# VP Engineering

**Company:** [Flusso Ltd](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/wAT239TpYFVXAqpurjWsmq.md)
**Location:** Cambridge, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Engineering

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## Description

**VP Engineering**

**Overview and purpose of the role**

The purpose of this role is to:

-   Ensure that products are delivered according to roadmaps, meet design requirements, are manufacturable and consistently achieve positive experiences with customers
-   Management and leadership of the Engineering team
-   Hiring new talent
-   Maintain compliance with quality standards
-   Contribute to the Company’s strategy

**Responsibilities**

**Leadership and management of the Engineering Team**

-   Contribute to company strategy and priorities as a member of the executive team.
-   Lead, mentor and develop Engineering, recruiting the talent and building the capabilities needed to deliver business goals.
-   Set clear objectives, responsibilities and delivery commitments, supporting technical specialists to succeed

**Product development and manufacturing**

-   Own engineering delivery across the product lifecycle, from R&D handover and platform development through qualification, manufacturing introduction and ongoing support.
-   Build realistic programme plans, define work packages and dependencies, allocate resources and manage change, escalating risks and delivery issues early.
-   Work with Sales and Field Applications to translate customer requirements into achievable engineering commitments and support design wins.
-   Ensure products meet performance, quality, reliability and applicable industrial, medical and automotive qualification requirements.
-   Deliver manufacturing test solutions that meet cost, yield and capacity targets.
-   Work with Operations, Quality and manufacturing partners to select suppliers and transfer products from pilot production to volume manufacture.
-   Identify opportunities to improve Flusso’s products and platforms.

**Engineering capability**

-   Establish proportionate engineering processes, standards and lifecycle practices that improve quality, repeatability and delivery efficiency.
-   Ensure teams have the equipment, software tools and facilities needed to deliver high-quality work.
-   Maintain safe, organised and well-maintained test laboratories, including compliant waste management.
-   Support compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 requirements and drive continual improvement.

**Business support activities**

-   Manage engineering budgets and capacity in line with business priorities.
-   Build effective relationships across Engineering, Sales, Field Applications, Operations, Quality and external partners.
-   Support key customer and supplier engagements, business development and marketing activities.
-   Pursue relevant government-funded R&D initiatives and technology partnerships.
-   Communicate engineering priorities, programme progress, risks and resource needs clearly to staff, the executive team and the Board.

## Requirements

**Qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience**

-   Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Engineering or Science subject.
-   Demonstrable experience leading engineering teams delivering complex hardware products through development, qualification and manufacturing introduction.
-   Strong programme planning and delivery skills, including resource planning, work-package definition, dependency management, change management, risk control and early escalation.
-   Experience introducing or improving fit-for-purpose engineering processes and product lifecycle practices that improve quality and repeatability without unnecessary bureaucracy.
-   Good technical breadth across relevant hardware product development, such as electronics, firmware, software, mechanical integration, prototyping, semiconductor or MEMS manufacturing. The role leads technical specialists; it is not the company’s principal technical authority.
-   Experience working closely with Sales, Field Applications, Operations, Quality and manufacturing partners in a customer-led business.
-   Knowledge of ISO9001 and ISO14001 quality standards and procedures.

**Profile**

-   A delivery-focused engineering leader who makes commitments visible, builds realistic plans and helps teams deliver on time and to the required quality.
-   Able to lead and develop technical specialists, challenge and clarify requests constructively, and make sound resource decisions.
-   Customer-aware and commercially grounded, with the judgement to balance delivery speed, quality, risk and engineering capacity.
-   Introduces useful engineering discipline while keeping processes proportionate, practical and suited to a fast-moving business.
-   Collaborative and decisive, with clear communication across Engineering, Field Apps, Sales, Operations, Quality, the executive team and external partners.
-   Pro active by nature, comfortable working in a technology-led, evolving business and willing to travel as required, including to partners in Europe and Asia.

## Benefits

-   Base salary
-   Bonus (% of base salary) based on company and personal performance
-   Workplace pension contribution 3% of full base salary (we can trade with salary level for higher)
-   Bupa Cash Plan Level 3 (employee only)
-   Private Medical insurance with cover for spouse/partner and dependent children
-   Group Life Insurance covers up to 4 x salary
-   25 days holiday plus bank holidays (adjusted for part time roles)
-   Support for relocation (loan discharged over two years service)
-   Hybrid home/office working, by agreement with line manager