Technical Lead

This role is responsible for leading the development of our electro-mechanical products, taking them through the design lifecycle, ensuring suitability for manufacture and compliance with customer requirements. The ideal candidate will require project engineering, design, and requirement analysis skillsets to enable high quality outputs. You must also appreciate the wider understanding of engineering in terms of design for safety, security, maintainability, and manufacturability. You will be expected to provide expertise and leadership to the hardware engineers in the development of electro-mechanical products. You will be expected to lead the most complex and critical projects and problems, managing risks and driving a cross-functional team to deliver high quality to stringent deadlines. In addition, you will be expected to support the hardware engineering manager in the execution of strategic hardware goals, including development of people, processes and tools. In this position you will be the technical expert on a dedicated project(s) and be responsible for driving the product development, supported by the specific engineering design functions. Essential Responsibilities: Lead technical work packages alongside experienced project managers, to demonstrate progress and balance technical risks Deliver functional deliverables to cost and schedule Manage the Technical Compliance Matrix for the product or equipment Major contributor in technical progress meetings and milestone reviews with the customer Understand and contribute to the key activities in the engineering development lifecycle such as design reviews (PDR/DDR/CDR) Work within a multi-discipline engineering team (e.g. Systems, mechanical, electrical, software etc...) Responsible for the quality of deliverables from the function, reviewing deliverables produced by engineers, ensuring processes are followed within the various projects. Limit technical risks through application of mitigation strategies Ensure technical excellence and quality standards across all design phases, including prototyping, testing, and validation Operate in the early lifecycle of a project, to drive technical direction for the equipment under development and clarify stakeholder needs Expected to liaise with customers and suppliers professionally regarding projects, able to communicate complicated issues and solutions effectively, building trust with external stakeholders. Develop relationships with engineering project leads, programmes and cross-functions to ensure engineering aspects are considered, planned and executed Lead engineering work packages and projects, coordinating a multi-functional engineering team to deliver against cost and schedule.