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Bristol, Bristol
Chief Engineer
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Contract Type: Permanent |
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Overview
Company Our client is recognised as one of the global market leaders within industrial innovation, working in collaboration with some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies to push the boundaries of world-class engineering design and development. Utilising cutting edge technologies and specialist expertise, our client develops and implements composite manufacturing technologies and systems to build complex prototypes and validate design concepts. This allows companies of all sizes to strip away the risks of innovation and make investment decisions when confident an idea can be scaled up to deliver on a commercial scale. To build on the organisation’s success and to remain as a global leader in industrial innovation, our client has committed to a significant investment programme in order to build a new business unit to accelerate the adoption of digital technologies, process and skills to enable engineering of ever more complex products, more quickly and at lower-cost. This new business unit will be a global leader in engineering excellence and act as the catalyst for the development and validation of enhanced digital technologies such as 5G, the internet-of-things, artificial intelligence, cyber security and advanced visualisation technologies to create innovative engineering solutions of the future. The business is now looking to recruit a new Chief Engineer to join their senior management team. Chief Engineer Responsibilities To support the development of the Digital Engineering capability as part of future national and regional initiatives To help secure future funding and deliver major programmes of collaborative research and development within the domain of Digital Engineering Accountable for the technical delivery of all programmes / projects within the sector by providing technical governance and where relevant, acting as technical authority / independent reviewer Ensure Digital Engineering programme / project scope and deliverables meet customer requirements and expectations In coordination with the CTO and the Head of Digital, lead the technical strategy for the Digital Engineering business unit, working with the Value Stream Managers, customers and wider industry to formulate and deliver technical roadmaps To line manage Provide the technical interface with Industrial members within the sector, ensuring that their short and long term product / industrial requirements are captured and understood Define the technical direction for the sector by formulating and maintaining sector technology roadmaps in line with customers and wider industry demand and develop direct reports within the business unit Skills and Competencies Required Masters in Engineering (Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical) or Maths or other relevant degree / qualification Significant relevant experience of working within the Digital Industry Strong knowledge and experience of engineering processes Experience of people management Significant experience of providing technical governance and leadership to engineering programmes Experience of managing time, cost and quality in engineering projects An established reputation for excellent knowledge in the Digital Engineering field and a track record of carrying out world class innovative research and development programmes Experience of writing technical proposals for funding bodies such as TSB, EPSRC, EU Frameworks Broad knowledge of design, manufacturing and verification / validation method