Project Engineering Manager Nato Jewcs Job In Luton

The Opportunity

Leonardo UK is a leader in the field of airborne sensing and Defensive Aids equipment on military platforms around the world. The company operates as a number of Lines of Business (LoB) based across a number of key sites spanning the South of England and Scotland. Each LoB has a number of business sectors aligned to a coherent Product Portfolio and customer base.

This Project Engineering Manager (PEM) vacancy is within the Integrated Mission Solutions (IMS) sector in the NATO JEWCS Project and is responsible for the success of the engineering activities on their assigned project. The PEM leads on a day-to-day basis on the Work Packages assigned by the Head of Engineering Projects. The PEM is responsible for providing their team with clear expectations of the engineering outcomes, ensuring that they operate consistently within the Policies & Procedures and to foster the improvement goals defined by the Engineering Function.

The PEM works with the Head of Engineering Projects and ensures they are kept informed of the engineering status (progress, spend, risks, metrics) and supports the IPTL in internal and external engagements. The PEM helps develop their Engineering Team by providing mentoring, coaching, setting objectives, and appraising them of their performance through the PDM process and regular engagements. This opportunity could be based from the Luton and can benefit from hybrid-working.

What You Will Do:

1. Lead the Engineering aspects of the Project, ensuring technical quality, schedule, and budget
2. Management of cross-site, multi-disciplined engineering teams, ensuring that roles within the teams are clearly defined
3. Create a positive working relationship with customers and partners, to deliver project capability
4. Establish and maintain good lines of communication internally across the Engineering IPT, with the IPT lead, Project Manager, functional heads
5. Work closely with the Systems Design Authority ensuring they are fully informed on technical progress, technical risk, and any mitigation strategies
6. Ensuring the design solution meets the end user requirement, is reliable, fully documented, and works within its designated environment
7. Ensure the design solution is compatible with the business area route map
8. Control project configuration and change management to ensure design reuse is maximized
9. Support the management of Suppliers and project Make or Buy decisions
10. Candidate concept solutions are captured, including the results of any trade-off studies and end-user engagement
11. Travel within the UK, working alongside other teams within Leonardo, Customers (MoD), End Users, and Industry Partners

What we're looking for:

You really must have:

• Experience in engineering management and delivery of projects
• Engineering or scientific Degree qualification (or equivalent)
• Excellent communicator and able to provide clear direction to team members based on other sites
• Ability to manage complex situations with sound judgment and the ability to balance conflicting challenges
• Commercial and business awareness
• Experience of working across the full life cycle

It would be nice if you had experience of:

• The military domain
• Requirements elicitation and defining software products
• Development and certification of airborne equipment
• New Product Introduction

What you will get:

• 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 through 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.