Head of Engineering

Job Title: Head of Engineering

ResponsibilitiesFleet Availability

• Own fleet-wide availability as your primary KPI: Accountable for the engineering strategy, standards, and decisions that protect and improve it across the multi-brand fleet.
• Turn availability data into engineering priorities: Identify the bad actors, recurring failure modes, and systemic issues dragging the fleet down, and direct your teams’ effort where it moves the number most.
• Safeguard contractual performance: Ensure engineering activity supports availability guarantees and warranty positions, and flag risks early.
• Report on availability: Communicate trends, root causes, and the engineering actions taken to leadership and, where relevant, to clients.

Engineering Leadership & Oversight

• Lead the engineering teams: Set their direction, standards, and priorities, develop their capability, and hold them accountable for resolution quality and speed.
• Ensure rigorous root‑cause analysis: Accountable that complex and recurring faults are investigated to a consistent standard and resolved at the true mechanism, not that you perform the analysis yourself.
• Review and approve high‑stakes conclusions: Challenge weak analysis and sign off findings on fleet‑threatening, safety‑critical, or warranty‑related failures.
• Act as the senior technical authority: The top of the escalation path for strategic or cross‑fleet issues, sitting above the escalation teams rather than as first‑line support.
• Own the engineering knowledge base: Ensure lessons learned, failure history, and standard repair methods are captured and reused across the fleet.

Service Modifications & Continuous Improvement

• Continuously seek upgrade opportunities: Proactively identify ways to improve turbine reliability, performance, and lifecycle cost through service modifications, retrofits, and upgrades across the multi‑brand fleet.
• Build the case for modifications: Assess technical merit alongside cost, downtime, and availability/return impact, and present it in terms owners and the commercial team can act on.
• Drive approved campaigns to completion: Own the engineering side of modification rollouts from design through field implementation and close‑out.
• Maintain an improvement pipeline: Keep a prioritised backlog of initiatives ranked by their effect on availability, safety, and cost.

Stakeholder & Supplier Management

• Manage OEM, supplier, and consultancy relationships: Evaluate external engineering studies critically and integrate sound findings into fleet strategy.
• Support the commercial function: Provide technical input to proposals, warranty disputes, and end‑of‑warranty inspections, and help frame engineering value commercially.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering judgement on complex, multi‑brand failures — enough depth in drivetrain, power conversion, and control systems to challenge a root‑cause analysis, even though you will not be hands‑on.
• Track record of leading or managing technical teams.
• Commercial literacy, able to frame engineering decisions, especially modifications, in terms of availability, cost, and return, and to navigate client and internal stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with SCADA, condition‑monitoring, fault logs, and supplier documentation.
• Willingness to travel.

Benefits

At Full Circle, we offer a competitive pay and benefits package, including pension contributions, health and life insurance, an electric car scheme, holiday purchase options, gym discounts, and access to our employee support program.

We also support personal career growth and flexible career pathways.

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