Job Description
Job Title: Lead Hardware Engineer
Location: Rochester, Kent
Role Type: Permanent
Salary: 60,000 - 65,000 per annum depending on experience
Our client, an established electronics manufacturing firm in Rochester, require an experienced Lead Hardware Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team.
Candidates would need to have lived & worked in the UK for 5+ years and be eligible for BPSS security clearance.
What the role of the Lead Hardware Engineer entails:
Some of the main duties of the Lead Hardware Engineer will include:
- Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
- Work package management; cost, schedule, risk and opportunities
- Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
- Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
- Leading cost and performance trade-offs
- Control Account Management (CAM)
What experience you need to be the successful Lead Hardware Engineer:
Essential:
- 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/ optimising solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies/ product design and work package control
- Experience of design and identifying improvements to working practices and team skill development. Alongside root cause and target areas of improvement , focusing on failure reduction and MDBF
- Knowledge of supporting a production program
Desirable:
- Experience of PLD / FPGA design
- Requirements management tools, such as DOORS
- Work-package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA
This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Lead Hardware Engineer to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!
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