Director of Hardware Engineering

3 weeks ago


Worcestershire, United Kingdom Brightsmith | B Corp™ Full time

Senior leadership opportunity for a Director of Hardware Engineering with a core focus on developing ev charging products. You will lead teams in the successful development and launch of new and innovative charging hardware products. Specifcally looking at New Product Development (NPD) taking projects through initiation, design, development, and into successful production. You will lead, mentor and expand your multi-disciplined engineering team, whilst engaging with outsourced suppliers to increase development capacity.

This position requires significant experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams, and an in-depth understanding of the product development process and product life cycle. It is essential that this candidate has a previous knowledge of Electronic product development or products with embedded electronics within it.A background of developing technology products for volume manufacture would also be really useful.

Key responsibilities;

  • Leading a multi-disciplined team of engineers Electronics, Firmware, Mechanical, Installation Assurance. Developing high quality manufactural products.
  • Grow your network across industry and with our stakeholders and large-scale customers to lead definition of our hardware product roadmap
  • You’ll ensure your delivery team are focused on clear and accurate product specifications so they can deliver great projects at pace using our gated NPD development processes
  • Work closely with our Software Products team to ensure overall integration of hardware with App services
  • You’ll select the right engineering resources to deliver product work packages for both internal and external partners.
  • Work alongside Systems and Certification team to ensure all our hardware products are developed to be compliant with the relevant international standards UKCA, CE, UL, FCC etc
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure products are supported by well documented guides such as technical hand-over packs, production instructions, design guides and installation guides
  • Provide technical support of existing products, including ensuring customer and quality concerns are proactively monitored, and any required engineering changes are executed in a timely manner
  • As overall design responsibility, you’ll ensure your team drive cost effective hardware BOM costs and designed for manufacturing



​Key skills

  • ;Degree level qualification in a relevant subject matter - ideally electronic knowledg
  • eSignificant experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams, with an in-depth understanding of the product development process and product life cycl
  • ePrevious work with manufacturable product with a electronic or embedded electronic capacit
  • yIdeal experience covering the entire technology stack involved in connected EV charging products including mechanical design, electronic design and embedded firmwar
  • eKnowledge of key engineering design tools e.g. Altium/Kicad, SolidWorks and a range of programming IDE


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