About Us:

Role Overview:              

Team Leadership & Management:

• Lead, develop, and manage the Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering and Physics teams.
• Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, performance reviews, and development planning.
• Build a collaborative and accountable engineering culture focused on technical excellence and delivery.
• Allocate engineering resources effectively across projects and priorities.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and retention of engineering personnel.
• Mentor engineers and support technical career progression.

Technical & Project Oversight:

• Oversee the technical delivery of multidisciplinary engineering projects from concept through to manufacture and installation.
• Ensure engineering activities are executed in accordance with technical, quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional design reviews and technical decision-making.
• Support system architecture and high-level technical trade-off decisions.
• Ensure designs are practical, manufacturable, serviceable, and compliant with relevant standards.
• Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Responsibility for the technical qualification of manufactured and installed products through the Physics Team. 

Engineering Process & Continuous Improvement:

• Develop and improve engineering processes, documentation standards, and workflows.
• Promote structured design methodologies, configuration control, and engineering governance.
• Drive continuous improvement in product reliability, engineering efficiency, and development quality.
• Support implementation and maintenance of engineering tools, systems, and best practices.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and incorporated into future projects.

Strategic & Commercial Contribution:

• Contribute to engineering strategy, technology roadmap development, and innovation planning.
• Support cost reduction, manufacturability, and product lifecycle initiatives.
• Assist with technical planning, budgeting, and resource forecasting.
• Support bid and proposal activities with technical input and feasibility assessments.

Compliance & Safety:

• Ensure engineering activities comply with applicable safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
• Promote safe engineering practices and adherence to company procedures.
• Support risk assessments, design reviews, and compliance documentation.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
• Significant engineering experience within a multidisciplinary technical environment.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams or technical project groups.
• Strong understanding of product development and engineering lifecycle processes.
• Experience managing complex technical projects involving multiple engineering disciplines.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience working to (and ideally implementing) design and development activities under ISO9001
• Experience within scientific instrumentation, electromagnetic systems, vacuum systems, precision engineering, or related advanced technology sectors.
• Familiarity with regulated or high-specification engineering environments.
• Experience supporting transition from R&D into production.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles.
• Experience with engineering change control and configuration management processes.

Key Competencies:

• Technical leadership
• People management
• Strategic thinking
• Project delivery
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Decision-making under uncertainty using risk-informed evaluation
• Resource planning
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Commercial awareness

Success Measures:

• Successful delivery of engineering projects to schedule and budget.
• Engineering quality and reduction of technical issues.
• Effective utilisation and development of engineering teams.
• Improvement in engineering processes and documentation standards.
• Positive collaboration between departments.
• Contribution to innovation and product development objectives.