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
- 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 Holidays
- New flexible holiday scheme
- Bupa Healthcare package
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
- 5% Pension contributions
- Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme
Pay: £75,460.17-£125,746.05 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Sutton-In-Ashfield NG17 5LD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have hands-on experience with functional safety standards (e.g., IEC 61508 or similar)?
- Have you been involved in cybersecurity considerations for engineering products or systems?
- Do you have experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams (e.g., software, hardware, systems)?
- Have you managed engineering teams in a product-based (not purely service-based) environment?
- Do you have direct experience working in the power generation or energy sector?
- Have you worked with control systems or control solutions in an engineering context?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sutton-In-Ashfield NG17 5LD
