Global Project Delivery Engineer, Ocean Robotics

Oshen; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Oshen in Plymouth is seeking a technically fluent project leader who owns customer programmes end to end. You will scope, plan, integrate sensors and payloads, manage schedules, budgets and risks, and act as the technical face of the company to defence customers, government scientists and offshore teams.

You will travel regularly across the UK and internationally, work with engineers in the workshop and on ships, run reviews and workshops, and help turn objectives into clear delivery plans while

Qualifications

• Two to five years is a useful guide rather than a hard gate.
• You have an engineering or STEM degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Project management experience is helpful (APM, PRINCE2 or Agile) or a track record of running technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Turn a customer’s objective into a mission concept, scope, delivery plan and clear success measures.
• Work with engineers to integrate a new sensor or payload, then bench tests, sea trials and deployment.
• Plan practical details: vessels, shipping, export licences, customer training, spares, data delivery and risk.
• Run customer reviews and technical workshops, and communicate clearly when plans must change.
• Manage programme schedule, budget and dependencies, avoiding unnecessary process.
• Spot risks early and take unglamorous steps to remove them.
• Capture lessons from deployments to improve tools and processes.

Skills

Excellent communicator

Organised

High agency

Calm under pressure

Willing to travel

Technical project management

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Oshen in Plymouth is seeking a technically fluent project leader who owns customer programmes end to end. You will scope, plan, integrate sensors and payloads, manage schedules, budgets and risks, and act as the technical face of the company to defence customers, government scientists and offshore teams.

You will travel regularly across the UK and internationally, work with engineers in the workshop and on ships, run reviews and workshops, and help turn objectives into clear delivery plans while