Engineering Team Lead

Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.Expleo UK are currently seeking Engineering Team Leads to deliver against the following technical projects (Quality, ME and Engineering) within our Clients premises in Stevenage. 

Responsibilities

• Delivery
  • Support Projects Launches to ensure that new projects are launched seamlessly and satisfy the customer demands.
  • Support the technical delivery of (Quality, ME or Engineering) engineering projects on time and quality, providing technical governance to the engineering team.
  • These roles are to be delivered alongside current duties presently being undertaken within each specialisation onsite.
• Customers
  • Support the Project Management and Operations Team with quotations, assessing and documenting technical risks, to ensure the projects create profit for the business.
  • Build a good working relationship with the customer base to help identify new opportunities and solve issues efficiently.
• Governance
  • Pro-actively identify and resolve technical problems and rationally develop optimal solutions to meet specification, using appropriate tools/knowledge, escalate when appropriate.
  • Support Tech Authority in defining robust quality processes (e.g. operating processes & best practice documents).
  • Identify & manage continuous process improvement and excellence.
• Capability
  • Responsible for developing and maintaining engineering capability within team.
  • Ensure the team follows the appropriate Expleo and customer Best Practice in QMS.
  • Carry out annual & mid-term appraisals and maintain constructive feedback throughout the year.
  • Feedback to the Head of Business any team/individual training requirements.
  • Provide guidance & mentor less experienced engineers within team.
  • Ensure new team members feel valued and are onboarded efficiently following company processes.
  • Identify high performers and recommend team members for rewards.
• Operational
  • Support in managing resource and the scheduling of workload.
  • Support management in accurate forecasting of future work.

Qualifications

•  Relevant qualifications dependant upon specialism being undertaken (Quality, ME or Engineering), ONC, HNC.

Essential skills

• To provide support to your team to ensure that we deliver projects to a high technical standard, in a timely fashion.
• Work with your teams to effectively communicate weekly technical progress of their project/output delivery status to the Business Manager as well as the customer if required.
• Work with your team to identify, develop, test and deliver cost saving initiatives.
• Develop team members through new skills, adding responsibility and encouraging them to contribute to team activities.
• Develop all team members so they have an appreciation of the different functions that are involved in the delivery of the project.
• Create a positive working relationship where people feel valued for the skills and knowledge that they bring to the team and build a team culture of rewarding behaviour.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of team leadership

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events,and much more!   
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive