Hybrid Project Engineering Lead – Aerospace & Defence

Leonardo; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Pension scheme

Mental health support

Learning & development

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Flexible benefits up to £500

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to join our Electronic Warfare and Future Combat Air Lines of Business on a permanent basis. The role entails leading engineering across a multi-site IPT, ensuring technical quality, schedule and budget, and coordinating with customers, partners and systems authorities.

You will mentor the engineering team, manage changes, and ensure designs meet end-user requirements while aligning with the business roadmap. Travel within the UK is expected.

Qualifications

• Ability to produce clear concise engineering plans.
• Good problem-solving ability.
• Good schedule and budget control.
• Strong leadership and teamwork.
• Willingness to travel within the UK and possibly overseas.

Responsibilities

• Leading the Engineering aspects of the Project, ensuring technical quality, schedule and budget.
• Management of cross-site, multi-disciplined engineering teams, ensuring that roles within the teams are clearly defined.
• Creating a positive working relationship with customers and partners, to deliver project capability.
• Establishing and maintaining good lines of communication internally across the Engineering IPT, with the IPT lead, Project Manager and Functional Heads.
• Working closely with the Systems Design Authority ensuring they are fully informed on technical progress, technical risk and any mitigation strategies.
• Ensuring the design solution meets the end user requirement, is reliable, fully documented and works within the designated environment.
• Ensuring the design solution is compatible with the business area route map.
• Controlling project configuration and change management to ensure design reuse is maximised.
• Support the management of Suppliers and project Make or Buy decisions.
• Ensuring Candidate concept solutionsare captured, including the results of any trade off studies and end user engagement
• Development of the Engineering Team, providing mentoring, coaching, setting objectives and appraising.

Skills

Engineering plans

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Budget management

Cross-site coordination

Problem solving

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to join our Electronic Warfare and Future Combat Air Lines of Business on a permanent basis. The role entails leading engineering across a multi-site IPT, ensuring technical quality, schedule and budget, and coordinating with customers, partners and systems authorities.

You will mentor the engineering team, manage changes, and ensure designs meet end-user requirements while aligning with the business roadmap. Travel within the UK is expected.