Programme Engineering

ZipRecruiter; Glenrothes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in military power supplies seeks a Programme Engineering Manager for a 12-month contract in Glenrothes, Scotland. The role involves overseeing engineering execution, managing multi-disciplinary activities, and ensuring product development meets high standards. The successful candidate will lead a team, report to senior stakeholders, and drive project success in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in mission-critical electronic product design and certification.
• Strong engineering leadership in a matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Planning Engineering work packages and managing risk.
• Progress reporting to leadership and supporting engineers.
• Mentoring engineers for technical leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Project Management

Risk Management

Job description

Job Description

Programme Engineering Manager

We’re searching for an outstanding, hands-on Programme Engineering Manager with depth of experience in mission-critical product development, qualification and production. The successful individual will work within our clients Power business—which has a long, successful history in the development of bespoke military power supplies—driving Engineering Execution on a challenging product development programme.

This is a key role with accountability for delivery of daily, weekly and monthly Engineering deliverables within quality, schedule and cost constraints. Planning, driving, tracking, supporting and reporting of multi-disciplinary Engineering activities will form the core basis of this role, as will effective and efficient problem solving, drawing upon your skills and experience from similar programmes.

As a Programme Engineering Manager, you will be acting in a Technical Project Manager capacity, sitting within—and with accountability for—the Engineering team but representing the Engineering team to the Programme.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience leading and managing mission-critical electronic product design, qualification and certification programmes to exacting customer and industry standards
• Fast learner, with the ability to hit the ground running and make a positive impact quickly
• Experience of transition of products to manufacture and manufacturing support
• Have highly developed written and oral communication skills with a proven track record in skilful navigation of senior stakeholders across business and industry
• A track record of strong engineering leadership, of delivering through others in a matrix organisation, a structured approach to problem solving
• Highly dependable, autonomous, resilient and results oriented

Responsibilities

• Planning of Engineering work packages; use your experience leading product development programmes to shape logic that effectively manages risk and pushes the programme forward, validate and challenge assumptions and estimates, ensure resources are loaded effectively, and embody plans into Microsoft Project
• Develop and use visual management techniques to identify, prioritise, track and drive the daily and weekly execution rhythm of the programme, decomposing work packages from the IMS into actionable tasks
• Progress reporting to the Programme, Business and Raytheon UK Leadership Team on a recurring basis
• Support Engineers in the achievement of their tasks, connecting them with, and interfacing with other functions within the programme team, on their behalf
• Close liaison with Programme Design Authority and Chief Engineer to ensure technical integrity of work products
• Risk and Change Management for all Engineering deliverables, including effective monitoring and mitigation
• Motivate and coach Engineering team members to success, demonstrating and communicating technical expectations for execution, accountability and execution discipline
• Mentoring engineers for technical leadership, technical leads and IPT leaders.

• This is a 12 month Contract, based out of Glenrothes, Scotland. A hybrid role with 3 days onsite paying circa £70/hr.