Job summary

Want to join a company with over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and delivering highly bespoke solutions?

Key skills required for this role

Project Engineering Lead, PEL, Systems, Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Leadership, Multi-discipline teams, collaboration, work package management, cost and schedule management.

Important

Candidates must be eligible to obtain a SC (Security) clearance

Job description

Our client, a leader in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a Project Engineering Lead (PEL) to join their growing team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborating closely with the Project Manager and System Design Authority to ensure successful project delivery
• Leading a multi-disciplinary team to deliver engineering activities within scope, time, cost, and quality constraints
• Managing engineering development projects from requirements elicitation to production
• Producing engineering plans that include dependencies, assumptions, risks, and opportunities
• Understanding and managing configuration and change management
• Providing engineering estimation and work package management
• Maintaining effective communication with stakeholders
• Ensuring adherence to design gates from bid to full production readiness review

Job Requirements:

• Extensive experience in Change & Transformation, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering
• Solid background in Systems Engineering with a strong understanding of multidisciplinary integration
• Experience in managing teams on complex engineering projects
• Familiarity with engineering estimation and producing detailed engineering plans
• Experience on defence projects
• Understanding of configuration and change management principles
• Excellent communication skills for building strong relationships with team members and stakeholders
• Eligibility for Security Check (SC) clearance

Benefits:

• Optional 9 day fortnight
• Time Off In Lieu (TOIL)
• Flexible working hours
• 1pm finish on Fridays
• Annual bonus
• Hybrid working for certain roles
• Casual dress code
• 25 days holiday plus Christmas shutdown
• Option to buy or sell holiday
• Options for private healthcare, dental, and critical illness cover via salary sacrifice
• Reward hub offering discounts at over 200 online stores
• 4x annual salary life cover
• Pension scheme starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee contributions

If you have a background in systems, electronics, electrical, software or mechanical engineering and are eager to lead complex defence projects, we encourage you to apply now to join our client's dynamic team! Please contact me for further details!