Your tasks
The Electronics Engineering Team Lead is responsible for leading, developing and driving the performance of the Electronics Test Team to deliver high-quality verification, validation, reliability and failure analysis activities across the full product lifecycle, from concept development through to volume manufacture and sustaining engineering.
The Electronics Engineering Team Lead is accountable for ensuring that products are thoroughly verified and validated against requirements, risks are identified and mitigated, and robust test strategies are implemented to support business objectives.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead and develop the Electronics Test Team to achieve business and engineering objectives.
- Set clear expectations, objectives and performance standards.
- Foster a culture of accountability, quality, delivery and continuous improvement.
- Conduct performance reviews, coaching and development activities.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, succession planning and skills development.
- Ensure the team has the capability and capacity to meet current and future business needs.
Planning & Delivery
- Plan, prioritise and deliver verification, validation, reliability and failure analysis activities.
- Manage project schedules, resources, risks and dependencies using Agile methodologies, Jira and MS Project.
- Ensure test readiness and delivery milestones are achieved.
- Provide accurate reporting, forecasting and escalation of programme issues.
Test Strategy & Governance
- Define and maintain verification, validation and test governance processes.
- Review and approve test plans, procedures, acceptance criteria and reports.
- Ensure appropriate test coverage, traceability and risk-based verification.
- Drive consistency, standardisation and best practices across all test activities.
Quality, Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Own and improve KPIs relating to quality, reliability, delivery, productivity and manufacturing yield.
- Develop performance reporting and dashboard metrics.
- Drive process improvements through data analysis, lessons learned and engineering best practice.
- Ensure compliance with engineering, quality and documentation standards.
Test Capability & Product Support
- Define test strategies across the product lifecycle.
- Maintain effective test infrastructure, equipment, tools and automation capabilities.
- Support manufacturing through diagnostics, yield improvement and test optimisation.
- Ensure robust, scalable test solutions are implemented for new products.
Reliability Engineering & Risk Management
- Lead reliability testing, qualification and risk assessment activities.
- Apply reliability engineering principles throughout product development.
- Lead FMEA, root cause investigations and corrective action processes.
- Drive reduction of recurring issues through structured problem-solving and continuous improvement.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Product, Design, Software, Manufacturing, Quality and Operations teams.
- Support product introduction, qualification, issue resolution and quality improvement initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership during customer, supplier and internal investigations.
- Influence business and engineering decisions through data-driven analysis and KPI reporting.
- Foster collaboration to achieve successful delivery, quality and reliability outcomes.
Your profile
- Degree qualified in Electronic Engineering (or equivalent).
- Proven experience leading and managing Electronics Test, Verification, Validation or Reliability Engineering teams with full delivery ownership.
- Strong technical expertise in electronic test methodologies, verification, validation, reliability testing and failure analysis.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex products from concept through qualification, production release and volume manufacture.
- Experience working within Agile or hybrid development environments using Jira and MS Project.
- Strong planning, resource management and prioritisation skills across multiple projects and competing business demands.
- Proven experience defining, tracking and improving KPIs relating to quality, delivery, reliability, yield and test effectiveness.
- Demonstrated experience driving accountability, performance and continuous improvement within engineering teams
- Experience developing and reviewing test plans, test procedures, qualification plans and acceptance criteria
- Strong knowledge of laboratory test equipment, automation tools and production test environments.
- Experience supporting manufacturing through yield improvement, diagnostics and production issue resolution
- Experience conducting structured root cause investigations and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
- Experience applying Reliability Engineering methodologies including MTBF, HTOL, HASS, HALT and environmental testing.
- Experience participating in or leading FMEA activities at system, subsystem and board level.
- Strong understanding of Design for Test (DFT), Design Verification and Product Qualification methodologies.
- Familiarity with quality management systems, engineering change processes and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and leadership skills.
- Ability to coach, mentor and develop engineers and technicians to achieve defined objectives and performance targets.
- Proven ability to manage technical risk, escalate issues appropriately, and deliver results in a fast paced engineering environment.
Why HUBER+SUHNER Polatis?
Our aim is to be the employer of choice and as such you can be assured of a market leading remuneration package that matches your skills and experience.
Your employment and development is at the heart of our "Fundamentals".
We have an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture within the business.