Portfolio Delivery Team Lead

MBDA; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Pension (14%)

Paid overtime

Flexi leave

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Site facilities

Healthcare plan

Job summary

MBDA Bolton is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Team Lead to steer the engineering delivery of the Complex Weapons portfolio. The role combines on-site leadership with hybrid working 2–3 days per week due to workload.

The successful candidate will manage technical risks, obsolescence issues and drive efficiency in commonality, modularity and reuse across projects, while engaging with MBDA and MOD stakeholders to ensure realistic benefits and schedules.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an engineering discipline with product lifecycle understanding.
• Ability to influence and challenge at senior MOD/MBDA levels.
• A flexible mindset to develop innovative design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering activities for MBDA UK portfolio delivery.
• Lead risk handling, obsolescence control and engineering commonality.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure dependency plans exist.
• Act as point of contact between functions, teams and portfolio risks.

Skills

Engineering experience

Product lifecycle

Influence senior staff

Problem solving

Leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Bolton

Job Title: Portfolio Delivery Team Lead

Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS).

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

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.

• 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 do not affect the dependencies established.

What we're looking for from you:

• Significant experience in an engineering discipline, with a good understanding of 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‑factual problems and influence, lead and empower teams positively.

Our Business

We respect new perspectives and experiences, and we value our collaborative ways of working. We are committed to growing and supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their potential. MBDA is proud of our employee‑led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more.

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process. We also welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements.