Technical Manager

Ministry Of Defence; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ministry Of Defence is seeking a Technical Manager in Wokingham to lead a multidisciplinary engineering team. The role is hands-on, combining technical leadership with direct involvement in electrical/electronic design, system integration and testing.

You will manage workloads, drive delivery, and ensure quality across design, manufacture and test, while maintaining close engagement with customers and programmes.

Qualifications

• Broad electronics design, manufacture and test experience.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into robust solutions.
• Experience taking systems through build, test and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary technical team.
• Oversee workload, priorities and engineering delivery.
• Electrical/electronic system design and integration.
• Support mechanical design and system integration activities.
• High-level system architecture responsibilities.
• Embedded hardware and power supplies oversight.
• Prototype build, integration and test.
• Component selection and technical specification.
• EMC and environmental testing oversight.
• Fault finding, repair and modification.
• Produce technical, build and test documentation.
• Support manufacturing and resolve production issues.
• Provide technical input during customer and commercial discussions.
• Maintain engineering and quality standards.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Mechanical experience

Team leadership

Electronic system design

Embedded hardware

Power electronics

EMC testing

Troubleshooting

Customer interaction

Quality standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

We're recruiting a Technical Manager for an established engineering and technology business based in Wokingham. This is a hands-on technical leadership position, managing a small multidisciplinary team while remaining closely involved in the engineering itself. The role is weighted towards electrical/electronic engineering, but we're specifically looking for someone with enough mechanical engineering knowledge to take a broader systems-level view. You'll be working across the design, integration, manufacture and testing of technical systems, taking customer requirements and helping turn them into robust, manufacturable solutions. Applicants must hold a British passport due to the requirements of the MOD projects supported by the business. The role You'll take responsibility for both technical delivery and line management, including:

• Leading and developing a multidisciplinary technical team
• Managing workload, priorities and engineering delivery
• Electrical/electronic system design and integration
• Supporting mechanical design and system integration activities
• High-level system architecture
• Embedded hardware and power supplies
• Prototype build, integration and test
• Component selection and technical specification
• EMC and environmental testing
• Fault finding, repair and modification
• Producing technical, build and test documentation
• Supporting manufacturing and resolving production issues
• Providing technical input during customer and commercial discussions
• Maintaining appropriate engineering and quality standards

The underlying brief requires broad experience across electronics design, manufacture and test, high-level systems design, embedded boards, power supplies and EMC/environmental testing.

The key requirement is engineering breadth. You'll ideally bring:

• Strong electrical/electronic engineering experience
• Some mechanical engineering or electromechanical systems experience
• Experience managing and developing engineers/technical personnel
• Electronic system design and integration experience
• Embedded hardware and/or power electronics knowledge
• Experience taking systems through build, test and troubleshooting
• Understanding of EMC and environmental requirements
• Strong customer-facing and technical problem-solving skills

A degree in engineering, electronics or a related discipline would be useful, although equivalent industry experience will also be considered.