Portfolio Delivery Lead, Systems Engineering

MBDA Missile Systems; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Pension

Overtime

Flexi Leave

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Facilities

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

MBDA Missile Systems is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Team Lead in the UK to manage portfolio engineering activities across the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio. You will handle technical risks, obsolescence and engineering commonality while coordinating with internal teams and senior stakeholders.

The role demands broad technical knowledge, strong influencing skills, and a balance of technical and business delivery focus. The position features hybrid working and performance-based benefits.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a engineering discipline, with a good understanding f product lifecycle including the design and development process for electro-mechanical equipment.
• The ability to work with, influence, and challenge where required including senior MOD and MBDA management
• A flexible mind-set, able to tackle problems and develop genuinely innovative solutions for design challenges
• Ability to understand sophisticated technical problems, often with a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and inconsistency
• Effectively manage your priorities when presented with issues from multiple projects
• You are able to concisely summarise multi-faceted problems and influence, lead and empower teams positively

Responsibilities

• The Delivery Lead is responsible for the management of Portfolio engineering activities associated with the delivery of the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio, including management of technical risks, obsolescence and engineering commonality.
• The role demands a motivated individual with broad technical knowledge, and good influencing skills.
• It would suit someone who is looking for a balance of technical understanding and broader business delivery aspects.
• The successful individual will get exposure to wider Portfolio factors such as financial efficiencies, operational performance, exportability and Freedom of Action to the UK MoD.
• A chance to use the knowledge and experience you have gained to help steer and shape the delivery of the MBDA UK portfolio of products.
• The opportunity to develop and implement new ways of working, building on past successes but with the freedom to innovate.
• Work with projects to improve the efficiency of Commonality, Modularity & Reuse and reduce hardships
• Review predicted and measured benefits to ensure realism from an engineering point of view
• Work with internal teams to ensure that programme plans for dependencies exist
• Act as the point of contact between Functions, Equipment Teams, Centres of Excellence and the Portfolio as risks or issues arise
• Ensure solutions for portfolio obsolescence removal does not affect the dependencies established

Skills

Engineering experience

Influence & leadership

Flexible mindset

Complex problem understanding

Prioritisation across projects

Concise problem summarisation

Job description

MBDA Missile Systems is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Team Lead in the UK to manage portfolio engineering activities across the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio. You will handle technical risks, obsolescence and engineering commonality while coordinating with internal teams and senior stakeholders.

The role demands broad technical knowledge, strong influencing skills, and a balance of technical and business delivery focus. The position features hybrid working and performance-based benefits.