Job Description
Systems Engineering Manager role within the defence sector working for one of the UK’s leading businesses within cryptography and data security!
We are looking for someone with a systems engineering background who has moved into an engineering management role of a multi-disciplined team of engineers, delivering complex, technical engineering projects.
This role comes with a great benefits package including:
* 10% annual bonus
* £5,000 clearance allowance
* 9-day fortnight and flexible working
* Couples’ private medical insurance
* 6-months full pay mat-leave, and 1-month full pay pat-leave
* Wealth of training and career development opportunities into a Head of Discipline or Chief Engineer role
We are looking for candidates with experience of:
* Provision of engineering leadership and management of concurrent engineering to ensure that assigned projects and tasking are delivered to scope, cost and schedule.
* Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes in accordance with business, management and technical processes.
* Lead all project engineering activities and the team, aligned to ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 processes, defining and continuous implementation of a systems approach.
* Effectively delegate responsibilities, monitoring and managing progress to achieve the scope of the engineering to satisfaction of the budget, schedule and governance stakeholders.
* Assure and govern the implementation and application of engineering in accordance with the agreed plans and processes.
Key Experience Required:
* Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, V and numerous development models (Iterative, Incremental etc)
* Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team of a minimum of 10 multi-discipline engineers.
* Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems.
* Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities
* Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition.
* Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence.
* Experience engineering lifecycle tools and their use to manage the work, configuration management, traceability and support the generation of metrics.
* Excellent, multi method and tool, Customer/Stakeholder engagement skills and communication techniques
* Experienced in creating work breakdown structure, with a value basis, where the realisation of the required artefacts achieves internal process and external contract commitments.
* Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative.
* Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all Life Cycle phases across one or more assigned projects.
* Hands-on expertise in a number of the following areas: Command & Control Defence systems, sensors, communications, encryption, land/maritime/airborne capability
* Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry.
All candidates need to be eligible and happy to undergo DV Clearance.