Hardware Team Lead

JAM Recruitment; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Hardware Team Leader in the City of London. The successful candidate will manage a team of engineers responsible for key technology in production programs. Responsibilities include leading the electronics design team and ensuring project adherence to company standards. Essential skills include leadership, cost management, and a strong understanding of product design. This is an opportunity to significantly impact safety-critical technology in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Able to demonstrate high performance in leading engineering teams through the full product development lifecycle.
• Proven experience with cost and planning management tools.
• Experience of design and team skill development.

Responsibilities

• Lead a highly skilled hardware engineering team.
• Manage work packages for cost, schedule, risk, and opportunities.
• Ensure adherence to company processes and technical governance.

Skills

Leadership

Cost management

Planning management

Technical governance

Product design

Tools

DOORS

MSP

JIRA

Job description

As a Hardware Team Leader, you will lead a team of highly skilled and experienced hardware engineers responsible for the support to our production programs within products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety critical technology

Core Duties

• Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
• Work package management; cost, schedule, risk & opportunities
• Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
• Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
• Leading cost & performance trade-offs

Essential

Able to demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle

• Proven experience / knowledge of cost and planning management tools
• Proven experience of optimising solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies
• Experience of design and identifying improvements to working practices and team skill development
• Proven understanding of product design and work package control
• Root cause and target areas of improvement , focusing on failure reduction and MDBF
• Knowledge of supporting a production program

Desirable

• Experience of PLD / FPGA design
• Requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS
• Work-package management tools, eg. MSP, JIRA, etc.