Hardware Engineering Lead & Team Mentor

Deep Sea Electronics Ltd; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank Holidays

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay

5% Pension contributions

Performance-based annual bonus

Job summary

Deep Sea Electronics Ltd is seeking a Team Manager (Hardware) to lead a segment of the engineering team from our Mansfield site. You will line-manage engineers across North Yorkshire and Sutton in Ashfield sites, coordinate task delivery, and guide development and maintenance of hardware projects.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive both Agile and Waterfall processes, and ensure high-quality technical outcomes while managing resource planning and development goals.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of electronic and electrical principles.
• Good analogue and digital circuit design capabilities.
• Experience with Altium or similar PCB design tools.
• Extensive experience in PCB design and manufacture (DfMA).
• Proficiency designing for EMC with knowledge of EMC testing and certification.
• Experience with electrical safety certification EN 61010-1.
• Proven team management experience with remote/hybrid teams.
• Experience using task management tools and bug tracking (Jira, Redmine).
• Experience running daily standups and managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Line manage a segment of DSE engineering team located at North Yorkshire and Sutton in Ashfield sites with some remote/hybrid work.
• Provide day-to-day task management, 1:2:1 appraisals, goal setting, and development plans; manage holiday approvals and sickness reviews.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to review technical content, estimate task durations, and form project plans.
• Allocate engineering work tasks using Jira or similar tools; mentor junior engineers.
• Review engineering output to ensure high standards across the reporting segment.
• Ensure engineers have skills, knowledge, and tools to complete tasks; address gaps with management.
• Contribute to project inception with costs estimates and feasibility studies; capture high-level tech requirements.
• Be a technical decision maker and contribute to platforms/architecture strategy.
• Develop in-house tools and processes; assist wider company with technical questions.
• Maintain engineering systems, revision/variant control, and issue management.

Skills

Electronic Principles

Circuit Design

PCB Design

Altium

EMC Compliance

Electrical Safety EN61010

Team Management

Remote/Hybrid Leadership

Agile & Waterfall

Tools

Jira

Redmine

Job description

Deep Sea Electronics Ltd is seeking a Team Manager (Hardware) to lead a segment of the engineering team from our Mansfield site. You will line-manage engineers across North Yorkshire and Sutton in Ashfield sites, coordinate task delivery, and guide development and maintenance of hardware projects.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive both Agile and Waterfall processes, and ensure high-quality technical outcomes while managing resource planning and development goals.