Hardware Engineering Delivery Manager

Expleo; Reading, Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Expleo is seeking an experienced Hardware Engineering Delivery Manager for our engineering teams in Reading or Glasgow. You will lead hardware work packages for defence and aerospace projects, ensuring technical standards, on-time delivery, and budget adherence.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage priorities, report progress to customers and stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement across delivery processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering delivery management or project management within hardware environments.
• Background in hardware/electronics engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to communicate with customers and cross-functional teams.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver on time, within budget and to standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of hardware work packages, ensuring milestones, budgets and quality.
• Coordinate hardware engineering teams for planning, resource allocation, and delivery.
• Monitor progress, identify risks/dependencies and implement mitigations.
• Collaborate with project managers, technical leads and other disciplines to enable delivery.
• Provide updates to customers and stakeholders on progress and performance.
• Support changes in scope and requirements while maintaining control over delivery.

Skills

Engineering delivery management

Hardware engineering

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Technical leadership

Defence/Aerospace domain knowledge

Job description

Overview

Expleo is looking for an experienced Hardware Engineering Delivery Manager to join our growing engineering team, based in either Reading or Glasgow.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of complex hardware engineering activities within the defence and aerospace sectors. Working closely with engineering teams, project managers and customers, you will be responsible for ensuring hardware work packages are delivered to the required technical standards, on time and within budget.

You will play a key role in coordinating engineering activities, managing project priorities and ensuring effective communication across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of hardware engineering work packages, ensuring milestones, budgets and quality expectations are achieved.
• Coordinate hardware engineering teams to ensure effective planning, resource allocation and delivery.
• Monitor project progress, identifying potential risks, issues and dependencies, and implementing appropriate mitigation plans.
• Work closely with project managers, technical leads and other engineering disciplines to support successful project delivery.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers and key stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress and delivery performance.
• Manage changes to project scope, priorities and technical requirements.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with relevant industry standards, quality processes and project requirements.
• Support the development and improvement of engineering delivery processes.
• Contribute to project reviews, reporting and continuous improvement activities.
• Provide leadership and support to engineering teams, encouraging collaboration and accountability.

Essential skills

• Proven experience in engineering delivery management, work package management or engineering project management.

• Background in hardware engineering, electronics engineering or a related technical discipline.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with customers, project managers and engineering teams.

• Ability to monitor progress, report on delivery performance and implement corrective actions where required.

• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.

• Ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary engineering teams to achieve project objectives.

Desired skills

• Experience delivering complex electronic hardware engineering programmes.
• Knowledge of systems engineering and multidisciplinary engineering environments.
• Experience working within structured project management frameworks.
• Familiarity with project reporting, resource forecasting and financial management.
• Experience working with UK defence customers and security-cleared engineering teams.

Experience

• Proven experience in engineering project delivery, work package management or engineering management.
• A background in hardware engineering, electronics engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Experience coordinating engineering teams and delivering technical projects to agreed timescales and budgets.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience identifying and managing project risks, issues and dependencies.
• Confident communicating with customers, stakeholders and technical teams at different levels.
• A good understanding of engineering lifecycle processes, configuration management and quality assurance.
• Experience working within the defence, aerospace or another highly regulated engineering environment would be advantageous.
• A relevant engineering qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies and changes to delivery plans.
• Experience working within a structured engineering lifecycle and following established quality and configuration management processes.
• Experience working within the defence, aerospace or another complex engineering environment.
• Experience planning, coordinating and delivering engineering activities to agreed timescales, budgets and quality standards.