Head of Engineering

We are recruiting an experienced Engineer, to lead alongside our executive team to ensure the business strategy is underpinned with the appropriate engineering approach. Using a blend of leadership, technical expertise and innovation, this role will be responsible for developing and scaling the company’s engineering function. Our team requires a dynamic leader who can blend technical expertise with strategic decision-making and will be responsible for growing and managing a high-performing team of engineers, collaborating across departments, whilst owning the design and delivery of cutting-edge production assets.  

Having commissioned our pilot production line, in a demonstrative, continuous process, we are at a pivotal time in our growth as we look to establish our first commercial scale production centres across Europe. Working closely with the CTO and the existing Engineering function your focus will be to take the learnings from our pilot facility and scale them by undertaking the following; 

• Cost, design and plan our next scale of industrial facility, delivered within the next 1-2 years.   

• Flexibly thinking, dynamically assessing and solving problems for engineering scale up, working with our team to derisk engineering elements at small scale and allowing our innovations to successfully scale.  

• Working alongside our licensees helping them to develop the business case for establishing their manufacturing centres on a global scale.   

Leadership & Strategy: 

• Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team, fostering a collaborative and innovative, culture. 

• Define and execute the engineering strategy in alignment with company growth objectives  

• Support the executive function of the business to deliver the funding for scale up by bringing together the appropriate level of cost certainty and risk management to deliver the next industrial scale of Adaptavate facility. 

• Experience of engineering scale up of novel processes, FEED studies, through to detailed design and project delivery would be highly advantageous. 

• Work with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to define and prioritise engineering goals. 

• Communicating timelines and budgets, ensuring excellent project delivery. 

Process Development and Delivery: 

• Oversee the design, development and de-risking of new production assets, both for Adaptavate and global licensees, ensuring they meet quality, sustainability, and safety standards. 

• Manage the scale up of the engineering solutions, in a dynamic environment, identifying, prioritising, communicating and subsequently eliminating scale up risks 

Technical Management:

• A track record of hands-on scaling innovation, and a proven ability to critically evaluate and solve problems, bringing fresh thinking. 

• Large (£10m+) capital expenditure project design and delivery experience. 

• Technical experience of working with large-scale continuous, integrated, or hybrid process 

• Experience of construction and composite materials processes is desired  

• Great people skills, working with our team to understand the process from the ground up with the ability to escalate and communicate to senior management level on progress and key metrics.  

• A track record of hands-on scaling innovation, and a proven ability to critically evaluate and solve problems, bringing fresh thinking. 

• Large (£10m+) capital expenditure project design and delivery experience. 

• Technical experience of working with large-scale continuous, integrated, or hybrid process 

• Experience of construction and composite materials processes is desired  

• Great people skills, working with our team to understand the process from the ground up with the ability to escalate and communicate to senior management level on progress and key metrics.  

In this role as our next Adaptavator, you will build on your established key skills. This will be developed through a blend of personal mentorship, applied training and attendance to industry specific events.  Exposure to, and the leadership of, genuinely groundbreaking technology will put you at the forefront of the field.   

The impact of our business is realised by the cohesion and growth of our team members. We aim to create a collaborative, supportive, fun and respectful working environment that enables you to thrive. Collectively, we can lead the carbon change in construction for a better future!    

At Adaptavate, work, family, wellbeing and success are well balanced!  We have a cycle to work scheme in place and are located just off the Bristol to Bath cycle path in Bristol.   

Our team has big ideas and a strong belief in our technology and products. Fantastic opportunities to grow are available for those who work hard for them.   

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger and our days more rewarding. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our principles by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.   

If this sounds like your next job, then please send your CV with a covering letter or email as to why you want the position to jobs@adaptavate.com.    

At Adaptavate, we are fighting climate change with carbon change, and we firmly believe that our work is pivotal to achieve net zero by 2050. The endeavour is ambitious, but we are up for the challenge! Are you? 

We look forward to hearing from you.