AESA Radar Project Engineering Lead - Supply Chain

Leonardo; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time to Recharge

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Leonardo is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to spearhead a multi-disciplinary team maturing cutting-edge PCB/ PCA designs for the ECRS Mk2 programme, based in Edinburgh or Newcastle. You’ll guide manufacturing readiness, supplier collaboration, and industrialisation, reporting to the Project Engineering Manager and Chief Engineer.

You will drive manufacturing improvements, engage with strategic suppliers, and ensure schedule, cost and quality targets are met while supporting

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Electronics, Physics or equivalent technical discipline.
• Experience leading engineering teams or complex manufacturing, industrialization, NPI or supply chain work packages.
• Experience working with suppliers to improve quality, delivery and manufacturing capability.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, quality systems and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Ability to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Experience leading supplier reviews, audits or performance improvement activities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Self-motivated with ability to provide structure and momentum in delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ECRS Mk2 Supply Chain Improvement Team with direction, prioritisation and governance across supplier improvement, manufacturing maturity and industrialisation activities.
• Deliver a strategy to improve supplier quality, yield, throughput, lead time and production readiness.
• Interface between Leonardo, strategic suppliers and internal stakeholders to advise on design-for-manufacture improvements.
• Drive root-cause investigations and robust corrective/preventive actions.
• Run regular supplier performance reviews focusing on yield, quality, capacity and schedule adherence.
• Conduct supplier assessments, technical reviews and manufacturing readiness evaluations.
• Provide engineering leadership for manufacturing non-conformities and quality issues.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality and Programme teams.
• Promote Design for Manufacture (DfM), Design for Assembly (DfA) and industrialisation best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Manufacturing expertise

NPI experience

Supplier management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Self-motivated

Education

Engineering/related field degree

Job description

Leonardo is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to spearhead a multi-disciplinary team maturing cutting-edge PCB/ PCA designs for the ECRS Mk2 programme, based in Edinburgh or Newcastle. You’ll guide manufacturing readiness, supplier collaboration, and industrialisation, reporting to the Project Engineering Manager and Chief Engineer.

You will drive manufacturing improvements, engage with strategic suppliers, and ensure schedule, cost and quality targets are met while supporting