Head of Simulation in Solihull

We’re looking for a Head of Simulation to join our team.

SUMMARY OF ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead, inspire and manage a growing team of Simulation Consultants and Technicians, setting clear expectations, maintaining high morale, and ensuring quality delivery.
• Act as a mentor and technical authority, providing day-to-day guidance, coaching, and direction while still contributing directly to selected projects.
• Conduct regular 1-to-1s and performance reviews, identify development needs, and maintain a clear succession and growth plan for the team.
• Build a culture of openness, accountability, and innovation where technical excellence and commercial focus go hand in hand.
• Recruit and onboard new talent to meet future growth and capability needs.
• Personally lead or contribute to key client projects, particularly where high technical complexity, strategic value, or stakeholder visibility is involved.
• Set the technical standard for the team through examples, demonstrating best practice modelling, documentation, validation, and communication.
• Work in partnership with the Business Unit Director to develop a workable three-month resource plan for upcoming projects and opportunities.
• Support pre-sales and proof-of-concept builds that showcase ITI’s expertise and drive new client engagements.
• Oversee the delivery portfolio, ensuring projects are executed on time, within scope and budget, and to the highest professional standards.
• Act as senior technical and strategic advisor to clients, shaping engagements and translating technical results into clear business value.
• Contribute to thought leadership, authoring blogs, presenting at conferences, and developing materials that showcase ITI’s simulation capability.
• Follow all health and safety regulations, procedures and protocols.
• Line management and functional responsibility for assigned team.

Summary Of Requirements

• Proven leadership experience within a simulation or digital-twin consultancy or team.
• Hands-on expertise with one or more leading simulation platforms (FlexSim preferred; AnyLogic, PlantSim, Witness, Simul8, etc.).
• Strong track record of simulation project delivery and client engagement.
• Honours degree in a relevant STEM or Engineering discipline.

Skills And Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to balance people leadership with personal project delivery.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial awareness with ability to link technical work to client outcomes and profitability.

VALUES

• Deliver what we promise
• Safety and Security
• Technical Mastery
• Continual Learning
• Collaboratively
• Innovation

What You’ll Love About Working Here

As a Great Place to Work® certified organisation with over 50 years of deep technology expertise, you’ll work alongside specialists who solve complex, real-world challenges. You’ll gain exposure to intelligent systems that power critical facilities - building skills that shape safer, smarter, and more sustainable operations.

What We Can Offer You

Inspire and innovate with us; Join ITI Group, a place where you can shine! Find out more about what we can offer you by visiting our careers page on the ITI Group Website.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, 8 Bank Holidays, plus the ability to buy and sell up to 5 days per year
• Flexible start and finish times, including flexi-Fridays
• Competitive Employee Referral Award Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Payment of professional membership fees
• Healthy Extras - Employee Assistance Programme, access to a practising GP, Confidential Advice
• Enhanced family friendly policies

Note: Candidates should note that to be considered for this role, they must meet the eligibility criteria for National Security Vetting (NSV). Employment will be conditional upon successfully obtaining this clearance during probation.

ITI is an equal opportunities employer. For more information, please refer to our Equality of Opportunity statement on the ITI Group Careers page.

Please note: to help our interviewers stay fully engaged in the conversation, we use an AI note taker during first-round interviews. It will join the meeting to create a transcript, which is used only to support the hiring process.