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Date Posted: 2025-12-03
Country: United Kingdom
Location: GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA
An exciting opportunity has become available at Raytheon UK for a Systems Engineering Manager to join our Air Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) division. This role involves supporting a variety of programmes and R&D initiatives while contributing to the growth of our engineering capability—a key driver of the business’s strategic expansion.
Based at our Harlow site on a hybrid working model (3 days on-site), you will report directly to the ATMS Senior Engineering Manager.
As the Systems Engineering Manager, you will lead the systems engineering team, overseeing resource allocation and providing technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of military and civil projects worldwide. We are pleased to offer CPD and wider opportunities as part of the growing engineering team in Raytheon UK.
Responsibilities
* Accountable manager for the ATMS System Engineering team (12 Systems Engineers) supporting all programmes
* Leading preparation of technical proposals in responses to bids
* Leading requirements analysis and management tasks— from capturing customer requirements to developing requirement sets for sub-systems & suppliers
* Leading systems design and development tasks—working both internally and closely with the existing supply chain and strategic partnerships to develop technical solutions
* Leading systems integration, verification and validation tasks— from developing sub-system level test specifications, through to generating compliance matrices to allow sign-off of top-level systems for delivery
* Defining the systems capabilities aspects of the APNT technology and product roadmaps
Required Experience
* Degree in an engineering (or related) subject
* Experience in accountability for and management of a systems engineering team across the product development lifecycle
* Experience in workload management and dynamic tasking across several projects for the systems function
* Experience in developing systems engineering capabilities across programmes and staffing experience levels
* Proven stakeholder management skills
* Outstanding analytical and problem‑solving skills
* Willingness to travel throughout UK, Europe and the US
* Eligible for BPSS and SC clearance levels
Desirable
* Surveillance radar domain knowledge and/or experience
* Experience in systems modelling approaches and simulation
* Knowledge of the certification process as part of the overall system lifecycle
Benefits And Work Culture
* Early finish Fridays, with a 37‑hr working week
* Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) – please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team
* Competitive salaries
* 25 days holiday, increasing with service, + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days
* Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year
* 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 among others
* Enhanced sick pay
* Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
* Private Medical Insurance
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. RTX employs over 180,000 people globally and provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. The company contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy 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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