Maritime Production Engineering Lead

UFORCE; Greater London; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE in London is seeking an Engineering and Production Lead to turn innovative designs into safe, reliable products for fast-paced maritime programs. The role is hands-on, moving between design reviews, the workshop, suppliers and product testing to deliver repeatable quality.

You will own mission-critical products, shape UK production capability, and lead engineers, technicians and partners to address technical, material, quality and delivery challenges, ensuring safety and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex physical products from design or prototype into repeatable production.
• Broad engineering understanding across mechanical, electrical/electronic and integrated systems.
• Strong production-engineering knowledge, including drawings, BOMs, work instructions, configuration control, testing and design for manufacture.
• Experience leading engineers, technicians, production teams or multidisciplinary build activity.
• Proven ability to identify critical-path risks and recover builds under pressure without compromising safety or quality.
• Practical fault-finding and root-cause analysis experience in workshop, manufacturing, integration or test environments.
• Clear communication, strong ownership and sound judgement in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
• Ability to work regularly at UK sites and travel to suppliers, build partners and delivery locations when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead maritime products from design and prototype through integration, production, testing and acceptance.
• Establish clear build plans covering drawings, BOMs, materials, suppliers, quality gates, risks and delivery milestones.
• Run effective build and production reviews, ensuring decisions have clear owners and actions are closed.
• Resolve complex mechanical, electrical, electronic and systems-integration issues with engineers, technicians and specialist partners.
• Turn designs into repeatable production using controlled drawings, work instructions, build records and test evidence.
• Improve manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, reliability and cost through disciplined engineering changes and lessons learned.
• Deliver safe, tested products against controlled requirements and configurations, with defects and risks actively managed.
• Lead engineers, technicians and suppliers to address technical, material, quality and delivery challenges at pace.

Skills

Product leadership

Systems integration

Manufacturing knowledge

DFM

Risk management

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor collaboration

UK site work

Job description

UFORCE in London is seeking an Engineering and Production Lead to turn innovative designs into safe, reliable products for fast-paced maritime programs. The role is hands-on, moving between design reviews, the workshop, suppliers and product testing to deliver repeatable quality.

You will own mission-critical products, shape UK production capability, and lead engineers, technicians and partners to address technical, material, quality and delivery challenges, ensuring safety and on-time delivery.