Engineering Delivery Manager

Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are currently seeking an Engineering Delivery Manager to join our Aerospace delivery team, where you will spearhead operational activities for a key defence and aerospace customer. This role involves supporting multi-disciplinary customer engineering projects, ensuring customer satisfaction, and acting as the primary interface between internal teams, customers, and stakeholders.

The job holder will be engaged in understanding and supporting our customer with a wide variety of Engineering Delivery activities covering the entire engineering lifecycle, you will be a key member of a team providing essential back office direction. Your knowledge across a wide variety of Engineering activities will be deployed to ensure Expleo are able to provide high-quality and pivotal support to our customer.

Responsibilities

• Lead high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate Engineering solutions that meet OME Customer needs.
• Define engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the Engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project.
• Manage the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme.
• Define the organisation and work breakdown, with the Programme Manager, required to deliver to the Customer needs.
• Define and oversee meeting cost, schedule and quality of the whole Engineering delivery for the programme / project.
• Define the Engineering team’s work packages:
  • Resources required;
  • Budgets assigned to each task;
  • Risks and assumptions;
  • Timescales for successful delivery.
• Plan and prioritise activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality.
• Day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities, and risks.
• Manage and report the engineering efficiency for the project.
• Identify re-use opportunities across the project.
• Act as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related STEM discipline.
• Applications are also welcomed from individuals with significant demonstrable experience who don’t hold formal qualifications.

Essential skills

• Engineering Management.
• Project Management understanding (Critical path control, Risk understanding).
• Worked as an engineer on either Hardware, Software or Systems engineering.
• Full knowledge of 'V' lifecycle.
• Leadership & Management.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Resource and Integrated Business Planning.
• Air Defence Systems.
• Dismounted ManPADS.
• In Service and Future.

Desired skills

• Acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
• Dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives
• Engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal
• Creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement
• Supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers

Experience

• Engineering Management, (Problem solving).
• Systems Engineering (MBSE is desirable).
• Leadership & Management.
• Resource and Integrated Business Planning.
• Marine / Air defence projects desirable.
• MOD experience.
• With experience in a client facing role, you’ll possess excellent communication, presentation and problem-solving skills. You’ll also be an accomplished subject matter expert within your profession, demonstrating a broad range of experience, including some of the following skill areas:
  • Planning and estimating.
  • Design and Analytical analysis.
  • Resource Management.
  • Capability development.
  • Project and Commercial Management.
  • Commercial Management

What do I need before I apply

• Right to work in the UK.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Ability to satisfy customer security and export control requirements.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer and partner locations.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive