Head of Engineering & Product Delivery

Cranleigh Scientific; Waverley; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

H-Power is seeking an established technical leader to own end-to-end delivery of its industrial technology portfolio and translate strategy into structured development programmes. You will guide feasibility through deployment, provide decisive leadership across the engineering organisation and ensure alignment with safety, quality and cost targets.

You will shape requirements, governance, risk management and design assurance, working with regulators, EPC partners and suppliers while mentoring

Qualifications

• Senior technical leadership within a multidisciplinary engineering or product-development environment.
• Experience taking industrial technology from concept to deployment and manufacture.
• Strong technical judgement and decision-making at product level.
• Experience with hazardous, safety-critical industrial processes.
• Understanding of engineering governance, risk management and design assurance.
• Leadership of multiple interdependent programmes and cross-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery across a broad product portfolio.
• Translate strategy into structured development programmes.
• Lead products through feasibility, design, prototyping, testing, certification, scale-up and deployment.
• Provide visible leadership across the engineering organisation.
• Hold teams accountable for technical quality and delivery commitments.
• Act as senior escalation point for complex technical decisions and delivery risks.
• Define requirements, system architecture, design standards and technical baselines with the Chief Engineers.
• Provide final technical assurance and sign-off on product readiness for deployment.
• Ensure safety, performance, quality, cost and schedule requirements are met.
• Establish engineering governance, stage-gate reviews, design assurance and change-control processes.
• Lead risk identification and management for technical and process risks.
• Oversee safety-by-design activities such as HAZID/HAZOP/LOPA and other risk assessments.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, suppliers, regulators and certification bodies.
• Ensure products are designed for manufacture, assembly, testing and repeatable production.
• Incorporate learnings from testing, deployment and performance into future development.
• Support external discussions with credible technical input and leadership development.

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

H-Power is seeking an established technical leader to own end-to-end delivery of its industrial technology portfolio and translate strategy into structured development programmes. You will guide feasibility through deployment, provide decisive leadership across the engineering organisation and ensure alignment with safety, quality and cost targets.

You will shape requirements, governance, risk management and design assurance, working with regulators, EPC partners and suppliers while mentoring