Programme Engineering Manager

Pratt & Whitney; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company seeks a Programme Engineering Manager to oversee a diverse engineering team and ensure successful project delivery. The role involves governance, risk management, and collaboration with various functions to meet program objectives. Candidates should possess strong systems engineering and project management skills, with a focus on team leadership and effective communication.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

25 days holiday + statutory public holidays

Contributory Pension Scheme

Company bonus scheme

Flexible Benefits scheme

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in systems engineering and project management.
• Ability to manage engineering budgets and recruitment.
• Strong leadership skills for multi-faceted teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering deliverables and governance for the Delta programme.
• Report on KPIs and manage risks for engineering outputs.
• Coordinate resources and maintain compliance with EHS standards.

Skills

Systems engineering

Project management

Risk management

Team management

Tools

Jira

Job description

Date Posted:

2025-03-07

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

GBR13: Home - Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Programme Engineering Manager

Hybrid with UK wide travel

Raytheon UK

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers. With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.

About the role:

Our Programme Engineering Manager (PEM) is central to the Engineering team, managing the efforts of a team of engineers with a variety of skills and backgrounds to achieve the required outputs of a complex and challenging programme. You are responsible to the Senior PEM and will work in tandem with the Training Solution Lead (Chief Engineer).

The PEM forms part of the Programme Leadership Team, and will routinely interact with the other functions, though principally the Programme Management Office, Finance, Sub-Contract Management and Commercial.

Main duties include:

• Provide governance and progress reporting of the Engineering deliverables for the Delta programme, which includes reporting at various levels.
• Generation, maintenance and review of the engineering development plans and then execution against Raytheon’s standards and aligned to the overall Programme’s needs
• Creation and governance of accurate Basis of Estimates (BOE) for new work alongside the update of BOE’s for existing work to support planning and the Raytheon UK Estimate At Complete (EAC) process.
• Work package management including planning, tracking and reporting of key performance indicators for the work to be performed, working collaboratively with the Senior PEM, Training Equipment Manager, Chief Engineer and wider Programme Team
• Maintain and promote regular updates across the engineering team for task tracking and reporting using the approved tools
• Report on agreed KPIs monthly.
• Programme adherence to the Engineering resource plan, costs and schedule for the programme deliverables, utilising Earned Value techniques where applicable. Variance and root cause analysis reporting.
• Management, and tasking for internal projects such as tooling delivery, improvement or migration activities
• Support the wider development team to identify issues or opportunities and strategize resolution plans to keep to the schedule and budget.
• Risk management for all Engineering deliverables, including effective mitigations and monitoring to reduction of risk to closure.
• Ensure all documentation and deliverables are managed via a Configuration Management / Data Management plan that meets the programme needs.
• Co-ordinating resources and collating responses, following the Company’s corporate governance policies, processes and procedures, including Gate Reviews
• Managing and maintaining a complete and accurate master skills list for all Engineers
• Be ‘Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement’.

Essential Requirements:

• The ability to plan, organise and drive forward the efforts of a multi-faceted engineering team to delivery the required programme outcomes according to time, quality and cost limitations.
• Knowledge and experience of the principles of systems engineering.
• A solid grasp of programme and project management principles and tools.
• An understanding of risk management such that you can take ownership of all engineering risks.
• Working with large teams, including their tasking and budgeting.
• The ability to develop/maintain job descriptions for the engineering team.
• Ability to summarise complex ongoing delivery and issues for upwards reporting.
• Management of recruitment and interviewing for the engineering team.
• Management of communications within the engineering team.
• Production of estimates of costs against known or future scopes of work.
• Ability to manage all of the engineering budgets, and to regularly reforecast expected costs to end of project.
• Be able to travel to programme and customer meetings across the UK as required.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience of working on UK Government projects, preferably within a defence/security environment.
• Experience of training projects constructed in line with Defence Systems Approach to Training (JSP 822).
• Experience of Earned Value Management techniques.
• Experience of Jira as a task management tool.
• Experience of systems engineering.

Should you require any adjustments to support you in the recruitment process please discuss with your recruiter.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTX

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

#LI-BZ1

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Privacy Policy and Terms:

Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms