Engineering Reliability Team Leader - Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - 73 Ltd

    Default job background
    Description
    Grow, develop and lead an engineering team focused on development and delivery of automation systems
    Accountable for the hardware engineering delivery from discovery through into product readiness handing over to platform implementation for series production
    Partner with Product Management on prioritisation, forward planning, forecasting, tracking and progress reporting
    Look ahead to identify risks as soon as possible (technical and organisational) and put in place mitigation plans, escalating when necessary

    Manage upwards effectively, making sure your Engineering Manager and Head of Engineering are informed of progress, celebrating team successes and making key risks visible.

    Work with engineering management to identify optimal development solutions considering internal and external resources
    Set clear goals, expectation and limits for team members, giving timely feedback to aid performance improvement and support / guidance when needed to ensure goals are achieved
    Help the team create the right engineering solutions through technical understanding, facilitation and where necessary decision making
    Ensure the team's products and services pursue technical excellence and quality
    Suggest and implement improvements to identify and reduce waste in our ways of working, understanding cost and opportunity implications
    Contract
    We're Ocado Group - a global, technology business redefining ecommerce, fulfilment and logistics in online grocery and beyond.

    Our heritage as the UK's largest pure-play online grocer through Ocado Retail LTD ( a 50:50 joint venture with M&S), and expertise in high-performing logistics and fulfilment through Ocado Logistics, has equipped us with technology innovation, expertise and operational know-how to build and innovate the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP).

    OSP is the world's leading ecommerce, fulfilment and logistics platform designed for the unique demands of online grocery.

    Now, with Ocado Intelligent Automation (OIA), our unparalleled experience and proven automated retrieval and storage technology is helping businesses outside of online grocery future-proof their fulfilment operations.

    #