Hardware Electronics Engineering Manager
Job Description
Job title: Hardware Electronics Engineering Manager
Company: GE
Job description: Job Description Summary The Electronic Hardware Engineering Manager demonstrates accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives. In this role you will develop engineering practices that meet business needs across the organization, manage complex issues within your functional areas of expertise, manage and develop teams, be involved in long-term planning and contribute to the overall business strategy.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
The Electronic Engineering Leader is functional and technical manager to the hardware engineering teams engaged in the design, development, and qualification of electronic and electrical product solutions within the Power Distribution and Controls engineering organisation. Your responsibilities will be to: * Provide functional leadership and technical direction to your team – ensure adherence to company, regulatory and functional processes and procedures.
- Define roles and responsibilities for your team, establishing priorities for staff in your team that align with company and divisional objectives.
- Coordinate efforts within your team to assure technical quality excellence, timely and on-budget completion of work, effective use of resources and responsiveness to customer / program needs.
- Promote professional growth through timely performance feedback, ongoing coaching, conducting appraisals, performance management and participate in salary planning.
- Manage resource supply and demand for your team, including recruitment of permanent staff, placement of work at GE global sites and outsource of work packages to suppliers.
- Facilitate communication of technical and business information between organisations and within your team
- Communicate with, and provide support to senior leaders on technical, organizational, resource and staff issues.
- Work with the New Business group to plan and cost proposals for new projects.
- Guide the team to embrace an innovative approach to problem solving and design implementation by driving a Lean focus into your team.
- Ensure company compliance training requirements are implemented within your team.
Required Qualifications
- Relevant degree or equivalent qualification
- Demonstrable experience in a project leadership or new product introduction role across the full life cycle within an electronic design field, preferably within an aerospace context
- Demonstrated functional and line management experience.
- Strong knowledge of electronic product design and development activities or processes including exposure to design for manufacture & prototyping methodologies
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal, leadership and team-building skills
Desired Characteristics
- Understanding of regulatory requirements for aerospace electrical/electronic design
- An understanding of regulatory and safety requirements for safety critical products (ideally gained in an avionics or similar environment)
- Exposure to lean techniques and tools in a design environment
- Formal Management training with effective team building and project management ability.
Flexible Working
GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.
Total Reward
At GE Aviation we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.
As a new joiner to GE we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs;
Non-contributory Pension
Life Assurance
Group income protection
Private medical cover
Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell.
Security Clearance
Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security. Please see the link below for further details regarding the requirements for BPSS clearance:
Right to Work
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. For further information please visit the
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Expected salary:
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
