Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
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Engineering Delivery Manager
Do you have good communication skills and enjoy helping the development of others? Opportunity to step up to an engineering management position Good opportunity to learn in a different engineering domain Be able to stretch your thinking by working on a challenging & complex programme.
You will be managing a multidisciplinary team, including teams within Hardware, Software, Systems, Safety, and Cyber Security. Your role as Engineering Delivery Manager would be to deliver on one of our sonar programmes, including being responsible for cost & schedule and fill fulling customer needs.
Your responsibility will be to provide the principle engineering delivery leadership, direction, decision authority and support to the programme or bid. As well as directing and managing, the Engineering team on project or bid to achieve company objectives in terms of programme schedule, financial and quality targets.
You will need to ensure that the Engineering Processes are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative, regulatory and international standards. Your role will include includes significant Management responsibility for engineering strategy and direction and may have direct line management responsibilities for staff on Project.
Applicants must be eligible to obtain UK SC Level Security Clearance without restrictions and be UK national as this is a UK Eyes Only programme.
You will extensive experience of systems engineering and ideally would have worked within the defence sector.
You will have a strong appreciation of Safety and Safety Assurance within the Engineering discipline and Domain.
We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.
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