Electronics Hardware Team Leader

Electronic Hardware Team Lead
Yateley, Hampshire
Permanent
Circa £50k - 65k

Our client is a leading provider of underwater navigation, positioning, communication, imaging and monitoring technology, used in offshore energy, maritime defence and ocean science industries.
They are seeking an Electronic Hardware Team Lead to report to their Head of Product Development.

Role Purpose
The Electronic Hardware Team Leader is an exceptional Engineer who demonstrates the capabilities to lead, mentor and manager other team members. The Electronics Team Leader can successfully manage conflict resolution between team members, has strong decision-making skills and acts with independence based on evidence coming from their direct reports. The Electronic Hardware Team Leader’s time is split between electronic engineering activities (at a senior level) and managing a team of engineers. The expected balance of the role between team leading and carrying out engineering tasks is expected to be approximately 30/70 up to a maximum of 50/50.

Responsibilities 
Team Leadership responsibilities:
• Lead a team of engineering, ranging from experts in analogue, digital and PCB design to apprentices or junior members of the team.
• Inspire, coach and lead direct reports to enable them to achieve individual and business goals.
• Resource allocation - Understand who in their team is best placed to the achieve the product’s goals
• Team administration, including goal setting and performance reviews. 
• Lead planning, architecture, development and validation of new hardware designs
• Apply risk / mitigation techniques at all stages of the development cycle.
• Mentor team members on technical matters to ensure they stay effective in their roles.
• Drive technical conversations on products and cross-engineering improvements.
• Investigate challenging and complex hardware issues, both in assistance to more junior members and directly with other areas of the business
• The department is responsible for maintaining existing products and working closely with the NPI department to ensure successful transition between the development and production phase

Individual technical responsibilities:
• You will design, develop, test and deliver high quality and reliability electronic hardware.
• The scope of the role includes development of electronics hardware on a range of subsea instruments developed within the department from underwater acoustic modems, Doppler velocity logs to data loggers and much more.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience 

Manufacturing
You will have had experience in a manufacturing company where you understand the consequences of the decisions you make and the importance of risk mitigation. 

Digital Electronics
Focus on low power but highly complex digital systems involving a range of digital architectures including embedded Linux and FPGA’s. 

Analogue Electronics 
Low noise, low power analogue receiver design as well as high voltage transmitter designs. Power consumption is often critical due to the power source being limited. 

Simulation 
Actively simulates designs to conform to the mantra “right first time”. 

EMC
Understand the principles of designing to meet EN60945 and other relevant standards. Altium Competent Can create circuits and has basic knowledge of PCB design techniques. 

Leadership Advanced 
Can lead others by coaching them to make the right choices 

Communication & Team Working 
Proactively communicate and work effectively with other team members, and members of other teams throughout the business to achieve project deliverables 

Embedded Software
Writing basic code to enable board bring-up and ensure testing is complete prior to hand over to Software Team

Qualifications
2:1 or above in relevant Engineering degree, such as Electronics, but not limited to.

To apply please send an MS Word formatted version of your CV across for our review and consideration.