Project Engineering Delivery Lead

Alten Ltd; Templecombe; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle & Tech Scheme

Employee assistance programme

Life insurance & Pension Scheme

Job summary

ALTEN is seeking a Project Engineering Delivery Lead to drive complex defence engineering work packages across land, sea, and air domains. The role focuses on leading multidisciplinary teams, coordinating stakeholders, and delivering projects to time, cost, and quality targets from a defence sector background.

Ideal candidates will have 7+ years in engineering leadership, experience with risk management, and familiarity with tools like Primavera P6, MS Project, Jira, and DOORS.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering engineering work packages in a complex technical environment.
• Strong grasp of project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and resource management.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of risk/opportunity management, governance, and performance reporting.
• Ability to drive delivery across full engineering lifecycle to milestones.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of engineering work packages to cost, schedule, and quality targets.
• Coordinate cross-disciplinary engineering teams and stakeholders, manage dependencies and risks.
• Monitor schedules, budgets, and resources with project management teams.
• Support bid, change, and growth activities including planning and engagement.
• Ensure governance and successful programme delivery across defence projects.

Skills

Engineering project delivery

Project planning & scheduling

Budgeting & resource mgmt

Cross-functional leadership

Delivery governance & reporting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Jira

DOORS

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

At ALTEN, we support some of the UK's most complex and critical defence programmes, helping deliver advanced technologies across land, sea, and air domains.

We are looking for experienced Project Engineering Delivery Leads to join our growing defence teams, supporting the delivery of complex engineering work packages across major defence programmes. This role is ideal for candidates with a background in Systems, Software, Hardware, Electronics, or Project Engineering who have moved into engineering leadership and delivery-focused positions.

• Location: Templecombe or London
• On-site Requirement: 4 days per week onsite
• Seniority: Mid-Senior Level (7+ years' experience)
• Security Clearance: Candidates must be willing and eligible to obtain SC clearance.

Key Responsibilities & Experience

• Lead the delivery of engineering work packages, ensuring activities are completed to agreed cost, schedule, and quality targets.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and stakeholders, driving progress, managing dependencies, actions, and delivery risks, and providing regular performance updates.
• Monitor project schedules, resource allocation, budgets, and delivery performance, working closely with project management, project controls, and engineering leadership teams.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring effective engineering governance and successful programme delivery.
• Support bid, change, and growth activities, including estimating, planning, solution development, and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Engineering project, delivery, or work package management experience within a complex technical environment.
• Strong understanding of project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and resource management.
• Experience managing cross-functional engineering teams and engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of risk and opportunity management, delivery governance, and performance reporting.
• Ability to coordinate activities across the full engineering lifecycle and drive delivery to committed milestones.
• Experience working within Defence, Aerospace, Naval, Security, or other highly regulated sectors.

Soft Skills & Collaboration

• Strong leadership and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Ability to influence and coordinate teams without direct line management responsibility.
• Proactive approach to problem solving and decision making.
• Comfortable operating within complex programme environments and managing competing priorities.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or relevant technical military background with equivalent experience.

Desirable Skills

• Background in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Jira, DOORS, Confluence, or similar project and engineering management tools.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, change requests, or business growth activities.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) methodologies.
• Experience working on radar, communications, mission systems, underwater systems, or other defence programmes.

Benefits

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team building
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)

Equal Opportunity Statement

ALTEN is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and values the strength that comes from a global mix of backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of background or protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.