Electric Engineering Team Leader

Electrical Engineering Team Leader Purpose of Role

• Assist with managing the day-to-day activities within the electrical and controls team.
• Ensuring technical co-ordination with all other internal and external disciplines whilst maintaining and developing processes, procedures and engineering standards.
• Other activities will include but not be limited to trouble shooting, sales and application support and team building while minimizing business risk.
• Some of this work will involve visiting customer and sites both in the UK and worldwide. You will be required to work as part of a team and in some instances as an individual.
• When required, carry out electrical design duties such as producing drawings and parts lists; develop, install and commission control software including motion control, robotics, visualization and all necessary interfaces.

• Administration (time sheets, absences monitoring, banked hours, holidays, inductions and leaving interviews).
• Monitor design progress.
• Review and sign off designs, ensuring they fit for purpose.
• Allocate and monitor resources.
• Liaise with mechanical, electrical and control engineers.
• Receive internal and external audits of the design process.
• Conceptual design.
• Support assembly shop.
• Perform engineering calculations.
• Attend/Lead design reviews.
• Test and development of new machinery.
• Problem solving during machinery test.
• Brainstorming.
• Complete engineering design estimates.
• Monitor budgetary performance.
• Allocate and agree corrective action for non-conformances.
• Monitor design to ensure customer specification compliance.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget, this may include trouble shooting through to customer acceptance and post project learning.
• Provide technical sales support and validation of sales proposals when required.
• Support the application department providing solution advice, system configuration, performance criteria, cost reviews, maximizing margin and minimizing risk and apply resources as required.
• Develop pragmatic and cost-effective strategies in response to client requirements.
• Report problems and deficiencies in the design and brief.
• Maintain files and records throughout the duration of the contract.
• Suggest solutions to problems based on an understanding of relevant technologies.
• Visit customers on a worldwide basis, as required to resolve problems and test machines/systems.
• Ensure statutory and company procedures and practices are maintained.
• Ensure all activities support the business direction of faster, cheaper and smaller machines.
• Work with and support other departments to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Deal with specifiers and/or suppliers/distributors.
• Promote a safe working environment ensuring compliance with all current legislation.
• Other duties may be requested.

• Good oral and written communication.
• Highly motivated.
• Customer focused.
• Good knowledge of labour and material costs-commercial awareness.
• Attention to detail.
• Highly computer literate.
• Flexible.
• Proactive.
• Driving license.
• Be prepared to travel to customers sites worldwide.
• Sound technical knowledge.
• Analytical.
• Ability to assess risk.
• Problem solving capability.
• Realistic and pragmatic approach.
• Team player and team builder.
• Planning & organization skills.

Minimum level 3 in electrical engineering or similar and successfully completed an apprenticeship in an engineering discipline.

Technique-Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a proud equal opportunities employer, dedicated and specialist to the engineering and manufacturing industries.