Engineering Director

Purpose of the Engineering Director role

We are looking for a highly driven and motivated individual to join the board as Engineering Director. You will shape the future of this highly profitable business from an innovation and R&D perspective. Your challenge will be to rapidly grow the NPD team to deliver the new and ambitious customer-focused product roadmap which will accelerate businesses growth.

What will you be doing?

• Directing the future product strategy of the business as a member of the board
• Leading the global engineering teams (located in the UK, Spain and the Far East) developing a broad range of new products
• Ensuring the new product roadmap is delivered on time and on cost
• Questioning the status quo to bring in disruptive ideas on digital technologies
• Challenging the way we develop products, encouraging experimentation, MVP and rapid prototyping as ways to speed up time to market
• Embedding innovative thinking throughout the team
• Working with marketing and sales to create innovative and highly profitable product development
• Developing relationships with outsourced partners, suppliers, Universities and trade associations to deliver best in-class solutions for our customers

Applicants for this role should be:

• Pro-active and results driven, with an outstanding track record of delivering results
• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills, both internally and externally
• Have lead, coached and developed cross functional (Electronics, Embedded firmware, Software and Mechanical) Engineering teams, ideally in an international setting
• Be curious and disrupt the status quo with innovative thinking
• Be passionate about new technologies
• Setting high standards for yourself and others in the pursuit of excellence
• Inspirational with your passion and values
• Able to turn complex problems into simple issues
• Have a high intellect, and deep understanding of electronic engineering understanding (knowledge of cellular and phone technology is an advantage)

The Client:

• My client is a leader in specialist, safety critical products. Their brands have a strong market presence, a unique identity, a distinct product range, and a long, successful history. The group has manufacturing locations in 5 countries, R&D in 3 countries and Sales & Marketing in 11 countries and in total employees over 450 people globally.