Date Posted: 2025-06-19
Country: United Kingdom
Location: GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA
Position Role Type: Unspecified
Installation & Acceptance Manager
Primarily home-based but must be prepared to travel to support internal, customer and supplier meetings.
About us:
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development.
Our business:
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.
The role:
The Installation & Acceptance Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing the process for integrating systems, operations and services within Project Delta. This project requires the managed integration and delivery of complex devices, consisting of hardware, software and courseware components, interacting with multiple stakeholders from suppliers to the customer and end-users within UK MOD.
Essential:
* Background experience of working in a hardware development and/or ITEA, with more recent experience in a managerial or Project Management type role.
* A knowledge and understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle & ITIL functions, principles and processes.
* Proven track record in the implementation, delivery, handover and maintenance of complex IT systems in secure environments.
* Recent practical experience of successfully integrating complex COTS products.
* Experience implementing integration projects.
* Problem analysis and resolution in a secure environment.
* Experience working across all security classifications and delivery of solutions delivered through the Secure by design principles.
* Ability to quickly form effective working relationships with all stakeholders required.
* Configuration management processes and systems.
Desirable:
* Preferably have experience working either on a technical level or management level on large complex secure systems
* An understanding of the Defence system approach to training (DSAT) and/or the integration of training systems to deliver comprehensive training solutions.
* Managing projects, tasks and deliverables with protective markings or other special handling restrictions.
* Knowledge of or experience with Site Co-ordinating Installation Design Authority (SCIDA)
* Experience with Atlassian suite, working with Jira and Confluence.
* Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
* Awareness of NAFv4 and/or TOGAF.
* Experience of training devices.
Main duties:
* Defining the Integration Strategy, including priorities, timelines, and milestones aligned with the overall project's Integrated Management Schedule (IMS).
* Creating and executing comprehensive Integration Plans, ensuring clearly defined and agreed deliverables, timely delivery, adherence to budget, and management of risk and opportunities.
* Oversee the integration of the devices from early within the development life cycle through delivery to finally Hand Over, ensuring environmental and security requirements are considered and appropriately addressed with all internal and external stakeholders.
* Act as the project's subject matter expert and point of contact on the integration, delivery and hand over of the devices to support project requirements.
* Ensure successful Hand Over through in depth understanding of the acceptance criteria and delivery of all required artefacts including but not limited to Transition to Service Plans, Operation Manuals, Training Guides etc.
* Ensure systems are in place to demand and manage the integration constraints ahead of fruition, including checks of accuracy and consistency
* Form exceptional working relationships with all stakeholders including suppliers, invested Raytheon UK Teams and the UK MOD and its contractors.
* Work closely with the Training Equipment Manager to ensure that all external requirements of training device teams, both current and future, are met.
* Work closely with the Information Assurance and Safety & Environmental Engineering Leads to ensure that all requirements of the devices, both current and future, are met.
* Work closely with the Head of Courseware and Media Development to ensure that all external requirements of the courseware development team, both current and future, are met.
* Work closely with the Configuration Management team to ensure that existing Raytheon UK and Project Delta processes are adhered to.
* Work closely with the project Security representatives (physical and electronic) to ensure compliance with existing regulations on handling and storage of protected materials.
* Provide regular reporting against developed metrics to ensure confidence in the integration activities and successful hand over to the customer and end-users
Benefits and Work Culture
Benefits
* Competitive salaries.
* 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
* Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
* Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
* 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension.
* Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
* Enhanced sick pay.
* Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
Work Culture
* 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
* Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
* Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
* A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role.
* Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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