Technical Director
Location: Scunthorpe/Sheffield
Salary: Up to £100K p.a. (plus car or car allowance)
Are you an experienced Technical Director looking for a role within an iconic British company? You can make a real impact and help shape the future.
About the Role
Responsible for defining and delivering British Steel’s technical, metallurgical and innovation strategies. The role ensures British Steel delivers market-competitive steel products, drives continuous improvement across processes and technologies, and supports British Steel’s transformation toward a low-carbon, high-performance future.
The Technical Director provides strategic oversight and technical governance for product testing & certification, quality management, product and process development and research and development across all sites.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop and lead technical strategy to support business goals. Act as the senior authority on standards, process and product integrity. Innovation and continuous improvement.
- Lead on the Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with ISO9001, certifications and customer specific standards.
- Oversee all testing facilities ensuring capability, accuracy and alignment to business needs.
- Strategic leader to R&D teams covering metallurgy, materials development and decarbonisation technologies. Drive development of new products, processes and technologies.
- Provide governance to drive improvement in safety, stability, sustainability, cost efficiency and product quality across ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling, and finishing operations.
- Provide technical input to strategic reviews, investment cases and transition scenarios. Act as a key technical lead to support decarbonisation, asset transition, and capability redevelopment initiatives.
- Contribute to long-term workforce and capability planning.
- Develop a highly capable technical organisation with a focus on skills development, succession planning and competency management.
- Foster a culture focused on Zero Harm, quality, continuous improvement and technical excellence.
- Ensure effective collaboration between Technical, Operations, Quality, R&D, Commercial and external partners including Academia.
What We’re Looking For
- Extensive technical leadership in steel manufacturing or heavy-process industries.
- Comprehensive knowledge of metallurgy, product-standards and process capability for steel production and mechanical property controls.
- Demonstrated leadership in R&D, quality management and technical governance.
- Experience in long-term strategic planning and transformation programmes.
- Strong external-stakeholder engagement skills (Suppliers / Customers / Academia / Industry Bodies / Standards Organisations).
- Understanding of ISO 9001, UKAS, and major product certification frameworks.
Qualifications
- Degree in Metallurgy, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering or similar.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) desirable.
- Evidence of continuous professional development in quality, R&D, strategy or operational excellence.
What We Can Offer You
- Defined contribution company pension scheme
- 27 personal annual leave days + statutory bank holidays (plus holiday scheme to purchase additional leave)
- Life Assurance
- A comprehensive company sick pay scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company car or car allowance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work schemeFamily friendly benefits including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Local discounts and offers (e.g. retailers, gym)
British Steel is an armed forces friendly company, and we actively encourage applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, Reservists, Armed Forces veterans and military spouses/partners.
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