Job Title: Technical Programme Director
About the Role:
We are seeking an expert to lead the successful delivery of complex technical programmes. This is a hands-off leadership role best suited to someone who has experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering projects.
Key Responsibilities:
* Drive and coordinate the end-to-end delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects from planning to execution to handover.
* Oversee work across hardware, electronics, firmware, and mechanical integration teams ensuring seamless cross-domain collaboration.
Technical Delivery Oversight:
Technical knowledge of hardware, electronics, firmware, and mechanical integration is essential for this role. You will be responsible for defining delivery frameworks using appropriate methods based on project context.
* Manage project risks, configuration, dependencies, and escalation processes in line with defence and regulatory standards.
Stakeholder & Team Leadership:
You will engage with internal and external stakeholders to align expectations, provide delivery assurance, and maintain transparency. Act as a technical sounding board and delivery authority for engineers, project managers, and leadership teams.
* Engage with internal and external stakeholders to align expectations, provide delivery assurance, and maintain transparency.
Project Governance & Control:
Define delivery frameworks using appropriate methods based on project context. Manage project risks, configuration, dependencies, and escalation processes in line with defence and regulatory standards.
* Leverage your engineering background to interrogate schedules, review technical plans, and challenge assumptions constructively.
Hands-On Credibility:
Contribute to the culture of engineering excellence and pragmatic delivery without micromanaging.
* Track record of delivering complex engineering projects within regulated, safety-critical, or defence sectors.
Delivery Leadership in Secure Environments:
Fluent in delivery assurance, schedule management, risk control, and stakeholder communication.
* Active SC Clearance and sole British nationality (non-negotiable due to project sensitivity).
Security Clearance:
Strong Communication & Organisational Skills:
* Ability to engage both engineers and executives, translate between technical and delivery contexts, and keep delivery momentum.
Toolset & Process Knowledge:
Comfortable with engineering project tools (e.g., JIRA, MS Project, Confluence, PLM systems). Working knowledge of relevant engineering standards (e.g., ISO 9001, DO-254, MIL-STD, etc.).
* Familiarity with defence, aerospace, or high-integrity systems (e.g., naval platforms, weapons systems, autonomous vehicles).
Desirable Attributes:
Experience overseeing multi-vendor, multi-site or matrixed delivery environments.
* Chartered Engineer (CEng or equivalent) or demonstrable peer-level technical authority.