Caudwell Marine
Head of Electrical, Hardware, Software, Connectivity and Telematics
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Caudwell Marine is a pioneering UK marine engineering company, backed by entrepreneur and philanthropist John Caudwell. We are redefining marine propulsion through the development of a diesel outboard system built for uncompromising performance, reliability, and control in all conditions, with a global product launch planned for 2026. As a growing and ambitious business, we are focused on delivering cutting-edge technology designed for the toughest marine environments and turning innovation into real-world impact.
At Caudwell Marine, every team member plays an important role in shaping the future of the company. Our approach is built around being confident, committed, and consistent in everything we do. Driven by endurance and powered by people, we are building a team that sets high standards and is helping redefine the future of marine propulsion.
Role & Responsibilities
To lead the department responsible for the electrical and electronic architecture, embedded software, controls, connectivity, diagnostics, and telematics capability across Caudwell Marine products, ensuring safe, reliable, secure, and maintainable system behavior in demanding marine environments.
Responsibilities include:
- Own the electrical, electronic, software, connectivity, and telematics engineering strategy for products and platforms across the full lifecycle.
- Lead electrical architecture, wiring systems, power distribution, sensors, actuators, ECUs, displays, controls, diagnostics, embedded software, and connected product features.
- Define requirements, interfaces, and design standards for electrical hardware, software, networks, communications protocols, diagnostics, cybersecurity, data logging, and over-the-air or service update strategies where applicable.
- Ensure hardware and software designs are developed through appropriate requirements management, architecture definition, design review, coding standards, version control, integration testing, and release governance.
- Work closely with Development, Test & Validation to ensure electrical and software verification is planned, executed, and evidenced at unit, subsystem, system, vessel, and field levels.
- Lead investigation and resolution of electrical, electronic, software, controls, connectivity, and data-related issues across development, production, and in-service phases.
- Support compliance with relevant marine, electrical, EMC, safety, environmental, radio, software, and data requirements applicable to the product portfolio.
- Manage supplier and partner technical delivery for ECUs, displays, harnesses, sensors, telematics platforms, cloud/data services, and specialist software or electronics work packages.
- Ensure product connectivity and telematics capability create value for customers, service teams, reliability improvement, and future product development.
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Required Skills
Leadership responsibilities
- Build and lead a multidisciplinary electrical, software, and connected-systems department with clear technical ownership and delivery accountability.
- Establish disciplined requirements, architecture, integration, configuration, version-control, release, and change-management practices.
- Promote robust systems engineering, safe software practices, cybersecurity awareness, and maintainable technical documentation.
- Develop team capability across embedded systems, controls, diagnostics, marine electrical integration, connectivity, and data analytics.
- Facilitate effective trade-off decisions between functionality, safety, reliability, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and customer experience.
Key interfaces
- Engineering Director and programme leadership team.
- Development, Test & Validation department.
- Mechanical, Design, Analysis & Integration department.
- Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Service, Customer Support, Product Management, and Commercial teams.
- Electronic hardware suppliers, software partners, telematics/cloud providers, certification bodies, and customer technical representatives.
Core competencies
- Electrical and electronic systems architecture.
- Embedded software, controls, and diagnostics leadership.
- Connectivity, telematics, data, and secure connected-product thinking.
- Requirements management, integration, configuration, and release governance.
- Supplier technical management and cross-functional systems integration.
Personal Attributes
- Consistent, confident, and committed approach to work.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
- Highly committed to safety, quality, and operational excellence.
- Strategic thinker with strong attention to detail and execution focus.
- Calm and effective under pressure, particularly in scaling or high-demand environments.
- Proactive, solution-oriented, and continuously improvement driven.
- Strong communicator and collaborator across cross-functional teams.
- Hands-on, practical leadership style with strong site engagement.
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Experience and Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent experience in electrical, electronic, software, control systems, mechatronics, automotive, marine, or related engineering discipline.
- Significant experience leading electrical/electronic, embedded software, controls, or connected product engineering teams for complex products.
- Strong knowledge of requirements-led electrical/software development, system architecture, integration testing, diagnostics, configuration management, and release control.
- Experience with embedded systems, CAN or similar vehicle/marine networks, wiring systems, sensors, actuators, ECUs, displays, data logging, telematics, or IoT platforms.
- Familiarity with EMC, electrical safety, functional safety principles, cybersecurity, software quality, and marine regulatory environments is desirable.
Success measures
- Electrical, software, and connected-system designs are safe, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with product requirements.
- Software, hardware, and system releases are controlled, traceable, and delivered in line with programme needs.
- Integration issues are found early and resolved with clear ownership and evidence.
- Connected product and telematics capability support service, reliability, customer insight, and future product strategy.
- The department builds scalable methods and capability for increasingly software-defined and connected marine products.
Disclaimer
Caudwell Marine operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies, which is currently not under review. Agencies not on our PSL are kindly requested to refrain from submitting speculative CVs or contacting our hiring managers or employees directly regarding recruitment matters. Please note that any CVs submitted by non-PSL agencies, whether speculative or otherwise, will be treated as unsolicited.
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