Main characteristics
- Location
- Southampton, Hampshire
- Company
- Zenovo
- Salary
- £80000 - £90000/annum Share Options
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Category
- Engineering
Job summary
Role: Head of Engineering (Embeddded / electro mechanical)Location : Southampton (onsite 3 days per week)
Salary: up to £90,000 with shares
Reports: 4 direct, 15 in total
Role Briefing:
An opening has arisen for a leadership role in managing our clients engineering design department. The position of Head of Engineering reports directly to the General Manager and leads a multi-disciplinary technical team of engineers and technicians. The successful candidate we are seeking should have had a career progression spanning a technical specialist role in ideally an embedded, electronics or electro-mechanical engineering design discipline.
We are looking for a proven people-manager with experience of managing a multi-disciplinary engineering technical team. An individual with a robust character willing and eager to take on technical challenges and work within set time and budget constraints. Strong project management capabilities and the ability to implement appropriate remedial measures, as and when appropriate, are required.
Candidate Profile:
Currently be in a management leadership role with a Minimum of 5+ years track record.
Proven experience in managing multi-disciplinary technical teams with a blended mix of mechanical, electro/mechanical, computer configuration/integration and electronics.
Experienced budget setter/holder with responsibility for managing an assigned budget.
Sector experience working in one or more of the following industries: Defence, Automation, Medical equipment, Transport, Energy, or Communications.
Customer/market facing, consultative / solution orientated technical experience in an industrial B2B market sector with a good degree of engineering, computing, or technology related subject expertise.
Proven experience in leading and project managing innovation, and NPD and NPI.
Experience in setting up, maintaining and working in a professional and structured methodology aligned to ISO:9001 quality system with engineering function related management KPIs and able to demonstrate sound process understanding and commitment to a process driven working environment.
Experience with understanding and managing product V&V with compliance & certification as required to international standards eg. CE, FCC, 60945, DNV-2.4, MIL-STD-810, etc.
Customer/market facing, consultative / solution orientated technical experience in an industrial B2B market sector with a good degree of engineering, computing, electronics, or technology related subject expertise
Benefits: Share Options
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