Technical Director

H-Power is creating a new Technical Director position to lead the delivery of its ammonia-to-hydrogen, fuel-cell and clean-power technologies.

You will take ownership of H-Power’s current product-development portfolio, leading programmes from defined concept through engineering, testing, certification, manufacturing readiness and customer deployment.

This is a key leadership appointment with responsibility for the Chief Engineers, R&D and engineering functions. You will provide the day-to-day technical direction, governance and accountability needed to move several interconnected technologies towards commercial delivery.

You will:

• Take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery across H-Power’s product portfolio.

• Translate technology strategy and early-stage concepts into structured product-development programmes.

• Lead products through feasibility, detailed design, prototyping, testing, certification, scale-up and deployment.

• Provide visible, decisive leadership across the engineering organisation.

• Hold teams accountable for technical quality, delivery commitments and the timely resolution of engineering challenges.

• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical decisions and product-delivery risks.

• Work with the Chief Engineers to define requirements, system architecture, design standards and technical baselines.

• Provide final technical assurance and sign-off on product readiness for deployment.

• Ensure products meet safety, performance, quality, cost and schedule requirements.

• Establish and strengthen engineering governance, stage-gate reviews, design assurance and change-control processes.

• Ensure technical decisions and product documentation form a clear, coherent and auditable technical basis.

• Lead the identification and management of technical and process risks.

• Oversee safety-by-design, HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA and other formal risk-assessment activities.

• Work closely with manufacturing, procurement, commercial teams, suppliers, EPC partners, regulators and certification bodies.

• Ensure products are designed for manufacture, assembly, testing and repeatable production.

• Incorporate learning from testing, deployment and operational performance into future product development.

• Support customer, partner, investor and regulatory discussions with credible technical input.

• Develop the engineering leadership team, address capability gaps and create a strong culture of ownership and delivery.

You will be an established technical or engineering leader with experience developing complex industrial technology and taking it through to commercial delivery.

You should be able to demonstrate:

• Senior technical leadership within a multidisciplinary engineering or product-development environment.

• Experience taking industrial technology from initial concept and prototype through testing, certification, customer deployment and repeatable manufacture.

• Strong technical judgement and the credibility to challenge senior engineers and make difficult product-level decisions.

• Experience with complex industrial equipment involving hazardous chemicals, gases, pressure systems, high temperatures or other safety-critical processes.

• A strong understanding of engineering governance, technical risk and design assurance.

• Knowledge of process-safety methods such as HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA or QRA.

• Experience managing several technically interconnected programmes at different stages of maturity.

• Leadership of multidisciplinary teams covering areas such as process, mechanical, electrical, controls, software, systems, testing and manufacturing engineering.

• Experience working with external engineering partners, suppliers, EPC contractors, regulators or certification bodies.

• The ability to improve engineering processes while remaining…