Director of Engineering

Delta Mobrey Ltd; Camberley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta Mobrey Ltd is seeking a Chief Engineer to be the technical authority across the global engineering organisation, driving engineering excellence and robust configuration management. The role emphasizes technical depth over management, mentoring engineers and safeguarding design integrity throughout the product lifecycle.

You will strengthen governance, support regulatory compliance and lead engineering information control across electrical, mechanical and instrumentation products for global

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and developing complex engineered products.
• Strong electro-mechanical engineering background.
• Extensive experience within regulated engineering environments.
• Proven expertise in configuration management and engineering change control.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management principles.
• Practical experience with CAD, PDM, PLM and ERP systems.
• Proven ability to mentor, coach and develop engineers.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical authority across the Engineering function.
• Provide technical leadership on complex engineering and design challenges.
• Support engineers through design reviews, investigations and problem-solving activities.
• Champion sound engineering judgement and technical rigour.
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning and professional development.
• Strengthen engineering change control processes across the product lifecycle.
• Lead improvements to CAD, PDM, PLM and ERP integration.
• Develop strategies for managing and extracting value from legacy engineering information and technical data.
• Improve accessibility, governance and quality of engineering records.

Skills

Electro-mechanical engineering

Regulated environments

Configuration management

Engineering change control

Product lifecycle management

CAD

PDM/PLM/ERP tools

Mentoring engineers

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

CAD software

ERP systems

Job description

Technical Authority | Engineering Excellence | Configuration Management

Location: Frimley, Surrey (with occasional international travel)

The Opportunity

Delta Mobrey designs and manufactures safety-critical instrumentation used in demanding industrial environments around the world. We are seeking an exceptional Chief Engineerto become the technical authority for our global engineering organisation.

This is not primarily a management role. Neither is this a strategy-focused executive position.Instead, we are looking for an accomplished engineer who remains passionate about engineering and who can raise the technical capability of our engineering function, strengthen configuration management disciplines and help develop the next generation of engineers.

A significant proportion of customer orders require engineering adaptation, modification or redesign. The successful candidate will help ensure that these activities are delivered efficiently whilst maintaining robust engineering governance, configuration control and product integrity.

Delta Mobrey continues to expand within highly regulated sectors including Nuclear, Defence, Energy and Critical Infrastructure. The Chief Engineer will play a key role in ensuring our engineering capability, product governance and technical disciplines support this growth.

This role will suit an engineer who enjoys solving technical problems, mentoring engineers and ensuring that product information, engineering records and engineering decisions remain robust, traceable and controlled throughout the product lifecycle.

The Mission

To strengthen Delta Mobrey's technical capability, configuration management disciplines and engineering knowledge base whilst supporting the development of world-class engineering talent and maintaining the integrity of our products throughout their lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Act as the senior technical authority across the Engineering function.
• Provide technical leadership on complex engineering and design challenges.
• Support engineers through design reviews, investigations and problem-solving activities.
• Champion sound engineering judgement and technical rigour.
• Support the development of technical capability across all engineering disciplines.
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning and professional development.

Configuration Management & Engineering Information Leadership

• Act as the organisational authority for engineering configuration management.
• Strengthen engineering change control processes across the product lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain robust product configuration disciplines.
• Ensure traceability between customer requirements, designs, drawings, bills of materials, software, validation evidence and delivered products.
• Improve engineering governance and technical control without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Lead improvements to CAD, PDM, PLM and ERP integration.
• Develop strategies for managing and extracting value from legacy engineering information and technical data.
• Improve accessibility, governance and quality of engineering records.
• Ensure engineering data remains accurate, controlled, auditable and commercially valuable.
• Support digitalisation initiatives that improve engineering efficiency and knowledge retention.
• Strengthen product lifecycle management disciplines across the organisation.
• Support the development of electro-mechanical and instrumentation products.
• Provide technical oversight throughout the product lifecycle from concept through retirement.
• Ensure engineering solutions are technically robust, practical and commercially viable.
• Support product improvement, root cause analysis and reliability activities.
• Promote disciplined engineering approaches within regulated environments.
• Support customer-specific developments and bespoke engineering solutions whilst maintaining configuration control and product traceability.

Requirements Management & Product Governance

• Strengthen requirements management and traceability disciplines.
• Ensure clear linkage between customer requirements, design outputs, verification activities and product release.
• Support structured engineering lifecycle processes.
• Improve design governance, validation and technical review processes.
• Support compliance with quality, regulatory and customer requirements.

Engineering Capability Development

• Develop technical capability and engineering expertise across the organisation.
• Coach engineers at all career stages.
• Support succession planning for key technical positions.
• Share knowledge and engineering best practice across international teams.
• Help establish a strong technical community spanning the UK, Bulgaria and Malaysia engineering operations.

What We're Looking For

You are first and foremost an engineer.

You have built your career designing, developing and supporting engineered products, preferably sensing instrumentation for safety critical purposes in highly regulated industry sectors and have retained the technical depth, curiosity and credibility that allows you to guide and influence experienced engineers.

You are equally comfortable discussing product architecture, engineering design and technical problem solving as you are configuration baselines, engineering change control, product lifecycle management and data governance.

Most importantly, you understand that robust configuration management and engineering information control are fundamental to product quality, regulatory compliance and business performance.

Our requirements

• Significant experience designing and developing complex engineered products.
• Strong electro-mechanical engineering background.
• Extensive experience within regulated engineering environments.
• Proven expertise in configuration management and engineering change control.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management principles.
• Practical experience of CAD, PDM, PLM and ERP systems.
• Experience integrating engineering information across multiple systems and platforms.
• Requirements management, traceability and verification experience.
• Verification, validation and qualification of engineered products.
• Proven capability to mentor, coach and develop engineers.
• Strong understanding of engineering governance and quality systems.
• Degree or equivalent qualification / experience in Engineering.

Highly Desirable

• Industrial instrumentation, sensing, measurement or control products.
• Functional Safety and SIL-rated product development.
• Nuclear, Defence, Aerospace, Medical Device or similarly regulated industries.
• Product data management and digital engineering environments.
• Engineering digitalisation and transformation programmes.
• International engineering organisations.
• ISO 9001 quality management systems.
• Metrology and measurement principles.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the technical future of a well-established engineering business with a global customer base, an extensive product heritage and ambitious growth plans.You will work alongside experienced engineering managers and talented engineers whilst influencing the future direction of our engineering capability, configuration management disciplines and product development processes.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy through:

• Improved engineering excellence.
• Stronger configuration management and traceability.
• Better utilisation of engineering knowledge and data.
• Development of future technical talent.
• Enhanced support for growth in highly regulated markets.

The Ideal Candidate

The strongest candidates may currently hold positions such as:

• Principal Engineer
• Technical Director
• Head of Design Engineering
• Engineering Excellence Manager
• PLM Manager

Leadership experience is important. However, technical credibility, engineering judgement, configuration management expertise and the ability to develop engineers are the primary selection criteria for this role.

What This Role Is Not

This role is unlikely to suit candidates whose experience is predominantly:

• Programme or project management.
• Strategy and corporate leadership.
• General management without deep engineering involvement.
• Operational leadership without product development responsibility.
• People leadership without significant technical engineering expertise.
• Engineering environments where configuration management and product lifecycle control are not central disciplines.

We are looking for an engineer's engineer: someone with the technical depth to earn the respect of experienced engineers, the expertise to strengthen configuration management and engineering governance, and the passion to develop the capability of the engineering function for the future.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship.