Head of Engineering

• Opportunity to progress to Technical Director
• Top level responsibility for engineering department.
• Bring your strong people management skills to deliver an exciting product roadmap.
• Annual bonus and additional benefits.
• South West based

This is a senior management opportunity and a chance to swoop in and bring an engineering department up to speed. You ll have full accountability and control for engineering and a multi-disciplined team of mechanical, electronic, and software engineers. They need someone who can get their engineering department on track and delivering roadmap. You ll be joining an SME with a great brand in the market, a complete revamp of their software platform planned, and plans for growth over the coming years.

They have an exciting roadmap to deliver over the next 5 years, with a particular focus on their control software, which needs some modernisation. You will have been in a role where you ve overseen NPD projects and have achieved deadlines, and you re used to timescales of less than a year. We need someone who can strategise and create the plans, not just run with an existing plan. You will be comfortable making decisions with pace, proactive, and willing to take action to reduce possible risks to projects before they happen.

It's an opportunity for you to put your stamp on this business. You'll need to be firm and have the gravitas to lead and invigorate the team. We need you to drive a culture of continuous improvement and build an environment of trust with a customer-first approach.
It'll be a balance of innovation and delivery: they operate in an exciting market, supplying both universities and well-known blue-chip companies globally. You ll have a small team with the budget for an additional headcount and be given the freedom to implement rapid prototyping techniques.

The Candidate: Head of Engineering
You will consider yourself to have strong skills in NPD delivery, and will also have:

• At least 5 years experience of successfully managing an engineering team, this can be in any electro-mechanical engineering sector.
• Expertise in planning, controlling, and delivering new products.
• Strong leadership experience in a multidisciplinary engineering design team.
• A proven track record of successfully working in a similar role.

This is a superb opportunity for any Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager who is looking for somewhere to show their capabilities.