Hardware Team Lead
£94.24 per hour (Inside IR35)
12 months
Monday to Thursday on site - Rochester (Kent)
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.
Core duties:
- You will be providing managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
- You will be involved in work package management; cost, schedule, risk and opportunities
- You will be ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
- You will be providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
- You will be leading cost and performance trade-offs
Essential Skills:
- You will be able to demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle
- You will have proven experience / knowledge of cost and planning management tools/ optimising solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies/ product design and work package control
- You will have 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
- It is desirable you will have experience of the Safety Critical Systems , requirements management tools, such as DOORS or work-package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA
The Hardware Team:
You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to formulate and optimise innovative hardware engineering solutions, for products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors, and other associated safety-critical technology.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with innovating cutting-edge projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.
