Engineering Delivery Manager Core Technologies

The Engineering Delivery Manager role is an Engineering Leadership Team role responsible for enabling and ensuring successful delivery of a portfolio of engineering bids and development projects against agreed scope schedule quality and budget targets. For this role the portfolio of projects will typically be internal work-packages delivering hardware/processor modules that are commonly used across the wider business. As such the role holder will also act as a Product Line Architect. This role acts as the bridge between engineering teams project management and stakeholders ensuring alignment on priorities resource allocation and quality standards. The role holder will also be a Line Manager within the Engineering functional organisation.

In this role you will:

• Own end-to-end delivery of the allocated portfolio of engineering work-packages leading the Core Engineering team to ensure milestones are met and risks are managed proactively.
• Ensure monthly Engineering Status Reviews are held supported by objective and subjective data to understand execution status and to identify project delivery risks and issues.
• Escalate critical issues promptly and lead resolution efforts including risk mitigation strategies.
• Communicate progress clearly to senior leadership and customers.
• As the Product Line Architect ensure maximum re-use and commonality where possible and maintain a technical road-map for each of the core modules.
• Ensure compliance with engineering process standards safety and certification requirements.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans schedules and resource forecasts. Balance workload across teams and manage capacity constraints.
• Own and deliver assigned actions in support of defined Engineering Capability & Capacity development plans.
• Act as a line manager within the Engineering Functional organisation.

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Qualifications :

• Demonstrable & significant experience in successful leadership and delivery of complex avionics processing and hardware modules for military avionics (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrable strong understanding of the challenges associated with leading development of complex hardware processing solutions  (e.g. Systems Hardware Software Firmware Mechanical etc).
• A good understanding of the development engineering considerations relevant to Avionics/Airborne systems.
• Demonstrable experience leading technical/engineering engagements with customers and suppliers.
• Demonstrable experience in leading and developing team members ideally with experience of mentoring and coaching for performance.
• Experience in identifying defining and delivering continuous improvements is desirable.
• Professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.  We actively support employees in attaining CEng status.  

Additional Information :

This role has a salary of between 65000 and 90000 dependant upon experience plus our flexible benefits package.

We are open to this role being spent with time working from home and in the office (hybrid - typically 3 days working in office) on a weekly basis or fully in our offices.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose offering impressive benefits: 

• A compressed nine-day fortnight and compressed hours - which means every other Friday off. 
• A personalized career development plan alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company. 
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognized and rewarded with flexible benefits 

We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace - inclusive of beliefs cultural background job experiences thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you we welcome you to join our inclusive team!

Our success is fuelled by our colleagues and the wide variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills they bring to the Company.

We are a Disability Confident Employer as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Please email if you would like your application to be considered under the DC Scheme.

All successful/appointed applicants must be able to obtain a level of UK Security clearance that is appropriate for the role and undertake suitable Right to work checks

Every application matters to us. We want you to know that each application we receive is reviewed by a real personnot just an algorithm. Our screening questions are also carefully considered to help us understand your experience and fit for the role.

We appreciate the time you take to apply.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time