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The Engineering Manager will be responsible for successfully delivering engineering activities to time, cost and quality across all engineering aspects; providing engineering leadership to the multi-disciplinary project team; ensuring solutions meet their requirements / are fit for purpose; and providing technical governance to other programs as required.
An experienced Engineering Manager is sought, with an extensive background in delivery of R&D projects. Experience of taking a project from a low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) through to production is required.
The Engineer Manager will provide Engineering leadership for a multi-disciplinary team to:
* Define and describe the Technical Solution during bids or project scope changes; support the Programme Manager in cost estimation, approving the estimated cost and schedule.
* Provide the primary technical interface to Customers and Partners.
* Managing project mobilisation of engineering activities, including the definition of delivery strategies, definition of Work and Organisation Breakdown Structures, resource requirements and agreement of work-packages.
* Provide oversight of estimation of engineering work packages.
* Planning and managing engineering activities to ensure delivery to time, cost and quality requirements.
* Identification of all resources (people, tools and process) required to deliver the projects.
* Identifying, assessing and mitigating engineering and technical risk.
* Ensuring engineering projects are managed in accordance with company process.
* Working with the Programme Manager to successfully deliver solutions that meet the Customer’s needs / requirements to cost / schedule.
* Coaching and mentoring of other engineers.
* Lead or Chair technical and design reviews.
* Support the continuous improvement of the Engineering function.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience as an Engineering Manager
Required Skills:
* Bachelor's Degree in Maths, Physics, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
* Candidate must be capable of acquiring security clearance.
* Experience in managing Engineering projects experience within a low TRL environment.
Desired Skills:
* Chartered Engineer or equivalent
* Master's Degree an asset
* Maritime Domain experience an advantage but not necessary
* Underwater Warfare, Torpedo Defence or Acoustics knowledge an advantage
* System Engineering lifecycle selection and experience in all phases of it
* Delivery to Defence customers, including design and qualification to military standards
* Engineering management of a multi-disciplinary teams to successfully deliver complex solutions using new technology
* Led multiple Design Reviews
* Supervised the Requirements Phase of multiple programmes
* Supervised the System, Preliminary and Critical Design Phases for multiple programmes
* Technical management of subcontractors
* Supervised the transition from design into production for multiple programmes
* Supervised Integration, Verification and Validation activities
* Knowledge of System Engineering lifecycles
* Supervise an interdisciplinary team and manage the perspectives of disciplines
* A team-oriented individual that works collaboratively to achieve team goals
* Strong communication skills; positive attitude
* Must be self-motivated, adaptable, and attentive to details
* Willing to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a deadline-oriented environment
* Occasional travel within UK and Overseas
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Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.