HARDWARE TEAM LEADER – CONTRACT 12 MONTHS – ROCHESTER

As a Hardware Team Leader, you will lead a team of highly skilled and experienced hardware engineers responsible for the support to our production programs within products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety critical technology.

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team

Work package management; cost, schedule, risk & opportunities

Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand

Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes

Leading cost & performance trade-offs

Essential Skills / Proven ability

Able to demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle.

Proven experience / knowledge of cost and planning management tools.

Proven ability in optimising solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies.

Proven ability in the design and identifying improvements to working practices and team skill development.

Proven understanding of product design and work package control.

Root cause and target areas of improvement, focusing on failure reduction and MDBF.

Knowledge of supporting a production program.

Desirables

PLD / FPGA design.

Requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS.

Work-package management tools, eg. MSP, JIRA, etc.

Able to effectively lead, coach and technically guide others.

Articulate, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Be able to hold detailed technical discussions with internal stakeholders and customers alike.

Be confident, able to present at customer and senior level reviews.

Have good relationship management skills.

Able to work collaboratively with other disciplines to optimise solutions and minimise impacts.