Global Head of Engineering

Guided Solutions
Sheffield
1 week ago
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Our client is designing and manufacturing cutting-edge edge patient-specific medical devices, including anatomical models, surgical cutting guides and complex custom implants for a variety of clients such as the NHS and leading medical device manufacturers.

Due to their continued growth, they are now looking for a Global Head of Engineering to join their team.

Key responsibilities:

  • Management & Leadership of the growing UK and US Engineering Team (including staff welfare, attendance, performance and career progression pathways)
  • Implement and identify to management suitable processes to promote company's latest growth (e.g. departmental structure, renumeration, bonus schemes etc)
  • Establish and supervise training programmes to induct new engineering staff into the business, recording necessary details to feed into the qualification requirements of the Quality Management System.
  • Establish and supervise training programmes to for Level 1/2/3 new engineering staff.
  • Quality Management throughout the device design and manufacture workflow – working with the Head of QMS to ensure that processes are monitored, documented and adhered to by all staff.
  • Management and scheduling of projects to deliver efficiently, on time and in full.
  • Metrics for employee and project performance to measure success and suggest key development opportunities, reporting in regularly to senior management team.
  • Continual management of the scheduling, efficiency and working environment of engineers.
  • Lead the ongoing recruitment of the growing team. Collaborating with internal/external resources where appropriate. Including technical evaluation of new candidates, recommendations to help objective decision-making throughout the hiring process.
  • Lead by example on the design function within the product workflow, including hands-on segmentation and free-form design of patient-specific devices, according to internal QMS procedures.
  • An excellent level of technical knowledge related to human anatomy/biomedical engineering, additive manufacturing to lead and mentor the team.


To be considered for the role, you must closely match the following job profile:

  • Engineering Degree (Biomedical specialisation preferred).
  • At least 5 years’ experience leading a team of engineers in a commercial environment.
  • Sector-specific knowledge of the orthopaedic market (preferably in or alongside the design of patient-specific surgical devices).

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