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From audio accessories and chargers to docks, carry solutions, and future innovations, you'll play a key role in delivering products that are trusted in demanding real-world environments.\nWorking closely with the Accessories Architect, you'll be responsible for translating product architecture, technical requirements, and design direction into practical engineering plans and delivered products. You'll coordinate development across local and remote teams, guiding products through design, validation, release, and ongoing support while ensuring they meet Tait's standards for quality, reliability, manufacturability, and compliance.\nThis is a broad and influential leadership role that combines technical depth with product ownership. You'll guide design decisions, solve complex engineering challenges, and provide technical leadership across mechanical, electrical, audio, manufacturing, and compliance considerations.\nBeyond new product development, you'll also oversee the long-term health of the portfolio, driving continuous improvement, managing technical risk, and ensuring products remain supportable and fit for purpose throughout their lifecycle.\nIf you enjoy taking ownership, leading cross-functional teams, and bringing high-quality products to market, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact on both our products and our customers.\nKey responsibilities include:\nOwn the technical direction and performance of Tait's accessories portfolio.\nTranslate product architecture and requirements into practical engineering solutions. Lead the development, validation, and delivery of accessory products.\nAct as the technical authority for accessory design and engineering decisions.\nManage product lifecycle, compliance, and continuous improvement activities.\nIdentify and mitigate risks while building engineering capability and knowledge.\nTo view the position description click here. \nŌ pūkenga - About You\nYou are an outstanding senior engineer and technical leader with broad engineering judgement and the ability to operate across hardware, electrical, mechanical, audio, compliance, and delivery environments. You are comfortable taking technical direction from architecture, turning it into practical engineering delivery, and guiding teams through the trade-offs required to get robust accessory products to market.\nYou are a “jack of all trades” engineering leader with enough depth to make sound technical decisions, ask the right questions, and bring the right specialists together. You are comfortable owning difficult delivery and lifecycle decisions, especially where product performance, compliance, manufacturability, cost, and long-term supportability must be balanced.\nYou bring:\nProven experience developing and supporting hardware products through the full product lifecycle, from design and validation through to manufacturing and ongoing product care.\nExperience working with products that have demanding audio, mechanical, environmental, or regulatory requirements.\nBroad engineering capability across hardware development, with sufficient familiarity with software and embedded systems to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.\nThe ability to translate technical requirements into practical engineering solutions and drive delivery through internal teams, suppliers, contractors, and development partners.\nExperience supporting products in market, including component obsolescence, supply chain challenges, compliance obligations, and field issues.\nStrong technical judgement, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, mentor engineers, and make sound engineering trade-offs.\nNgā painga - What’s in it for you?\nWe are an employer that is committed to making a difference for families and communities and supporting people to build rewarding careers. We achieve this through employing people who connect with our Values (Commitment to listen. Courage to Act and Integrity to Deliver) that underpin our way of working together. We are committed to investing in our people, developing both individuals and teams to support a high-performance culture.\nWe prioritise your wellbeing through health insurance, annual flu vaccinations and extra sick leave in your first year. \nWe provide a comfortable work environment through modern office facilities with free onsite parking, gym, and café. \nWe recognise your commitment through long service benefits. \nWe balance work with fun through our active social club! \nAbout Us\nFor more than 50 years, Tait Communications has been designing, delivering, and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transportation and utility customers around the world. Founded in Christchurch by Sir Angus Tait, we now have a network of customers and offices that spans the globe.\nOur employees value being part of a creative team committed to providing technological solutions that make a real difference to the communities we support. By joining Tait, you'll be joining a community of people with a wealth of knowledge and expertise, who care deeply about their work and the genuine impact it has for our customers, and who support each other to grow and develop.\nDiversity & Inclusion Statement\nTait Communications is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to succeed.\nWe are encourage applications from all backgrounds to apply.\nHow to Apply\nSound like your kind of role? If you are looking to take the next step in your career and are ready to work for a high performing organization, alongside talented people, please submit your application with CV and cover letter via our online careers site. 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