Engineering Delivery Manager

Fortress Recruit Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortress Recruit Ltd are supporting a leading defence engineering business in the recruitment of an Engineering Delivery Manager, providing functional leadership across the engineering organisation and ensuring engineering capability, resource and output are aligned to programme and business requirements.

This is a full-time, permanent role based on-site in Poole with hybrid flexibility, offering a competitive salary and bonus scheme, plus further training and development opportunity.

Qualifications

• Significant engineering leadership experience in a complex manufacturing, defence, aerospace or regulated environment.
• Proven ability to align engineering activity with live programmes and customer requirements.
• Eligibility for SC clearance (5 years UK residency with no visa or sponsorship).

Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for day-to-day leadership and performance of the engineering function.
• Lead and coordinate engineering Team Leads across mechanical, electrical, electronics and systems/software disciplines.
• Ensure engineering resource is aligned to live programmes, customer requirements and business priorities.
• Taking ownership of engineering workload prioritisation and resource allocation across multiple concurrent programmes.
• Leading the engineering function in supporting programme delivery and achievement of key milestones.
• Taking a proactive approach to identifying and resolving resource, delivery and technical challenges.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Programme delivery

Resource planning

Stakeholder management

Regulatory environment

Job description

Fortress Recruit are supporting a leading defence engineering business in the recruitment of an Engineering Delivery Manager, providing functional leadership across the engineering organisation and ensuring engineering capability, resource and output are aligned to programme and business requirements.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Taking overall responsibility for the day-to-day leadership and performance of the engineering function
• Leading and coordinating engineering Team Leads across mechanical, electrical, electronics and systems/software disciplines
• Ensuring engineering resource is effectively aligned to live programmes, customer requirements and business priorities
• Taking ownership of engineering workload prioritisation and resource allocation across multiple concurrent programmes
• Leading the engineering function in supporting programme delivery and achievement of key milestones
• Taking a proactive approach to identifying and resolving resource, delivery and technical challenges
• Leading the development and capability building of the engineering team
• Ensuring appropriate engineering processes, controls and governance are in place and consistently applied
• Leading continuous improvement across engineering processes, ways of working and team performance
• Working closely with PMO, Operations, Production, Quality and other business functions to maintain alignment and delivery
• Acting as a key interface between Engineering, PMO and wider business functions
• Ensuring engineering best practice is applied across the function, including appropriate use of DFMA, FMEA and structured engineering governance

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Significant engineering experience, including several years in a leadership or functional management position
• Experience leading engineering teams within a complex manufacturing, defence, aerospace or similarly regulated environment
• Proven experience managing engineering resource and delivering against programme delivery requirements
• Experience working through organisational change, competing priorities and resource constraints
• A structured and process-driven approach, with the ability to improve processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
• Strong people leadership and team development capability
• The confidence to challenge, prioritise and make decisions across competing demands
• Eligibility for SC clearance (5 years UK residency with no visa or sponsorship requirement)

This is a key functional leadership role for an experienced engineering leader who can bring structure, clarity and accountability to a busy engineering organisation while ensuring the right people and capability are aligned to programme delivery.

This is a full-time, permanent role based on-site in Poole with hybrid flexibility, offering a competitive salary and bonus scheme, plus further training and development opportunity.