Electronic Hardware Project Engineering Manager

Job Title: Electronic Hardware Project Engineering Manager
Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Circa £70,000 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

1. Responsible for the end-to-end coordination and delivery of engineering activities within a hardware development environment.
2. Act as the central point between system design, technical authorities, and project delivery to ensure that the right people, tools, and priorities are aligned to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.
3. Lead daily stand-up meetings, reviewing team progress and short-term priorities to ensure alignment across engineering activities.
4. Collaborate with technical authorities to adapt schedules, assess cost and schedule risks, and drive mitigation and re-planning when needed.
5. Maintain close oversight of project control data, identifying and escalating resource requirements, delivery risks, and shifting priorities to the wider business.
6. Own the delivery of engineering content, coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to ensure successful outcomes.
7. Interface with key stakeholders including project managers, design authorities, and subcontractors, ensuring technical and delivery goals are met.
8. Ensure compliance with engineering governance, safety, and assurance processes, while also mentoring junior engineers and continuously improving delivery practices.

Your skills and experiences:

1. Essential: Degree STEM qualified, or equivalent experience.
2. Chartered engineer, equivalent or working towards.
3. Strong understanding of a core engineering discipline, with the ability to engage across related technical areas and interpret complex engineering issues.
4. In-depth knowledge of engineering planning, engineering maturity, and the full engineering lifecycle, particularly in a hardware or systems context.
5. Solid understanding of project management principles, including scheduling, resource planning, risk mitigation, and cost control.
6. Experience leading a multidisciplinary engineering team (typically 12 engineers), ensuring timely delivery of technical outputs to agreed requirements.
7. Proven ability to navigate and solve complex technical challenges, balancing risks, trade-offs, and stakeholder expectations.
8. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams, and interface with both internal stakeholders and external partners when required.

Benefits: You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.