Hardware Team Manager

Deep Sea Electronics Ltd; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday / bank holidays

Flexible holiday scheme

Bupa Healthcare & Life Assurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

5% Pension contributions

Company bonus scheme

Job summary

Deep Sea Electronics Ltd. is seeking a Team Manager (Hardware) to lead a segment of the engineering team at the Mansfield site in Nottinghamshire.

The role involves hands-on leadership, task allocation via JIRA, and ensuring high-quality outputs while guiding personal development and performance reviews. You’ll collaborate with project managers to shape plans, estimate tasks, and align technical content with project timelines.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of electronic and electrical principles.
• Solid analogue and digital circuit design.
• Experience with Altium or similar PCB design tools.
• Extensive experience in PCB design and manufacture (DfMA).
• Proficient with designing for EMC compliance with sound knowledge of EMC testing and certification.
• Experience with electrical safety certification, EN 61010-1 standard.
• Line management.
• Experience in managing a mix of remote and hybrid team of engineers.
• Usage of task management tools and bug tracking - Jira, Redmine.
• Experience in running daily standup meetings with the team and management.
• Good understanding of the waterfall and Agile development and release process.
• Line management, day to day task management, goal setting, personal development plans, holiday approval, sickness review.

Responsibilities

• Line management of a segment of DSE engineering team. Engineers are located at both the North Yorkshire and Sutton in Ashfield sites with some remote and hybrid working in place.
• Line management includes day to day task management, 1:2:1 appraisal, goal setting, creating, and guiding personal development plans, holiday approval and sickness review.
• Work collaboratively with the Project Mangers to review the technical content of projects, define and estimate the duration of tasks to form project plans, assist in making sure project plans are technically correct and appropriate timescales are being worked to.
• Work with Project managers to allocate engineering work tasks to the reporting segment, using JIRA or similar tool for task management.
• Provide technical guidance and be a mentor to junior engineers
• Review and be responsible for engineering work to ensure a high standard of output from the reporting segment
• Ensure the engineers have the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools to complete the tasks
• Work with the engineering management team to address gaps as necessary
• Work at the project inception stage to provide product and project costs estimates, feasibility studies and ensure that high level technical requirements are capture completely prior to wider engineering involvement
• Be a technical decision maker and contribute to platforms and architecture strategy
• Assist in the development of in-house tools and processes
• Support the wider company by answering technical questions
• Administration and maintenance of engineering systems, revision and variant control systems, issue management systems
• Work with other supervisors and engineering managers to ensure alignment on technology, processes, designs and testing
• Review department KPIs to ensure targets are being hit
• Depending on size of team, work hands on as an engineer for the relevant discipline
• Other ad hoc duties as and when required

Skills

Electronic principles

Analog and digital circuit design

PCB design

EMC compliance

Electrical safety EN 61010-1

Team management

Hybrid work management

Task management & bug tracking

Daily standups

Waterfall & Agile development

Personnel development & appraisal

Tools

Jira

Redmine

Job description

Deep Sea Electronics is a global leader in the design and manufacture of generator controllers, automatic transfer switch controllers, battery chargers, and vehicle and off-highway control systems. With over 200 employees across four continents, we supply our products to customers in more than 150 countries, both directly from our UK head office and through a well‑established international distributor network.

The Team Manager (Hardware) will work within the Engineering department based at our site in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. They will perform a hands‑on role within the matrixed engineering team to line manage a subset of the engineering team in the delivery of new product developments and the maintenance of existing ones.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of electronic and electrical principles
• Solid analogue and digital circuit design
• Experience with Altium or similar PCB design tools
• Extensive experience in PCB design and manufacture (DfMA)
• Proficient with designing for EMC compliance with sound knowledge of EMC testing and certification
• Experience with electrical safety certification, EN 61010-1 standard
• Team management
• Experience in managing a mix of remote and hybrid team of engineers
• Usage of task management tools and bug tracking - Jira, Redmine
• Experience in running daily standup meetings with the team and management
• Good understanding of the waterfall and Agile development and release process
• Line management, day to day task management, goal setting, personal development plans, holiday approval, sickness review

Key Responsibilities & Main Duties

• Line management of a segment of DSE engineering team. Engineers are located at both the North Yorkshire and Sutton in Ashfield sites with some remote and hybrid working in place
• Line management includes day to day task management, 1:2:1 appraisal, goal setting, creating, and guiding personal development plans, holiday approval and sickness review
• Work collaboratively with the Project Mangers to review the technical content of projects, define and estimate the duration of tasks to form project plans, assist in making sure project plans are technically correct and appropriate timescales are being worked to
• Work with Project managers to allocate engineering work tasks to the reporting segment, using JIRA or similar tool for task management
• Provide technical guidance and be a mentor to junior engineers
• Review and be responsible for engineering work to ensure a high standard of output from the reporting segment
• Ensure the engineers have the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools to complete the tasks
• Work with the engineering management team to address gaps as necessary
• Work at the project inception stage to provide product and project costs estimates, feasibility studies and ensure that high level technical requirements are capture completely prior to wider engineering involvement
• Be a technical decision maker and contribute to platforms and architecture strategy
• Assist in the development of in-house tools and processes
• Support the wider company by answering technical questions
• Administration and maintenance of engineering systems, revision and variant control systems, issue management systems
• Work with other supervisors and engineering managers to ensure alignment on technology, processes, designs and testing
• Review department KPIs to ensure targets are being hit
• Depending on size of team, work hands on as an engineer for the relevant discipline
• Other ad hoc duties as and when required

Benefits

• 25 days holiday & Bank Holidays
• Flexible holiday scheme
• Bupa Healthcare package & Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity/ Paternity pay
• 5% Pension contributions
• Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme

For full details of the job please download the job description by following the link below:

Hardware Team Manager - Job Description.pdf

For further information or an informal chat contact our Internal Recruitment Team, on 01723 890099. If this role isn't quite right for you, but you are interested in future vacancies with Deep Sea Electronics please continue to monitor our website for regular updates.

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