Project Engineering Manager

at  Leonardo UK Ltd

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Establish a multi-discipline team of permanent staff and outsourced resource, as required, to translate requirements into a test environment strategy, implementation plans and realise solutions.
• Day-to-day management of the new team under your responsibility, ensuring that roles and tasks are clearly defined, understood and delivered.
• Promote the principles of test earlier into the development lifecycle to left-shift opportunities to support capability and long-term aim for full digital certification.
• Management of the Test Solutions Engineering technical quality, schedule and budget.
• Understand and interpret user needs / requirements in order to influence and define the system requirements, architecture, and design, liaising with Leonardo UK GCAP Integration Evaluation & Acceptance (ITEA) and TLS specialist teams.
• Establish and maintain good lines of communication across the Engineering IPT and upwards to the Head of Engineering Projects and across to the PEM for critical enablers.
• Liaise with the IPT lead to deliver against the GCAP master schedule.
• Management of cost adherence to the Programme budgets. Work Package cost management for project control and reporting.
• Liaise closely with the ITEA System Design Authority to ensure technical integrity of programmes.
• Technical point of contact and liaison point for customer and/or partner organisations.
• Technical interface and management of Programme contractors & sub-contractors.
• Setting of goals, appraisal of core staff and agreeing project specific training needs.
• Configure and maintain performance measures and matrices for the test solutions area.
• Identify performance improvements / key enablers and propose candidate solutions and implementation methods.
• Travel within the UK, and potentially worldwide, to meet with our customers and industry partners.

In this role with Leonardo, you will get:

• To be part of the future: You’ll be a key part of the once-in-a-lifetime GCAP international construct, to deliver a world-leading solution.
• Advanced Technology: You will have the ability to contribute to the development of market-leading product development, providing advanced capability and protection to UK and International platforms.
• Agile Systems Engineering: Apply and develop your knowledge of systems engineering in a fast-paced and dynamic agile development team.
• Defence Electronics Expertise: Leonardo has subject-matter experts with extensive and detailed knowledge of the RF, EOIR and Communications domains, technology, performance, and operational capabilities.
• Continuous Learning: Whether sensor technologies, engineering lifecycle processes, leadership, or personal development, you’ll be supported in your ongoing professional development though training and mentoring.
• Teamwork: You will work alongside like-minded professional engineers in a highly collaborative environment.
• Connections: You will be joining an expansive team of around 7,000 people at six major sites across the UK, and will work with like-minded professionals across the globe.
• Heritage: We are proud of our rich heritage in Defence electronics. Today we’re providing the latest advances in sensor technology and enabling our customers to keep pace with an ever-evolving threat environment