Engineering Manager, Robotics & Autonomy

Ocean Infinity; Southampton; On-site; GBP 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity is seeking an Engineering Manager to own the people, organisational capability and engineering capacity of a group of engineers within our Robotics & Autonomy team. This is a senior, people-leadership role focused on people development and delivery.

You’ll work with team leads to scale the engineering group, maintain high performance, and ensure resourcing aligns with company priorities, while safeguarding team health and collaboration across sites.

Qualifications

• Several years’ experience managing and developing software engineers.
• Track record of hiring, retaining and developing engineering talent into senior/lead roles.
• Comfortable balancing competing demands for engineering capacity across multiple projects.
• Strong 1:1 coaching and feedback skills with fair performance handling.
• Technical credibility to earn trust of engineers you manage.
• Experience with capacity/resource planning and trade-off decisions.
• Genuine care for people’s development and hard conversations when needed.

Responsibilities

• Line-manage a group of engineers: run regular 1:1s, give feedback, and own their career development.
• Own performance management, recognition and reward for your engineers.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding and retention across your group.
• Own capacity and resource planning – decide where engineering resource is deployed and flag constraints early.
• Work with engineers to allocate them to projects, and manage workload to deliver on time with quality.
• Collaborate with product and other leads to balance capacity constraints.
• Build succession and technical leadership within your group.
• Protect team health, engagement and working environment.

Skills

People management

Hiring

Coaching

Capacity planning

Resource planning

Performance feedback

Technical credibility

Leadership

Tools

ROS

Job description

Ocean Infinity is seeking an Engineering Manager to own the people, organisational capability and engineering capacity of a group of engineers within our Robotics & Autonomy team. This is a senior, people-leadership role focused on people development and delivery.

You’ll work with team leads to scale the engineering group, maintain high performance, and ensure resourcing aligns with company priorities, while safeguarding team health and collaboration across sites.