Project Engineering Manager

at  Leonardo UK Ltd

JOB DESCRIPTION

Due to growth of the business area, an increasing workload and development within the team, we have a requirement to fill the vacancy of Project Engineering Manager within our Naval Line of Business (LoB), part of the Integrated Sensing and Protection (ISP) division with Leonardo Electronics UK.
Within this LoB, the projects are diverse and exciting. There are a large number of projects in various stages of their lifecycle from new core product development, business capture, customer-funded projects and in service support contracts.
The Naval business is planning for growth over the next 5 years as part of the Integrated Business Plan. As such, there is requirement to further develop a high performance culture within Naval to realise the growth potential that exists. The Naval business has many technologies deployed across various platforms, and as such are seen as a systems design and integration for our customers, aiding them in finding the best solution for their requirements.
Project Engineering Managers are responsible for the total engineering activity undertaken on projects and so manage a cross-disciplined engineering team as well as Project Engineering Leads supervising projects or sub-sections of larger projects of their own. The Project Engineering Manager is tasked with ensuring that the engineering team delivers a solution that is compliant with the customer requirements, contractual and legislative requirements. The Project Engineering Manager must effectively plan and manage the engineering effort within any projects they are supervising directly from a performance, schedule and cost perspective. They also must support their subordinate Project Engineering Leads to do the same.
Reporting to the Head of Engineering Project, the Project Engineering Manager will contribute to the monthly engineering governance cycle through preparation of engineering status reports. Project Engineering Managers build strong relationships with Engineering Functional Leads to ensure the resourcing plans within the IPT they supervise are realistic and any issues arising are resolved swiftly. Project Engineering Managers are a vital part of business winning activity, coordinating the collection of engineering costs, preparation of an engineering plan and holding an engineering bid review.
The role requires a candidate who is self-motivated and enthusiastic, with strong leadership and behavioural skills. The ability to foster and develop effective working relationships is key to ensure engineers perform to the levels required of the project. A strong commercial and business awareness is also essential to ensure that the engineering effort can be managed in the correct context for each given project.

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

The following skills and experience are required:

• Educated to a degree level in an engineering-related subject (essential)
• Significant previous experience of managing and/or leading multi-disciplined engineering teams on large scale development projects (essential)
• Strong understanding and proven track record of engineering lifecycles and processes on technically complex development projects (essential)
• Previous experience of being a leader of leaders (desirable)
• A strong understanding and experience of systems integration and testing (desirable)
• Knowledge and experience of the Naval domain and/or Communications technology (desirable)
• Experience of working within the defence industry (desirable)

Please refer the Job description for details