Job title: Capability Retrofit & Upgrade Planning Leader
Location: Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £54,793 + depending on experience

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Understanding of configuration control
• Understanding of maintenance planning techniques
• Leadership experience
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Bid management experience
• Communication and influencing across internal and external stakeholders (incl engagements with customer & suppliers)

• Lead a pan-Typhoon upgrade team
• Coordinating the alignment of Customer (Core and Export) retrofit requirements and ensuring the demands are aligned with industry capability maturity and the associated upgrade plans contracts and enablers
• Providing and internal interface and central information hub for all internal stakeholders including the Supply chain, for retrofit strategies and Production Investment requirements
• Coordinating the bid management of Embodiment Prep tasks across Core and Export Programmes (including rough order of magnitude estimates across the life cycle).
• Effective mobilisation of embodiment non-recurring Engineering (NRE) activities into the business
• Coordination of retrofit reporting via the Typhoon Capability Insertion Review
• Engagement with worldwide operating customers, EF and NETMA on retrofit requirements and planning
• Negotiations with customers throughout the lifecycle to harmonise evolving requirements aligned to their operational needs