Marine Engineering Team Lead – Delivery & Growth

Expleo Group; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Expleo Academy

Competitive benefits

Collaborative environment

Career development

Job summary

Expleo Group in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Engineering Team Leader to guide the engineering team on a Marine Defence project for a key client. Based in Derby, you will report to the Business Manager and drive results through a motivated workforce.

The role requires strong technical governance, risk management, and continuous improvement mindset to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery and high-quality outputs.

Qualifications

• Apply problem solving techniques to routine situations or situations of moderate complexity.
• Maintain high accuracy by following standardised procedures and practices.
• Coordinate people and activities to meet business demand.
• Plan, prioritise and manage different work streams, requirements and deliverables at once.
• Excellent liaison and communication with the customer, senior management, the team and wider business on a daily basis.
• Strong Engineering background for the capabilities listed.

Responsibilities

• Manages the engineering team to ensure deliverables defined in the SoW are achieved in terms of time, cost and quality.
• Fully understand the Project contractual and legislative requirements and ensure these are clearly cascaded to the team.
• Integrates all the different technical functions of the project team to ensure that the technical requirements are met.
• Ensures resource capabilities and skill allocation are suitable for the project.
• Manage and control checking of deliverables.
• Manage continuous process improvement.
• Be the technical focal point of the team and build good working relationships with customers.
• In conjunction with the PM, hold regular meetings with project Team leaders and Team members as agreed at the start of the project to ensure that the project is on track.
• Supports Project Managers in planning activities and tracking progress against the plan and identifying and prioritising project dependencies.
• Provides input into Project Managers on additional scope and change impact.
• Provide technical governance to an engineering team and ensure the technical aspects of the project comply with the QMS.
• Ensures the Quality representative has RFT data, reviews the processed results and ensures corrective actions are communicated to team members.
• Supports Project Managers on continual risk assessments during the life of the project.
• Work with your team to identify, develop, test and deliver cost saving initiatives.
• Develop team members through new skills, adding responsibility and encouraging them to contribute to team activities.
• Develop all team members so they have an appreciation of the different functions that are involved in the delivery of the project.
• Create a positive and inclusive environment where people feel valued for the skills and knowledge that they bring to the team and build a team culture of shared events and rewarding behaviour.
• Conduct annual & mid-term appraisals and maintain constructive feedback throughout the year.
• Recommends training needs, to Head of Business & Chief Engineers, of individuals in support of the project.

Skills

Problem solving

Coordination

Planning

Communication skills

Leadership

Engineering background

Education

HND/Degree in Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

Teamcenter

Job description

Expleo Group in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Engineering Team Leader to guide the engineering team on a Marine Defence project for a key client. Based in Derby, you will report to the Business Manager and drive results through a motivated workforce.

The role requires strong technical governance, risk management, and continuous improvement mindset to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery and high-quality outputs.