Technical Director: Strategy, Innovation & Compliance

Jackson Hogg Limited; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite working

Job summary

Jackson Hogg Limited invites applications for a Technical Director to join the Board and lead the company’s technical agenda. The role oversees technical strategy, innovation, product and technology roadmaps, engineering capability, compliance and product integrity across a multi-discipline function.

Reporting to the Managing Director, the post supervises ~25 staff including Heads of Engineering, Project Delivery, Compliance and Verification/Validation. Based onsite at the UK HQ near Stevenage.

Qualifications

• Senior technical leadership in an electronics-based product business.
• Board, executive or divisional leadership experience covering strategy, investment and risk.
• Delivery of complex hardware and software products through certification and industrialisation.
• Experience with regulated, safety-related or high-integrity products.
• Degree in engineering or science or equivalent senior technical depth.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute three-to-five-year technical strategy and roadmap.
• Provide Board-level leadership on investment, risk, product and capability decisions.
• Govern NPD from concept through verification, certification, industrialisation and launch.
• Protect product integrity, compliance and controlled change throughout lifecycle.
• Transform sustaining engineering into a governed, knowledge-led capability.
• Build technical leaders, succession planning and external partnerships.

Job description

Jackson Hogg Limited invites applications for a Technical Director to join the Board and lead the company’s technical agenda. The role oversees technical strategy, innovation, product and technology roadmaps, engineering capability, compliance and product integrity across a multi-discipline function.

Reporting to the Managing Director, the post supervises ~25 staff including Heads of Engineering, Project Delivery, Compliance and Verification/Validation. Based onsite at the UK HQ near Stevenage.