Technical Authority Lead for Innovative Electronics Product

ghd hair

Cambridge

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

ghd, a leading British haircare brand, seeks a Lead Project Engineer (Technical Authority) for the Cambridge R&D team on a 9-month FTC. You will oversee technical delivery, coach the team, and ensure consumer-centric product development in a high-uncertainty environment.

You will work with PM/PO and cross-functional teams to define requirements, drive design, and guide manufacturing readiness, including liaising with EMS and HK NPI for mass production. Strong electronics background required.

Qualifications

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.
Strong experience with electronic control systems.
Experience of developing products used in high temperature applications.
Understanding of first principles physics.
Experience of consumer trialling of products throughout the development phases.

Responsibilities

Organising the generation of initial prototypes for evaluation and user testing.
Align with the PM and PO 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.
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.