Lead Design Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

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Location: Multiple locations are available, Crawley, Stockport or Somerset.

Hybrid working: 3 days on site per week

About the role

The Lead Design Engineer is responsible for managing engineering tasks within defined parameters of cost, schedule, performance, and quality commitments. This role focuses on the design, development, and production of a specialised hardware solution currently manufactured abroad. A key challenge is aligning the technical documentation with local manufacturing capabilities and resolving cross-border communication bottlenecks to ensure seamless production and delivery.

What you'll be doing

• Lead both UK and non-UK based engineering teams. Oversee coordination between mechanical design engineers, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities, and track task completion timelines. Hold daily stand-ups to align teams and resolve issues efficiently.
• Manage the accuracy and feasibility of mechanical designs for production abroad. Collaborate with engineers to ensure mechanical tolerances meet the necessary specifications for local manufacturing.
• Focus on improving response times to queries from the overseas team. Streamline communication between both teams, ensuring faster feedback loops and technical issue resolution.
• Identify and address gaps in the existing Data Pack, working to modify or redesign components where necessary to better align with foreign production requirements.
• Lead hardware engineering packages from requirements through design, development, and IVVQ, ensuring alignment with project milestones. Tailor engineering processes to meet company and project-specific needs.
• Maintain relationships with suppliers to ensure that client requirements are met during procurement and implementation, particularly with respect to the challenges posed by cross-border manufacturing.
• Prepare monthly engineering dashboards for reviews and support the Work Package Manager by defining work package descriptions in alignment with plans, cost, and budget.

Your experience

• Proactive leadership in both team and technical management.
• Strong background within either electrical, mechanical design, systems engineering, and design lifecycle management.
• Excellent skills in team collaboration, communication, and problem-solving. Ability to manage risk and challenges across geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience in requirements management, problem-solving, and ensuring alignment with manufacturing capabilities.

You will have the following

• Experience within Systems, Hardware, Electronics, or Mechanical Engineering in a highly regulated environment, managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience with Engineering Lifecycle Management, including technical leadership, design tolerances, and lifecycle reviews (PDR, CDR).
• Knowledge of Engineering Tools: Familiarity with Primavera P6, Chorus2, DDQS, JIRA, or other lifecycle management tools.

About us

Akkodis is a global leader in the engineering and R&D market that is leveraging the power of connected data to accelerate innovation and digital transformation.

With a shared passion for technology and talent, 50,000 engineers and digital experts deliver deep cross-sector expertise in 30 countries across North America, EMEA, and APAC. Akkodis offers broad industry experience, and strong know-how in key technology sectors such as mobility, software & technology services, robotics, testing, simulations, data security, AI & data analytics.

The combined IT and engineering expertise brings a unique end-to-end solution offering, with four service lines – Consulting, Solutions, Talents and Academy – to support clients in rethinking their product development and business processes, improve productivity, minimize time to market and shape a smarter and more sustainable tomorrow.