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UFORCE is a defence-technology company founded in Ukraine and headquartered in London, building uncrewed vessels, ground robotics, aircraft, autonomy software, and command-and-control systems. The company operates across Europe, the United States, and Asia.
You will lead UFORCE's UK maritime engineering and production capability, taking innovative designs into safe, reliable products delivered at pace. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring confidence moving between design reviews, the workshop, suppliers, and product testing.
Key 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 with clear ownership and closed actions
- 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 active defect and risk management
- Lead engineers, technicians, and suppliers to address technical, material, quality, and delivery challenges at pace
You will have direct ownership of mission-relevant products and the opportunity to shape UFORCE's UK production capability from an early stage.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience taking complex physical products from design or prototype into repeatable production
- Broad engineering understanding across mechanical, electrical/electronic, and integrated systems
- Strong production-engineering knowledge, including drawings, BOMs, work instructions, configuration control, testing, and design for manufacture
- Experience leading engineers, technicians, production teams, or multidisciplinary build activity
- Proven ability to identify critical-path risks and recover builds under pressure without compromising safety or quality
- Practical fault-finding and root-cause analysis experience in workshop, manufacturing, integration, or test environments
- Clear communication, strong ownership, and sound judgement in fast-moving and ambiguous environments
- Ability to work regularly at UK sites and travel to suppliers, build partners, and delivery locations when required
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience in marine, defence, automotive, motorsport, robotics, or another high-reliability hardware sector
- Experience developing electronic or integrated electro-mechanical products
- Experience with maritime platforms, autonomous systems, or uncrewed surface vessels
- Background in a start-up or scale-up combined with experience of a disciplined OEM or high-performance engineering environment
- Supplier-development, quality, test, certification, or regulated-product experience
- Experience leading distributed teams or delivery across UK and international locations
