Hardware Team Manager

Deep Sea Electronics is a global leader in the design and manufacture of generator controllers, automatic transfer switch controllers, battery chargers, and vehicle and off-highway control systems. With over 200 employees across four continents, we supply our products to customers in more than 150 countries, both directly from our UK head office and through a well-established international distributor network.

The Team Manager (Hardware) will work within the Engineering department based at our sitein Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. They will perform a hands-on role within the matrixedengineering team to line manage a subset of the engineering team in the delivery of new product developments and the maintenance of existing ones

• Solid understanding of electronic and electrical principles
• Solid analogue and digital circuit design
• Experience with Altium or similar PCB design tools
• Extensive experience in PCB designand manufacture (DfMA)
• Proficient with designing for EMCcompliance with sound knowledge of EMC testing and certification
• Experience with electrical safety certification, EN 61010-1 standard
• Team management
• Experience in managing a mix ofremote and hybrid team of engineers
• Usage of task management toolsand bug tracking
  - Jira, Redmine
• Experience in running daily standupmeetings with the team and management
• Good understanding of the waterfall and Agile development and release process
• Line management, day to day task management, goal setting, personal development plans, holiday approval, sickness review

• Line management of a segment of DSE engineering team. Engineers are located atboth the North Yorkshire and Sutton in Ashfield sites with some remote and hybrid working inplace
• Line management includes day to day task management, 1:2:1 appraisal, goal setting, creating, and guiding personal development plans, holiday approval and sickness review
• Work collaboratively with the Project Mangers to review the technical content of projects, define and estimate the duration of tasks to form project plans, assist inmaking sure project plans are technically correct and appropriate timescales arebeing worked to
• Work with Project managers to allocate engineering work tasks to the reporting segment, using JIRA or similar tool for task management
• Provide technical guidance and be a mentor to junior engineers
• Review and be responsible for engineering work to ensure a high standard of output from the reporting segment
• Ensure the engineers have the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools to complete the tasks
• Work with the engineering management team to address gaps as necessary
• Work at the project inception stage to provide product and project costs estimates,feasibility studies and ensure that high level technical requirements are capture completely prior to wider engineering involvement
• Be a technical decision maker and contribute to platforms and architecture strategy
• Assist in the development of in-house tools and processes
• Support the wider company by answering technical questions
• Administration and maintenance of engineering systems, revision and variant control systems, issue management systems
• Work with other supervisors and engineering managers to ensure alignment on technology, processes, designs and testing
• Review department KPIs to ensure targets are being hit
• Depending on size of team, work hands on as an engineer for the relevant discipline
• Other ad hoc duties as and when required
• 25 days holiday & Bank Holidays
• Enhanced Maternity/ Paternity pay
• 5% Pension contributions
• Company wide performance based annual bonus scheme

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Usage of task management tools and bug tracking
- Jira, Redmine. Experience in running daily standup meetings with the team and management. Good understanding of the waterfall and Agile development and release process. Line management.