Senior Partnership Delivery Consultant
Copello Global – Defence Engineering / Defence Technology
The role is responsible for providing engineering leadership and managing concurrent engineering activities to ensure that all assigned projects and tasks are delivered to scope, cost, and schedule. This includes executing the engineering delivery of projects of varying size and complexity in accordance with established business, management, and technical processes. The position leads all project engineering activities and teams in alignment with ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 standards, ensuring the consistent application and continuous improvement of a systems‑based approach. Responsibilities also include effective delegation, monitoring, and management of progress to achieve engineering objectives within agreed budgets, schedules, and governance requirements. In addition, the role assures and governs the implementation of engineering activities in compliance with approved plans and processes.
Key Responsibilities
* Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale.
* Lead, define, delegate and monitor the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed across the multi‑discipline project team.
* Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team, supporting the Program Management team in planning and scheduling, and proposing optimisations.
* Ensure that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; identify and implement solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip, striving to beat schedule and improve margin.
* Raise resource concerns or other project constraints that risk value/success, proposing and managing solutions.
* Articulate and quantify technical risks on the project; actively manage their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule.
* Provide input for business and customer reporting; propose improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics) and represent the company on the project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
* Oversee change, scope the potential impact, risks, dependencies, benefits and costs; work with stakeholders to achieve change agreements.
* Effectively resolve any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities) and optimise business needs across all functions.
* Work with resource stakeholders to support development of the team via tasking opportunities and knowledge sharing, resulting in growth, greater efficiency and resilience.
Suitable Experience
* Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle.
* Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team.
* Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating into/with other systems.
* Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities.
* Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e. modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition.
* Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influences.
* Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative.
* Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all life‑cycle phases across one or more assigned projects.
* Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry.
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Engineering and Management
Industries
Defense and Space Manufacturing; Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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