.
• Oversee and approve the technical output of the department ensuring compliance with customer requirements and specifications.
• Ensure designs are optimized for purpose, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Provide subject matter expertise for engineering design in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, and Software engineering as appropriate.
• Maintain best-in-class subject matter expertise, coordinating knowledge sharing and technical training.
• Ensure smooth NPI handover to production, including BOM, build instructions, training, and ongoing support.
• Control and separation of existing and newly created IPR in design and documentation.
• Customer-facing involvement in the promotion of the business and understanding customer technology needs.
• Delivery of Opportunity Support Requests (OSRs) on time and to agreed standards.
• Preparation and review of product business cases in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Participation in the promotion of technical value proposition to prospects and customers.
• Validation and sign-off of NRE estimations from across the Company.
• Management progression via a professional engineering route.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a formal technical / engineering qualification, preferably a degree in a Mechanical, Electro-Mechanical or Electronics Engineering Discipline.
• Strong knowledge of Process and Project Management.
• Evidence of continuous ongoing self-development & education.
• Lean or Six Sigma preferred.
• Full & clean driving license.
• Engineering Management role with a minimum of 5+ years track record in senior leadership.
• Experience managing remote and international teams.
• Proven experience in people management of multi-disciplinary technical teams.
• Experienced budget setter / holder.
• Experience with product designs to meet industry and regulatory compliance standards.
• Customer / market facing technical experience in an industrial B2B market sector.
• Proven experience in leading and project managing innovation, NPD, and NPI.
• Experience in maintaining and working in a professional methodology aligned to the ISO : 9001 quality standard.
• Sector experience in one or more of: Defense, Medical, Transport, Automation, Energy or Communications.
• Experience in the preparation and presentation of technical proposals.
• Experience working for OKRs.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering, Manufacturing, and Production

Industries: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and Oil and Gas