Engineering Director

Engineering Director

West Sussex | Fully on site

A high-voltage electronics manufacturer is appointing a Director of Engineering to lead its UK engineering function. You’ll develop the team, improve delivery across the engineering portfolio and shape the roadmap for the next generation of high-voltage power supplies.

What you will lead

• Develop engineering managers and specialists, build succession plans and create an environment where people raise technical risks early.
• Own portfolio priorities, budgets and resource planning across new product development, research and sustaining engineering.
• Lead design governance and help engineering, manufacturing and global teams turn complex designs into reliable, manufacturable products.
• Translate customer needs into investment and platform decisions. Guide work across power conversion, digital control, embedded software and magnetics.

What you will bring

• An engineering degree, ideally in electrical or electronic engineering, with 10+ years in electronics design or manufacturing and 5+ years in general and project management.
• Evidence of leading engineering teams and delivering complex electronics programmes into manufacture.
• Strong judgement on technical risk, design governance, manufacturing controls and competing programme priorities.

Salary and benefits

Benefits include a 10% employer pension contribution with a 5% employee contribution, single private medical cover on a medical history disregarded basis, single Level 2 cash plan cover, group income protection and life cover at four times salary.

The role is fully based in Pulborough. Visa sponsorship and relocation support may be considered.

To express interest, send your CV to Terry Parris Associates and highlight the engineering teams and electronics programmes you’ve led.