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# Hardware Team Leader

- **Company:** Morson Group
- **Location:** Rochester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £182,686.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, Computer Engineering, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Package Management Systems, Requirements Management, SC Clearance
- **Published:** July 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/hardware-team-leader/morson-edge-job107686729

## About the Role

We seek an engineer with recent high-integrity or safety-critical industry experience (defence, aerospace, or similar), or eligible for UK security clearance., * Proven experience leading engineering teams through the full product development lifecycle.

 * Strong background in electronics or hardware engineering within a complex engineering environment.
 * Experience managing engineering work packages, including planning, cost, schedule and risk.
 * Knowledge of product development, design governance and production support.
 * Experience driving continuous improvement and implementing process enhancements.
 * Strong understanding of root cause analysis and failure reduction methodologies.
 * Experience working within a regulated or safety-critical industry.
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage at all levels.

Desirable Experience

 * FPGA/PLD design experience.
 * Experience with requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS).
 * Familiarity with project/work package management tools such as MSP or JIRA.
 * Aerospace, defence or other highly regulated industry experience.

Personal Attributes

 * Strong leadership and coaching skills with the ability to develop high-performing teams.
 * Collaborative, proactive and delivery-focused approach.
 * Confident communicator, capable of leading technical discussions and presenting to senior stakeholders.
 * Commercially aware with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
 * Committed to delivering high-quality engineering solutions in a fast-paced environment.

## Description

Our client is seeking an experienced Hardware Team Leader to lead a team of hardware engineers supporting the development and production of complex, safety-critical electronic systems within the aerospace and defence sector. This role combines technical leadership with people management, ensuring the successful delivery of engineering activities throughout the full product lifecycle., * Lead, motivate and develop a multidisciplinary hardware engineering team.

 * Manage engineering work packages, including cost, schedule, resource planning, risk and delivery.
 * Ensure engineering activities effectively support development, production and New Product Introduction (NPI).
 * Provide technical governance, ensuring compliance with engineering processes, standards and best practice.
 * Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality, productivity and delivery performance.
 * Lead technical decision-making, balancing cost, performance and programme requirements.
 * Work collaboratively with Systems, Software, Manufacturing, Quality and Supply Chain teams to deliver integrated engineering solutions.
 * Champion root cause analysis, corrective actions and lessons learned to improve product reliability and manufacturing performance.


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