Job summary

The Engineering Manager (Through Life Support ), will lead a multi-disciplinary Customer Facing team to successfully execute engineering activities within our Through Life Support business pillar.

Key skills required for this role

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engineering manager , through life support

Job description

The Engineering Manager (Through life support ) 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.

• Define and describe the Technical Solution during bids or project scope changes; support the Project/Programme Managers and Project Engineering Leads (PELs) in cost estimation, approving the estimated cost and schedule
• 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
• 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
• Working with relevant internal stakeholders to resolve engineering resource conflicts
• Coaching and mentoring of other engineers including PELs
• Lead or Chair technical and design reviews
• Support the continuous improvement of the Engineering function and specifically the engineering management function and supporting PEL roles
• Other tasks as assigned
  

Skills, Qualifications and Experience As An Engineering Manager

Required Skills/experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Math, Physics, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Maritime domain experience
• Candidate must be capable of acquiring security clearance
• Experience of Management of Engineering projects
• Delivery to Defence customers, including design and qualification to military standards
• Engineering management of a multi-disciplinary teams to successfully deliver complex solutions
• Mange and drive the requirement and acceptance activities to achieve contract sign-off
• Support the project design reviews (System, Preliminary and Critical Design Phases) for multiple programs
• Technical management of subcontractors
• 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 prioritize and execute tasks in a deadline-oriented environment

Nationality Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain the relevant security clearance required for the role, due to the nature of the programmes we deliver for our customers.