Details:
- Salary: £55,000 - 65,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Preston Lancashire
- Date: 3 days ago
Description:
Hardware Team Leader
Location: Rochester (onsite)
Salary: £55,000 – £65,000
Copello are recruiting for a Hardware Team Leader to join a leading engineering and technology business delivering advanced safety-critical systems across the aerospace and defence sector.
This is an excellent opportunity to lead a highly skilled hardware engineering team supporting complex production programmes across cutting-edge products including Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors, and other associated technologies.
The Role
As Hardware Team Leader, you will provide both technical and people leadership to an experienced electronics design team, ensuring successful delivery across key production and engineering programmes.
You’ll play a pivotal role in driving engineering excellence, managing work packages, and supporting the ongoing optimisation of team capability and performance.
Key Responsibilities
Providing technical and managerial leadership to an electronics design team
Managing work packages including cost, schedule, risks, and opportunities
Ensuring engineering support is aligned to production programme requirements
Driving technical governance and ensuring adherence to engineering processes
Leading cost and performance trade-off activities across programmes
Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and team development
Skills & Experience Required
Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams throughout the full product development lifecycle
Strong understanding of cost and planning management tools, work package control, and dependency management
Experience identifying and implementing improvements to working practices and team capability
Knowledge of root cause analysis, failure reduction, and reliability improvement methodologies
Experience within safety-critical systems environments is highly desirable
Familiarity with requirements management and project management tools such as DOORS, MSP, or JIRA would be advantageous
What’s on Offer
This opportunity offers the chance to work on innovative, technically challenging projects within a collaborative and experienced multidisciplinary environment. The role also provides strong long-term career development opportunities within a growing and highly specialised sector