Senior Product Engineer - Reliance Protect

Reliance High-Tech is the UK’s largest independent integrator of security solutions. It is trusted by leading brands and organisations to protect their people, assets and reputations through innovative technology and specialist expertise through it’s Reliance High-Tech, Reliance Protect and Reliance Technology Care Solutions businesses.

Unique in our industries, Reliance High-Tech combines the capability and footprint of a large organisation, with the agility and customer focus of an independent business.

Role

Are you wanting to own the product development process end to end, delivering innovative products aligned with our customer needs? Are you wanting to drive the strategic product development roadmap as well as being hands-on, working with both internal teams and external technology partners? Do you want to work in an environment that is truly agile where you can really make your mark?

We are offering a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious electronics hardware Senior Product Engineer to take ownership of the technical performance of existing solutions, and ongoing management and delivery of the technology roadmap of the Reliance Protect and Reliance Technology Care Solutions businesses.

Your Responsibilities

This key role encompasses:

• Responsibility for the technical performance and quality of our solutions (hardware, software, apps), working closely with the wider company Dev Team on internal developed software and apps.
• Ownership of the technology roadmap aligning developments in technology and innovation with customer needs, market opportunities and the strategic direction of both the Reliance Protect and Reliance Technology Care Solutions business units.
• Responsibility for assessing new products, solutions and suppliers in line with the technology roadmap.
• Project management of the key internal and external stakeholders to introduce and integrate new features and services that add real value to our solutions.
• Thorough understanding of customer wants and needs and identify differentiators, market opportunities, and USPs against the competitor solutions.
• Management of new product development, firmware versions and firmware control processes.
• Responsibility for the creation of technical specifications from business requirements.
• Responsibility for product certification, compliance to relevant standards, and associated technical documentation.

Why This Opportunity?

• Autonomy & Support

You will be trusted to lead managing both the existing product portfolio and new product development, whilst working in an environment and culture based on support and collaboration across all the business functions.

• Direct Business Impact

Simply put, our continued growth will be driven by the solutions we develop. This role is right at the heart of that.

• Agility

Part of our success and continued growth is due to our agility and our ability to make decisions fast.

Location

You will have the flexibility of a hybrid role blending working from home with some time spent predominately at our sites in Manchester and Pontefract.

Your Profile

You will be educated to Degree level in a related field such as Engineering with at least 3 years’ experience in a technical product engineer role, ideally hardware based with knowledge of electronics and wireless communications.

You will relish the opportunity to be able to both own the development roadmap strategies and be hands-on delivering the products, managing products from concept, through launch and product life cycle.

Ready to take your next career step and drive genuine business impact?

All job candidates will be screened to BS7858 to meet Reliance High-Tech's vetting standards.

Please make sure you supply Covering letter, CV and contact details.  

Thank you for your interest in joining our team. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of submitting your application, unfortunately, it means your application has not been successful at this time.

We will, however, keep your details on file, and if your skills and experience align with future opportunities, we may contact you directly.