Head Of Engineering

Fortress Recruit is supporting a leading technology and engineering solutions provider in their search for a Head of Engineering. This is a senior leadership role with strategic and operational responsibility for managing a multi-disciplinary engineering function, delivering high-integrity products and systems across diverse industrial sectors. Key responsibilities will include: * Leading and developing the Technical Services department, ensuring the team is structured, skilled, and resourced to meet business objectives and future growth. * Providing leadership across mechanical, electrical, electronic, and software engineering disciplines, setting performance expectations and departmental OKRs. * Overseeing delivery of multiple complex projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget completion and adherence to quality, safety, and compliance standards. * Acting as design authority for system and product architecture from concept through to end-of-life, ensuring optimisation for reliability and manufacturability. * Managing engineering budgets, resource allocation, and performance reporting to the senior management team. * Championing technical excellence and innovation through mentoring, coaching, and continuous improvement initiatives. * Supporting customer engagement, bid activity, and opportunity assessments to shape winning technical solutions. * Ensuring compliance with ISO9001 processes and maintaining best-practice engineering governance. * Driving process enhancement, documentation control, and scalability to meet business growth objectives. To be successful in this role, you will have: * Minimum of 5 years in a senior engineering management or technical leadership role. * Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary teams within sectors such as Defence, Automation, Medical, Transport, Energy, or Communications. * Strong technical understanding across mechanical, electrical, electronic, and software disciplines. * Experience managing budgets and resources within a process-driven, ISO9001 environment. * Proven capability in NPI/NPD project management, product design compliance, and certification (CE, FCC, DNV, MIL-STD, etc.). * Strong commercial acumen and the ability to engage confidently with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders. * Excellent leadership, communication, and organisational skills with a collaborative, proactive approach. * A degree or equivalent qualification in an Engineering or related technical discipline. This role provides opportunity to lead a highly skilled engineering function within a forward-thinking, growth-oriented organisation. You’ll shape departmental strategy, drive technical capability, and play a key role in the company’s continued success across global markets. This is a full-time, permanent position based in Fareham, offering hybrid working flexibility. On offer is a salary of c80-90K DoE, plus bonus and benefits package. Please click apply with your updated CV, or contact Becki Evans for a full job description or confidential discussion