Production Engineering Team Lead - Maritime

About the role

UFORCE is seeking an Engineering and Production Lead to establish and manage its UK maritime production capability. This hands-on role involves leading the transition of innovative designs into reliable, mission-relevant products through all stages of development, integration, and testing. The successful candidate will oversee build plans, resolve multidisciplinary technical issues, and ensure repeatable quality across maritime programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead maritime products from design and prototype through integration, production, testing and acceptance.
• Establish clear build plans covering drawings, BOMs, materials, suppliers, quality gates, risks and delivery milestones.
• Run effective build and production reviews, ensuring decisions have clear owners and actions are closed.
• Resolve complex mechanical, electrical, electronic and systems-integration issues with engineers, technicians and specialist partners.
• Turn designs into repeatable production using controlled drawings, work instructions, build records and test evidence.
• Improve manufacturability, assembly, serviceability, reliability and cost through disciplined engineering changes and lessons learned.
• Deliver safe, tested products against controlled requirements and configurations, with defects and risks actively managed.
• Lead engineers, technicians and suppliers to address technical, material, quality and delivery challenges at pace.

Required skills

• Production engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Systems integration
• BOM management
• Configuration control
• Design for manufacture
• Root-cause analysis
• Fault-finding

Nice to have

• Marine engineering
• Defence industry
• Automotive engineering
• Motorsport
• Robotics
• Autonomous systems
• Supplier development
• Quality assurance

About the Company

UFORCE is a defence-technology company headquartered in London with operations across Europe, the United States and Asia. The company builds uncrewed vessels, ground robotics, aircraft, and autonomy software designed to operate as an integrated system.