Hardware Engineering Manager
Content + Source + Freshness • 18 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to leadership requirements and the importance of managing engineering processes in a critical sector.
- Leverage your leadership skills in a critical engineering role
- Strong market demand for hardware engineering managers
- Impactful role in shaping engineering processes and standards
Pros
- Leadership role with extensive project oversight
- Strong demand for expertise in hardware engineering
- Opportunity to shape engineering processes in a regulated environment
Cons
- High responsibility level can lead to stress
- Requires significant experience and technical knowledge
- May involve extended hours for project completions
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid, with on-site requirements
Good fit
- Senior engineers seeking leadership positions
- Candidates with robust project management experience
- Individuals interested in hardware engineering management
Not recommended for
- Junior professionals without management background
- Those preferring non-leadership technical roles
- Candidates who struggle with high responsibility levels
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Hardware Engineering Manager
Cheadle - hybrid working (3 days on-site per week)
Akkodis are looking out for an experienced Hardware Engineer to join and support Thales in Cheadle, joining the Underwater Systems (UWS) sector and contribute to different products in the integration of hardware and system architecture.
The Hardware Engineering Manager (HwEM) is responsible for the completion of a set of engineering tasks within the committed cost, schedule, performance and quality. The related tasks may cover part or all the range of activities regarding customer needs, mission, function, architectural design, and life cycle of the hardware solution (requirements and specialty engineering, design, development, integration and verification)
Responsibilities:
To include, but not be limited to:
- Defines the Hardware development cycle in consistency with that of upper/same level elements (dependencies, co-engineering activities).
- Tailors the Hardware engineering environment (process, practices and tools) according to Company and Project requirements.
- Allocates responsibilities to individual contributors
- Participates in the specification of the functions and interfaces of products to be developed.
- Participates in the definition of the architecture, and the allocation of functions, to the components for which they have primary responsibility.
Skills:
- Experience within Systems, Hardware or Electronics Engineering within a highly regulated environment, working with multi-discipline teams of engineers
- Experience of technical leadership of either small teams or programmes of work
- Project or Programme delivery experience/knowledge would be desirable
- Engineering Lifecycle experience, ideally Chorus2 DDQS (Design, Develop, Qualify the Solution) but experience with alternative methodologies/tools is required
- Desirable experience with Project tracking, ideally Jira but other agile management tools would be desirable although not essential
Experience Required:
- Proven project or work package delivery experience
- Understanding of Engineering principles (Ideally Hardware)
- Leadership
- Project Tracking and resource management
- Budget/Financial awareness
- Naval/Maritime background
