Head of Engineering in Glasgow

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to join our Glasgow Operations team in Scotland. This opportunity is ideal for someone looking for leadership responsibility and their next challenge in a technical capacity in an environment that is both dynamic and fast paced with exciting missions and challenging schedules. You will play a critical role working with the Senior Leadership Team, accountable for providing leadership to the engineering team in delivering commercial and operational priorities including load and capacity, resource management, people development, organisational structure and establishing standard processes for safe, quality and repeatable designs for production. Joining our team means working in a collaborative and innovative environment on projects where your work literally ends up in space! We are open to hybrid working for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for engineering function including load and capacity and engineering structure
• Accountable for the monitoring and achievement of operational and/or financial results for area of responsibility
• Responsible for staffing decisions and development through the employment lifecycle
• Capability mapping and development plan for engineering function
• Accountable for all engineering and operational performance metrics (safety, quality, cost, people and delivery)
• Interdisciplinary engineering management including electronics, mechanical, systems and software disciplines
• Deliver cash and profit expectations against budget by ensuring Project Milestones / Gates are met
• Accurate engineering load and capacity plan for department
• Review forecasted work schedules (12-month outlook) to ensure that the Engineering Team contains the correct competencies and where needed recruit appropriate, qualified staff to service programs
• Customer interaction, development and collaborative workshops
• Clear development lifecycle and delivery for all assigned product lines within standard timescales and quality requirements
• Robust engineering processes along with design review quality process, to drive continuous improvement and reduction in non‑conformance
• Ensuring planned engineering activities are efficiently carried out, with particular attention given to the planning and control of labour resources and storage, control, and utilisation of materials Vs budget
• Able to interpret and negotiate customer requirements while directing engineering teams to maximise standardisation and design reuse

Skills Required

• Relevant degree or equivalent work experience
• Experienced in Design for Manufacture and Design for Test best practice
• Demonstrates evidence of people leadership and development for multi‑disciplinary engineering teams in a high technology development environment
• Experience in spacecraft engineering, with a working knowledge of space manufacturing practices and methods
• Track record with instilling standard and efficient engineering processes and/or improvement projects
• Strategic thinking and direction for functional area
• Financial and commercial acumen
• KPI Setting, delivery and management
• Critical thinking and problem solving with the ability to manage risk
• People Leadership skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Competent IT skills including Microsoft software
• Proficient in English, both verbally and written

Skills Desired

• Understanding of space preferred, or highly accredited sector such as Defence/Aerospace
• Previous experience working with small/medium sized companies
• Leadership qualification

About AAC Clyde Space

AAC Clyde Space is a leading New Space company, specialising in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments and educational organisations to access high‑quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life on Earth.

Our Growing Capabilities Bring Together Three Divisions:

• Space Data as a Service delivering data from space directly to customers
• Space missions turnkey solutions that empower customers to streamline their space missions
• Space products and components a full range of off‑the‑slew and tailor‑made subsystems, components and sensors

We aim to create a positive recruitment and selection experience across every part of our business. The company is committed to handling applications to a consistently high standard and all candidates with dignity and respect. We are committed to equal opportunities for all and to have diversity reflected within our global workforce. We believe its diversity and inclusion will allow for greater creativity and innovation to help AAC Clyde Space Group deliver the vision to help improve life on earth.

We recognise work‑life balance is important so we are open to discussions around flexible working, depending on the nature of the role and business needs.