Calibration & Maintenance Engineering Team Lead

Calibration & Maintenance Engineering Team Lead

You will lead a calibration function where your team ensures critical test and measurement equipment is accurate, compliant and fully operational, giving you real ownership of technical standards and team output. This role gives clear responsibility for both people leadership and hands on technical oversight in a regulated engineering environment.

What you will need

• HNC or HND or above in electronics engineering or equivalent
• Proven experience managing engineering teams or leading technical staff
• Strong understanding of test and measurement equipment and calibration principles
• Experience working to engineering standards and audit requirements

Salary and rewards

£50,000 plus performance related bonus up to £2,500 per year

What you will be doing

• Leading a growing team of engineers and technicians within calibration and maintenance
• Overseeing calibration and repair of commercial off the shelf (COTS) test and measurement equipment
• Managing compliance with calibration standards and audit requirements
• Supporting workload planning and delivery across laboratory operations
• Working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure service levels are met
• Using systems such as Fluke METCAL for manual and automated calibrations

Skills and experience

• Strong background in electronics engineering within a calibration or test environment
• Proven people management experience in an engineering setting
• Knowledge of calibration principles, calibration controls and equipment capabilities
• Experience supporting audits and compliance processes
• Ability to manage workload and coordinate technical teams
• Exposure to SAP or JIRA beneficial but not essential

Benefits and flexibility

You will enjoy practical benefits including

• Company performance bonus up to £2,500
• Paid overtime opportunities
• Flexi leave up to 15 additional days

Location and setup

Stevenage: 5 days per week on site

Security clearance: Due to the nature of work at our client’s site, these vacancies are only open to British Citizens who can obtain SC clearance.

This is a permanent role.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high-technology industries. Thank you for your interest. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You may resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then.