UK Deployment Lead – Autonomous Industrial Systems

HIVE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hive is expanding its UK deployments in Physical AI, delivering autonomous machine deployments across industrial sites. This role leads end-to-end customer deployments, coordinating engineering, operations, and site readiness with a hands-on approach at customer sites.

You will define deployment playbooks, drive risk management, and ensure safe, on-time handovers while scaling Hive’s UK deployment practices and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex deployments in industrial/field/customer environments.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of deployments, commissioning or operational projects.
• Excellent planning, coordination and execution skills.
• Comfortable coordinating technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on mentality with changing priorities.
• Strong safety mindset.
• Willingness to travel extensively across the UK.
• Professional fluency in English and authorization to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Own UK customer deployments from kickoff through handover.
• Build and maintain the integrated deployment plan across people, machines, hardware, software, logistics, site readiness and dependencies.
• Establish milestones, owners, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Drive execution and raise risks before they become delivery problems.
• Ensure deployments are delivered safely, on time and to the expected quality.
• Coordinate infrastructure, connectivity, machines, operating areas and safety requirements at client sites.
• Lead on-site deployment activities with Hive Engineering and Operations.
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, testing, validation and acceptance activities.

Skills

Project management

End-to-end ownership

Planning & coordination

Stakeholder management

Safety mindset

Travel flexibility

English fluency

Job description

Hive is expanding its UK deployments in Physical AI, delivering autonomous machine deployments across industrial sites. This role leads end-to-end customer deployments, coordinating engineering, operations, and site readiness with a hands-on approach at customer sites.

You will define deployment playbooks, drive risk management, and ensure safe, on-time handovers while scaling Hive’s UK deployment practices and capabilities.