Hardware Team Lead

JAM Recruitment Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the United Kingdom is seeking a Hardware Team Leader to oversee a skilled team of hardware engineers. The role involves managerial duties, ensuring support for production programs, and optimizing design processes. Candidates should have proven leadership experience, knowledge of cost management tools, and a strong understanding of product design. This position offers an opportunity to make significant impacts in critical technology areas.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated high performance in leading engineering teams through product development.
• Experience in cost and planning management.
• Ability to identify and implement improvements in working practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an electronics design team.
• Manage work packages for cost, schedule, and risk.
• Ensure engineering support for production demand.
• Provide technical governance and adhere to processes.

Skills

Leadership and management of engineering teams

Cost and planning management tools

Optimising solutions

Design improvements

Root cause analysis

Production program knowledge

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