Head of Advanced Sensing Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership
• Lead, develop and grow the Advanced Sensing Engineering function, creating a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture.
• Set team objectives, priorities and resource plans aligned to business goals.
• Recruit, develop and retain engineering talent across hardware, embedded software and product support disciplines.
• Product Development & Delivery
• Own the delivery of Advanced Sensing engineering activities, ensuring new products and enhancements
• are delivered on time, within budget and to the required quality standards.
• Drive effective engineering planning, prioritisation and execution across the product portfolio.
• Support the development and adoption of new technologies and engineering solutions.
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Provide leadership across the full product lifecycle, from concept and development through to
• deployment, support and continuous improvement.
• Ensure robust testing, validation, certification and change control processes are maintained.
• Drive product reliability improvements through effective investigation and resolution of technical issues.
• Stakeholder & Commercial Engagement
• Collaborate with Product Management, Commercial, Delivery and Customer-facing teams to translate
• market and customer requirements into engineering outcomes.
• Represent Engineering in strategic customer, partner and business discussions where required.
• Support delivery of Advanced Sensing business objectives through effective cross-functional leadership.
• Skills and Experience
• Essential
• Significant experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven track record delivering hardware or technology products from concept to market.
• Experience managing teams across product development, systems engineering, electronics, embedded software or industrial technology environments.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance innovation, cost, quality and delivery.
• Experience implementing engineering processes, governance and performance management frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Desirable
• Experience in industrial sensing, data acquisition, IoT or condition monitoring technologies.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Knowledge of product certification, compliance and quality systems.
• Experience supporting products deployed in industrial, energy or renewable energy environments.
• Understanding of manufacturing scale-up and supplier management.

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Qualifications

• Essential
• Significant experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven track record delivering hardware or technology products from concept to market.
• Experience managing teams across product development, systems engineering, electronics, embedded software or industrial technology environments.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance innovation, cost, quality and delivery.
• Experience implementing engineering processes, governance and performance management frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Desirable
• Experience in industrial sensing, data acquisition, IoT or condition monitoring technologies.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Knowledge of product certification, compliance and quality systems.
• Experience supporting products deployed in industrial, energy or renewable energy environments.
• Understanding of manufacturing scale-up and supplier management.