Hardware Team Lead

Company: JAM Recruitment Ltd
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

Hardware Team Lead

£87.83 per hour (Inside IR35) – Negotiable

12 months

On site: Monday to Thursday – Rochester (Kent)

Responsibilities

  • Provide managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team for production programs across products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety-critical technology.
  • Manage work packages including cost, schedule, risk and opportunities.
  • Ensure the engineering team supports production program demand.
  • Provide technical governance and ensure adherence to company processes.
  • Lead cost and performance trade-offs.

Essential Skills

  • Demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle.
  • Proven experience with cost and planning management tools; ability to optimise solutions and minimise impacts from dependencies; product design and work package control.
  • Experience in design improvements to working practices and team skill development, with focus on root cause analysis and targets for improvement, including failure reduction and MDBF.

Desirable:

  • Experience with Safety Critical Systems and requirements management tools such as DOORS, or work-package management tools such as MSP or JIRA.

The Hardware Team

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to formulate and optimise innovative hardware engineering solutions for products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors, and other associated safety-critical technology.

This role provides the opportunity to work on innovative cutting-edge projects as a member of a highly experienced, diverse team, with the potential to progress your career in this industry.

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Posted: July 20th, 2026