Production Engineering Team Lead - Maritime

About the role

What you’ll do

Required Skills

• Experience taking complex physical products from design or prototype into repeatable production.
• Broad engineering understanding across mechanical, electrical/electronic and integrated systems.
• Strong production-engineering knowledge, including drawings, BOMs, work instructions, configuration control, testing and design for manufacture.
• Experience leading engineers, technicians, production teams or multidisciplinary build activity.
• Proven ability to identify critical-path risks and recover builds under pressure without compromising safety or quality.
• Practical fault-finding and root-cause analysis experience in workshop, manufacturing, integration or test environments.
• Clear communication, strong ownership and sound judgement in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
• Ability to work regularly at UK sites and travel to suppliers, build partners and delivery locations when required.

Nice to have

• Experience in marine, defence, automotive, motorsport, robotics or another high-reliability hardware sector.
• Experience developing electronic or integrated electro-mechanical products.
• Experience with maritime platforms, autonomous systems or uncrewed surface vessels.
• Background in a start-up or scale-up combined with experience of a disciplined OEM or high-performance engineering environment.
• Supplier-development, quality, test, certification or regulated-product experience.
• Experience leading distributed teams or delivery across UK and international locations.
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Qualifications

• Experience taking complex physical products from design or prototype into repeatable production.
• Broad engineering understanding across mechanical, electrical/electronic and integrated systems.
• Strong production-engineering knowledge, including drawings, BOMs, work instructions, configuration control, testing and design for manufacture.
• Experience leading engineers, technicians, production teams or multidisciplinary build activity.
• Proven ability to identify critical-path risks and recover builds under pressure without compromising safety or quality.
• Practical fault-finding and root-cause analysis experience in workshop, manufacturing, integration or test environments.
• Clear communication, strong ownership and sound judgement in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
• Ability to work regularly at UK sites and travel to suppliers, build partners and delivery locations when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead maritime products from design and prototype through integration, production, testing and acceptance.
• Establish clear build plans covering drawings, BOMs, materials, suppliers, quality gates, risks and delivery milestones.
• Run effective build and production reviews, ensuring decisions have clear owners and actions are closed.
• Resolve complex mechanical, electrical, electronic and systems-integration issues with engineers, technicians and specialist partners.
• Turn designs into repeatable production using controlled drawings, work instructions, build records and test evidence.
• Improve manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, reliability and cost through disciplined engineering changes and lessons learned.
• Deliver safe, tested products against controlled requirements and configurations, with defects and risks actively managed.
• Lead engineers, technicians and suppliers to address technical, material, quality and delivery challenges at pace.