Engineering Delivery Lead – Complex Programmes

Groupe SII; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SII UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to lead delivery of complex engineering programmes. You will bridge engineering teams and programme leadership, owning planning, coordination, and delivery performance.

You will drive integrated plans, manage risks, and ensure readiness for integration and verification across electronics, hardware, and software domains. The role also involves reporting to senior stakeholders and contributing to bid activities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex engineering programmes.
• Hands-on engineering background in electronics, hardware, or firmware.
• Strong systems engineering lifecycle and integration understanding.
• Experience managing cost, schedule and delivery performance.
• Leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Familiarity with planning tools (MS Project, Primavera, EVM).
• Experience in regulated or safety-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of engineering scope to cost, schedule, performance, and quality targets.
• Define and manage engineering work packages, including scope, deliverables, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain integrated engineering plans, including dependencies, critical paths, and cross-discipline coordination.
• Lead engineering delivery across lifecycle, including requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, and qualification.
• Coordinate and lead design reviews, technical reviews, and lifecycle gates.
• Ensure delivery of engineering artefacts, including Engineering Management Plans, review documentation, and lifecycle evidence.
• Lead integration planning and execution across systems, software, and hardware domains.
• Monitor delivery performance using engineering metrics and drive corrective actions.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, and delivery dependencies.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage engagement with key stakeholders.
• Provide clear and concise reporting to programme and senior stakeholders.
• Support bid and proposal activities with engineering planning and cost estimation.

Skills

Engineering delivery

Project management

Work package management

Electronics hardware systems firmware

Systems engineering lifecycle

Cost, schedule, delivery performance

Planning tools

Stakeholder management

Regulated environments

Leadership of multidisciplinary teams

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

EVM tools

Job description

SII UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to lead delivery of complex engineering programmes. You will bridge engineering teams and programme leadership, owning planning, coordination, and delivery performance.

You will drive integrated plans, manage risks, and ensure readiness for integration and verification across electronics, hardware, and software domains. The role also involves reporting to senior stakeholders and contributing to bid activities.