Head of Engineering

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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%.

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
  • 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
  • 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
  • Life Insurance
  • Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
  • 5% Pension contributions
  • Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme

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Company: Deep Sea Electronics Ltd
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Location: Mansfield
Job Description:

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%.

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
  • 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
  • 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
  • Life Insurance
  • Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay
  • 5% Pension contributions
  • Companywide performance based annual bonus scheme

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Posted: May 20th, 2026