Ignite Incubation - Technical Lead at De Beer Intellectual Property Attorneys

Job Description:

The purpose of this role is to provide technical leadership in developing, maintaining and curating the technical discipline/engineering standards that are applied by all engineering staff engaged in delivering technical products or services in the Ignite™ Incubation function. The role works in conjunction with the Technology Incubation and Research Leads to coordinate the processes, systems and structures required to ensure scientific and engineering best practice is followed, technical quality requirements are met, systems are standardised and regulatory compliance achieved.

The Technical Lead will also liaise extensively with the Ignite™ Commercial Technology Group to provide guidance and feedback on the implementation and effectiveness of appropriate standards and processes to ensure that equipment designed by the Ignite™ Incubation Group may be successfully and reliably manufactured by the Ignite™ Commercial Technology Group.

Key responsibilities:

• Accountable for building and managing an internal network of technical subject matter experts into a Community of Practice (CoP) for each technical discipline, allowing emerging concepts, techniques, best practice, training standards and experience to be collected, shared and implemented appropriately.
• Responsible for signing the Declaration of Conformity which confirms that a product designed and manufactured by De Beers Ignite™ in the UK achieves appropriate regulatory compliance for any countries into which it is to be put into service and that relevant compliance marks (UKCA, CE etc.) have been legally applied.
• Create and communicate to the Ignite Incubation team clear guidance on Statute, Regulation and technical standards.
• Provide input to project initiation, planning and specification discussions.
• Responsible for quality sign-off at stage gate and technology readiness level reviews for development projects.
• Develop and promote departmental ‘best practice’ standards associated with technical disciplines.
• Coordinate the review and quality assurance of all technical work produced by the development teams.
• Provide advice on the selection and promotion of the software platforms used within De Beers Ignite™ to ensure effective and efficient working across all De Beers Ignite™ sites and that such platforms are used correctly to deliver consistent high quality results.   

Qualifications:

Formal Qualifications:

• BEng. or MSc. Qualification in any of the technical disciplines relevant to Ignite Incubation.

Role-specific Knowledge:

• Demonstrable experience in a similar role implementing standards for engineers and technical professionals.
• Minimum of 10 years experience, including complete product life cycle experience from initial specification through unit design, test, integration, system test, commission, regulatory approval and production.
• Experience in conducting peer reviews, mentoring of staff ,departmental consultancy.