Lead Design Engineer - Team Lead Platforms

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Te Tūranga - The Role

As Lead Design Engineer - Team Lead Platforms, you will lead and support a team of engineers, creating an environment where people can do their best work and continue to grow their skills and careers. Working closely with Technical Leads, Project Leads, and other stakeholders, you'll balance delivery priorities, manage team capacity, and help ensure engineering outcomes are delivered to a high standard.

While leadership is a key focus, you'll also maintain technical involvement, providing guidance, reviewing engineering work, and contributing to the development of complex embedded software solutions.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, fostering engagement, performance, and professional growth.
• Plan and coordinate team resources across projects and priorities to achieve delivery objectives.
• Support recruitment, capability development, succession planning, and team wellbeing.
• Collaborate with Technical Leads, Project Leads, and stakeholders to manage risks, remove delivery constraints, and maintain project momentum.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance engineering quality, consistency, and delivery effectiveness.
• Act as Project Coordinator on assigned projects, overseeing planning, coordination, reporting, and risk management.
• Provide technical leadership through engineering reviews, mentoring, and hands-on contribution to product development activities.
• Champion innovation by supporting the evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and engineering practices.

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Ō pūkenga - About You

You are a people-focused engineering leader who enjoys helping teams succeed while remaining connected to the technical challenges and opportunities within a product development environment. You are collaborative, pragmatic, and capable of balancing competing priorities while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and quality.

To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams within a product development or technology environment.
• Strong ability to plan and allocate technical resources across multiple projects, priorities, and workstreams.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and building capability within engineering teams.
• Demonstrated success solving complex engineering challenges and providing sound technical guidance.
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on experience delivering embedded software solutions for complex products.
• A tertiary qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Ngā painga - What’s in it for you?

We 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.

• We prioritise your wellbeing through health insurance, annual flu vaccinations and extra sick leave in your first year.
• We provide a comfortable work environment through modern office facilities with free onsite parking, gym, and café.
• We recognise your commitment through long service benefits.
• We balance work with fun through our active social club!

About Us

For 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.

Our 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.

Diversity & Inclusion Statement

Tait Communications is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to succeed.

We are encourage applications from all backgrounds to apply.

How to Apply

Sound 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. Only applications submitted through the official application process will be considered.

Applications will be assessed as they are received, and your CV will be held unless you contact us to request this to be removed.

For more information about the company, our products and solutions offered to our customers, please visit our website: www.taitcommunications.com

We encourage applications from all backgrounds to apply.