Job Description:

Head of Engineering

Deep Sea Electronics is a truly global company with an industry-leading brand and reputation. Based in the UK, we are a leader in electronics manufacturing, specialising in controls and automation solutions, primarily for the power generation industry and diversification into other sectors, including mobile machinery and renewable technologies. With a strong commitment to innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction, we have established a global leading brand and market share of nearly 50%.

As Head of Engineering, you will lead the operational excellence of our multi-disciplinary engineering team ensuring technology alignment, global resource efficiency, and world-class delivery standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion a culture of delivery, collaboration, and continuous improvement — empowering teams to take ownership, innovate, and grow through regular feedback and professional development
• Drive strategic alignment and execution excellence, ensuring all projects are delivered to the highest engineering standards, on time, and with measurable business impact
• Establish and maintain the Engineering Technology Roadmap, setting direction for platforms, tools, and capabilities that support long-term digital transformation and scalability
• Lead the integration of Cyber Security and Functional Safety into all engineering processes, embedding these disciplines as foundational pillars of quality and compliance
• Develop and deliver an effective Engineering Communication Plan, ensuring clarity of vision, transparency of priorities, and consistent stakeholder engagement across global teams
• Oversee and provide technical leadership to multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ensuring technical decisions align with strategic goals and architectural standards
• Be a key contributor to the setup, integration, and management of offshore engineering resources, building high-performing, globally distributed teams with clear governance and delivery models
• Collaborate with the Engineering Management Team to forecast and maintain long-term resource and capability plans aligned with product and business priorities
• Approve and guide the adoption of development tools, platforms, and key technologies
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and security across all projects. Provide general management and oversight of engineering offices and facilities, ensuring optimal utilisation, safety, and operational excellence
• Champion a segment of the product portfolio, to ensure process, product and market knowledge remains relevant
• Monitor and stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving regulations, assessing their relevance and potential to drive innovation and competitiveness

Requirements:

• Good knowledge of the power generation industry and control solutions
• Functional safety and cyber security and the CE marking process. Good understanding of electronic manufacturing process
• Understanding of product development and managing multi-discipline engineering teams
• Software development life cycles, tools and processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Familiar with combined stage gated (waterfall) / agile development approaches
• Risk identification and mitigation techniques
• Comfortable communicating with technical engineers
• Good communication skills and ability to discuss product development and areas of risk
• Enthusiastic and optimistic approaches
• Proven experience in leading new product design, development, and production
• Experience working with engineering project management teams
• Strong engineering management experience and use to working in a high-paced environment. Relevant degree-level education

Internal & External Relationships:

PMO – Collaboration on technology and product road map for high level resource planning

Technical Support – Assist with urgent customer issues, co-ordinate knowledge sharing and training

Product Management – Support during project inception stage and assist in requirements capture, application and market analysis and initial project estimates

Customers – Assist with technical sales, understanding and capturing technical requirements, will include some international travel to customer sites

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + Bank Holiday. New flexible holiday scheme
• Bupa Healthcare package & Life Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
• 5% Pension contributions
• Companywide performance-based annual bonus scheme