Chief Systems Engineer & Design Authority - Hybrid

Leonardo; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time to Recharge

Pension up to 15%

Mental health support

Bonus scheme

4,000+ online courses

Referral programme

Flexible benefits £500

Hybrid working

Job summary

Leonardo UK Ltd in Edinburgh is seeking a Chief Systems Engineer and Design Authority to lead the CS3 team's delivery of support solutions for radar capability, ensuring reliability and availability across the UK and internationally.

The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, with an initial 6-month embedded period to work with Design Authorities and develop into the role, including mentoring and shaping change control, obsolescence reviews, and incident management.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background across development, production and support.
• Understand systems-of-systems and broader enterprise dependencies.
• Experience releasing equipment and installations per product and customer needs.
• Experience with certification and release of military equipment.
• Familiarity with design certification and customer acceptance.
• Chartered Engineer with ECUK preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review customer technical queries; initiate investigations and sign off closures.
• Review and improve support and repair processes for continuous improvement.
• Oversee obsolescence and participate in Obsolescence Review Boards for products.
• Review and manage change control impact on equipment and services.
• Coordinate technical responses for repair activities progressing through MRO facilities and Edinburgh plant.
• Conduct product incident reporting and management per company process.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring within the team.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Systems engineering

Technical strategy

Stakeholder management

Obsolescence management

Change control

Military equipment release

Design certification

Education

Chartered Engineer (ECUK)

Job description

Leonardo UK Ltd in Edinburgh is seeking a Chief Systems Engineer and Design Authority to lead the CS3 team's delivery of support solutions for radar capability, ensuring reliability and availability across the UK and internationally.

The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, with an initial 6-month embedded period to work with Design Authorities and develop into the role, including mentoring and shaping change control, obsolescence reviews, and incident management.