Lead Project Engineer (NPD)

North America, LLC; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the hair care industry is seeking a Lead Project Engineer in Cambridge to oversee the development of innovative hair styling products. This role involves leading project teams, managing technical aspects, and coordinating with various stakeholders to ensure successful product launches. Candidates should possess a strong engineering background with experience in electronics and project management.

Qualifications

• Must have significant experience in design technology and electronics.
• Strong experience with electronic control systems is essential.
• Experience in developing products for high temperature applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams in new product development.
• Manage technical delivery and decision-making processes.
• Ensure smooth transfer of products to manufacturing.

Skills

Project Management

Electronics-based product development

Planning and organizing

Communication

Relationship building

Education

Degree or HNC/HND in Design and Technology

Tools

House of Quality

Requirements Management tools

Job description

ghd Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

ghd Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

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The Lead Project Engineer develops high performance and high-quality hair care products. Working alongside the product owner and project manager they form a crucial part of the project leadership team.

This individual will be accountable to the business for the technical delivery of a new product to market. They are provided with a multi-disciplinary team, budget, a timeline, and stakeholder requirements. Within these constraints they work to deliver the best consumer centric product possible.

They are expected to manage technical unknowns through curiosity to deliver products with a high degree of innovation. Making decisions with the business on the trade-offs between the key deliverables (Performance, business case and delivery schedule). They are the most senior full time allocated team member on the product development, as such they are the first point of call for decision making and escalations.

As the day-to-day leader of the team within R&D it is the Lead Project Engineer’s responsibility to coach the various team members on the expectations in terms of ways of working: setting an example on accountability (I do what I commit to do), communication (open, clear and consistent) and agile work practices.

An excellent engineer fosters a team that can depend on each other, challenge each other, and hold each other accountable to work in the best interest of the project. By working this way, they break down the complexity into a series of builds to answer specific unknowns of the product development. They value learning primarily as they discover the best solution within the requirement space.

LOCATION

This role will be based in our Cambridge office.

JOB ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Organising the generation of initial prototypes for evaluation and user testing.

Product Development

• Align with the Project Manager (PMO) and CTO on project status, schedule, and deliverables.
• Working in cross-functional project teams in iterative new product development, ensuring the product requirements and system is defined, implemented, and validated throughout all phases of development.
• Utilising broad engineering experience to aid the design phases by leading the technical team in the design realisation, mechanical design, electrical integration, verification and validation of performance and end results.
• Ensure that clear owners are assigned to each key aspect of a concept or detailed design area of a product.
• Work with discipline heads to ensure that project time scales are achievable given team loadings.
• In industrialisation phases, supports the product level validation, product launch and continues support throughout the product lifecycle.

Transfer to manufacture

• Lead the team in discussions with 3rd party suppliers and the chosen manufacturer (EMS) to ensure parts and tools are qualified and sample production runs are achieved.
• To liaise with the Hong Kong NPI team to prepare the product for mass manufacture.

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree or HNC/HND educated with significant experience of working in a design and technology company or high-end electronic consumer products company.
• Strong skills and experience with electronics-based products
• An understanding of transferring complex products into manufacture.
• Exceptional planning and organising skills working within exacting timescales.
• Methodical approach with excellent attention to detail.
• Communicates well to both technical and non-technical personnel across multiple disciplines and to management committee level.
• Prepared to occasionally travel to China and EU.
• Actively seeks to build and develop relationships both internally and externally.
• An understanding of the key phases of a products development.
• Strong experience with electronic control systems.
• Experience of developing products used in high temperature applications.
• Understanding of 1st principle physics.
• Experience of consumer trialling of products throughout the development phases.
• Tools such as House of Quality, Functional assessment, DFMEA.
• Requirements management tools.

WHO ARE WE?

Iconic British brand ghd is a global leader in high end professional hair styling tools and the UK’s number one recommended styling brand. Loved by stylists and consumers, loved by press, and loved by the people that work for the brand!

Merging science and innovation, with luxury beauty and style; ghd combines cutting edge technologies and beautiful designs to create the most technically advanced hair tools in the world.

Developed by leading scientists and engineers in the dedicated ghd R&D laboratories in Cambridge, ghd tools deliver “safer for hair” heat styling that have become an essential part of the daily lives of professional hair stylists and consumers globally.

Renowned for game changing innovation and superior performance, at ghd we are on a mission to transform lives with the power of a good hair day!

VALUES

We at ghd are proudly committed to our Company Values and aim to attract and retain employees who live our Values.

• Collaborative – We work together to create the extraordinary.
• Creative – We foster creativity & excellence to create value for our brands and business.
• Courageous – We are agile, entrepreneurial & we own our future.
• Connected – We stay connected and ensure we are always consumer first.
• Committed – We are responsible for our impact on other & the planet.

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Employment type

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