Hybrid Project Engineering Lead – Aerospace Systems

Leonardo; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12 flexi-days

Generous pension

Mental health support

Coursera & LinkedIn Learning

Referral bonus

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to join the Southampton site on the GCAP programme. You will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver the airborne communications system on this project, ensuring delivery within time, cost and performance constraints.

Reporting to the Project Engineering Manager, you will develop clear plans, manage risks, support bids, and coordinate with project managers and external partners, while building strong relationships across engineering

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree level in an engineering or related science based subject (essential)
• Previous experience of managing and/or leading multi-disciplined engineering teams, taking responsibility for schedule and budget (essential)
• Strong understanding and proven track record of engineering lifecycles and processes (essential)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential)
• Experience of working on the development of hardware electronics, firmware, mechanical and software based products (Essential)
• Experience of working on the development of communications systems (Highly Desirable)
• Experience of collaborating with external partners for a development (sharing of models, code etc) (Desirable)
• Experience of working within the defence or aerospace industry (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the management of a multi-disciplined engineering team across multiple projects.
• Working closely with project managers and project engineering managers, they are responsible for delivery of the overall engineering output against time, cost and performance budgets.
• Project Engineering Leads are responsible for generating clear and relevant engineering plans, establishing key milestones and identifying risks, opportunities and interdependencies.
• Project Engineering Leads are responsible for reviewing the current engineering positions on projects, and adapting plans as required to mitigate risks to either cost, schedule or performance budgets.
• Project Engineering Leads are responsible for preparation and communication of monthly engineering status reports for each of their assigned projects into their line manager, the Head of Engineering Projects
• Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the coordination of engineering input into bids as part of the business winning process.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Cross-functional teams

Engineering lifecycles

Communication

Hardware electronics

Firmware

Mechanical engineering

Software development

Defence/aerospace experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to join the Southampton site on the GCAP programme. You will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver the airborne communications system on this project, ensuring delivery within time, cost and performance constraints.

Reporting to the Project Engineering Manager, you will develop clear plans, manage risks, support bids, and coordinate with project managers and external partners, while building strong relationships across engineering