Lead Hardware Engineer

Location: Leeds, LS11 8JT
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Salary: Circa £55,000
Benefits: 25 days holiday + statutory Bank Holidays, DC pension scheme, Life Assurance, Employee Assistance Programme

Instrumentel is a world-leading provider of asset monitoring solutions for precision measurement in extreme environments. Our solutions include Condition-Based Predictive Maintenance, Condition Monitoring of remote assets, and predictive analytics to improve asset performance.

We are excited to be recruiting for a Lead Hardware Engineer to join our busy team. As a Lead Hardware Engineer at Instrumentel, you will primarily be responsible for the day-to-day management of a small team of Hardware/Electronics Engineers. You will have an opportunity to work in many areas of the systems lifecycle, demonstrating your capability in many new and exciting projects. You will be responsible for leading the design, development, review, and testing of new electronic hardware. You will be expected to mentor and develop others as well as show an awareness of business operations in supporting the products you produce as well as existing solutions. Within your Team Lead role, you are expected to support performance management at individual and team levels, conducting performance appraisals (MRIBs) and one-to-one for team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Escalate to the senior management/project management teams any problems that may affect the achievement of KPIs (e.g., delivery, cost, productivity, quality) and implement corrective actions.
• Mentoring and developing the team, teaching them new skills and best practices.
• Line management of a team of engineers – helping them to develop, achieve their objectives, and deliver technical projects with excellence.
• Approve and manage direct reports' annual leave entitlements to meet the employee, customer, and business needs.
• Take the lead in the design and critical review of electronic hardware (schematics, PCBs, drawings, etc.) using appropriate tools to ensure it complies with specified requirements.
• Provide solutions to Hardware-related challenges, test solutions, option selection, and requirements analysis.
• Produce, critically appraise, and test circuits both in theory and practice as part of a test solution and development process.
• Apply analysis methods such as FMEA, FMECA, Hazard, Risk, or Kepner-Tregoe.
• Review design specifications and plans to support development and testing including functional testing and compliance such as EMC and Environmental.
• Support the planning of experiments in order to evaluate complex systems.
• Estimate the workload required to deliver solutions to technical problems.
• Communicate effectively, in speech and writing.
• Build effective working relationships with the team and with other key stakeholders based on mutual trust and respect that ensure the resolution of problems locally.
• Help create a positive, enthusiastic, supportive working environment.

Candidates will hold a relevant degree in electronics, embedded electrical systems, cyber-physical systems, or mechanically integrated electronics (e.g., Mechatronics) or closely related subject. Candidates will also be able to demonstrate their previous experience working within the electronics field as well as experience of leading a team. Candidates will have excellent communication skills.

You may also have experience in the following: Lead Electronics Engineer, Hardware Development Manager, Electronics Team Leader, Embedded Systems Engineer, Electrical Systems Manager, Mechatronics Engineer, PCB Design Engineer, Hardware Specialist, Circuit Design Manager, Hardware Testing Lead, Systems Engineer, Electronics Manager, Embedded Hardware Engineer, Technical Team Lead, Hardware Engineering Manager, etc.

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