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This role is available full-time for 37 hours per week Monday-Friday. Flexible or compressed working hours available. Opportunities to work from home (typically 1 day a week on average).

Shaping the future of hardware engineering at the heart of UK national security. HMGCC is at the forefront of engineering innovation, delivering high-impact, technology-driven solutions for UK national security. Through our commitment to excellence, continuous improvement, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, we push the boundaries of what’s possible. Technology and hardware are at the heart of what we do and we’re looking for an inspirational leader to shape and elevate our electronics profession.

You will lead the electronics profession working to solve the most difficult problems across a wide range of areas to support our customers to protect national security. You will oversee the development of electronics capability across the organisation, manage technical risk, mentor engineering talent, and ensure our electronics portfolio aligns with business goals. You will not just be an experienced electronics principal, but you will also have the leadership and vision to influence the long-term technical direction, standards, tools and ways of working.

This comes at a time when we are changing to embrace more open ways of working with industry, academia, and wider government, so you will be leading your part of that transformation to ensure that HMGCC continues to provide the astonishing diversity of operational technology that our most iconic national security organisations need to keep the country safe and prosperous.

More about you

To apply for this role, you will already have:

• Substantial expertise in electronic engineering. This may be demonstrated through a Chartership or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience in electronics/hardware design, with an excellent track record of leading complex projects.
• Proven experience in technical leadership, mentoring, and capability building.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present a clear vision to stakeholders at all levels to drive transformational change.

It would be beneficial if you also have the following (although these are not essential):

• Deep understanding of a wide variety of disciplines, e.g. analogue, digital, mixed-signal, power electronics, PCB design, RF, FPGA and embedded systems.
• Proficient in ECAD tools in an enterprise environment.
• Experience defining and implementing technical standards and best practices.
• Prior experience of managing and working collaboratively with external suppliers and partners.

Your personal skills

You will be someone who:

• Inspires and motivates teams to do their best in their work.
• Displays behaviours that promote a collaborative working environment which supports equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Can set and maintain a clear direction with highly focused priorities to deliver pragmatic outcomes.
• Is adept at driving a performance culture across the organisation, empowering teams to deliver, whilst holding them accountable for outcomes.
• Is skilled in problem-solving and decision-making, especially around trade-offs and risk.

Putting your skills to use

Using your diverse range of skills and reporting to the Chief Engineer, you will:

• Lead and grow the electronics profession: define vision, strategy, and roadmaps for electronics engineering within the organisation.
• Provide deep technical leadership on critical electronics and multi-discipline programmes.
• Mentor, coach, and develop a team of electronics engineers, enabling career progression, skills growth and professional excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: work with engineering leads and other heads of professions to identify emerging tools, techniques and technologies, evaluate their relevance, and guide their adoption into our products.
• Manage technical risk: lead design reviews, identify critical risks, and define mitigation strategies.
• Represent the electronics profession with stakeholders, providing expert insight.

What we offer

A positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment.

• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service.
• 8 bank holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.
• 2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).
• Pension. Our government pension scheme is Alpha. It’s a competitive, defined benefits scheme.
• Opportunities for development.
• Paid overtime or time off in lieu. Your salary is for your contracted hours. If you work more, we believe you should be rewarded for that.
• Flexible or compressed hours to support you to balance your life with your work.
• Paid parental and adoption leave and neonatal policy.
• Opportunities for mentoring and coaching.
• Free secure parking and allocated parking for car shares.
• Affinity groups – whether you are a person with a disability, part of the LGBTQIA+ community and/or from an ethnic minority background, we provide an inclusive environment, support and a variety of networks for everyone.
• Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Multi-faith prayer room. This is a quiet contemplation room for staff to use for prayer or reflection.
• 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.
• Sports & social society. We have a range of clubs and societies and offer regular subsidised theatre tickets and on-site activities.
• On site café and restaurant.
• On site nursery (subject to availability).
• Relocation Loan.

About HMGCC

We are HMGCC, the engineering specialists at the heart of the UK’s national security. We work with the national security community, UK government, academia, private sector partners and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the national security mission, creating tools and technologies that drive us ahead and help to protect the nation. We invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout your career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as well as enjoy the work/life balance many aspire to.

Equal Opportunities

Inclusion and diversity really matter to us. HMGCC are committed to providing equal opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities or who are neurodiverse. We’re not looking for any one type of person. We’re looking for talent from all different backgrounds to join our organisation, where we genuinely respect and value each other’s differences, as well as our similarities. It makes us even better at what we do.

We are proud to offer applicants who declare a disability or long-term health condition the opportunity to apply through the Offer of Interview Scheme. We aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that best meet the minimum essential criteria for this position are offered an interview where practicable.

Apply now. Discover more by clicking ‘apply’. Our recruitment team will process your application once the role has closed and everyone will get a response. Please note dependent on the recruitment requirements, we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date.

If you are relocating to the area and renting a property then we can offer an interest free relocation loan of up to £2,500, which is to be repaid in instalments over a period of 24 months.