Manufacturing & Product Industrialisation Lead

Mode Labs

Oxford

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 80,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Employee share option
25 days leave
Company pension
Life & legacy cover
Training allowance
Volunteer day
Travel-to-work loan
Flexible working

Job summary

Mode Labs is hiring a senior, hands-on engineering leader to own productisation and industrialisation of the first commercial sensor platform. You will translate MVP into a robust, compliant, manufacturable product and lead a path from prototype to controlled production, working with engineering, quality, operations and supply chain.

You will mentor and build a manufacturing team, define BOMs, tests and regulatory pathways, and drive readiness gates and supplier qualification to scale

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in NPI and product industrialisation.
  • Proven track record taking hardware from prototype to controlled production.
  • Experience with verification, compliance and external certification testing.
  • Strong knowledge of DFM, production test, tooling and quality planning.
  • Experience leading pilot builds and data-led improvements in yield or cost.
  • Experience coordinating with suppliers and manufacturing partners.

Responsibilities

  • Own the industrialisation roadmap, development stages, release gates and production-readiness criteria.
  • Lead DFM, DFA, design-for-test, service and reliability activities across interfaces.
  • Establish a controlled product definition covering BOMs, drawings, specs and software dependencies.
  • Lead pilot and pre-production builds and translate results into design/process improvements.
  • Determine regulatory and certification routes for markets and use.
  • Own verification/validation strategy with traceability and testing methods.
  • Coordinate pre-compliance testing with advisers and labs.
  • Develop environmental and reliability testing for remote deployment.

Skills

NPI
Manufacturing engineering
Cross-functional leadership
DFM
DFA
QA planning
Supplier management

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

QMS software
DFMEA

Job description

Mode Labs is hiring a senior, hands-on engineering leader to own productisation and industrialisation of the first commercial sensor platform. You will translate MVP into a robust, compliant, manufacturable product and lead a path from prototype to controlled production, working with engineering, quality, operations and supply chain.

You will mentor and build a manufacturing team, define BOMs, tests and regulatory pathways, and drive readiness gates and supplier qualification to scale

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