Project Engineering Lead

Leonardo; Basildon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Leonardo offers an exciting opportunity for a Project Engineering Lead in Basildon. This role involves managing engineering teams across diverse projects, ensuring compliance with requirements, and preparing engineering plans. Candidates must have an engineering degree and experience in leading teams, particularly within the defence industry, making this a key position in the company's innovative projects.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and leading multi-disciplined engineering teams is essential.
• Proven track record in engineering lifecycles and processes is required.
• Must have experience within the defence industry.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-disciplined engineering teams across multiple projects.
• Generate clear engineering plans and identify risks.
• Prepare and communicate monthly engineering status reports.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Engineering Lifecycle Understanding

Education

Degree level in an engineering-related subject

Job description

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At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Project Engineering Lead within our Land Communications Integrated Project Team (IPT), part of the Comms and Force protection Business Area within Integrated Sensing and Protection.

Within this IPT, the projects are diverse and exciting. There is a wide portfolio of work from core products that have been in service for many years and will continue to be so, requiring support and development to enable this, alongside numerous forward looking developments, technology demonstrators and research projects that put us at the cutting edge of technology. Products within this business area range from soldier radios in service with many militaries across the world and world leading force protection products all designed and manufactured within Leonardo following a full engineering lifecycle process. With all of this, the opportunity to be involved as a Project Engineering Lead represents a chance to be at the heart of a diverse range of technologies and exciting projects.

Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the total engineering activity undertaken on a project or portfolio of projects and so manage cross-disciplined engineering teams. The Project Engineering Lead is tasked to ensure that the engineering team delivers a solution that is compliant with the customer technical requirements; contractual requirements; and legislative requirements. Working closely with Project Managers, the Project Engineering Lead must effectively plan and manage the engineering effort within projects from a performance, schedule and cost perspective.

Reporting to a Project Engineering Manager, the Project Engineering Lead contributes to the monthly engineering governance cycle through preparation of engineering status reports. Project Engineering Leads build strong relationships with Engineering Functional Leads to ensure the resourcing plans for their projects are realistic and any issues arising are resolved swiftly. Project Engineering Leads play a key role in business winning activities, coordinating the collection of engineering costs, preparation of engineering plans and holding engineering bid reviews.
The role requires a candidate who is self-motivated, proactive and enthusiastic, with strong leadership and communication skills. The ability to foster and develop effective working relationships is key to ensure engineers perform to the levels required of the projects. A strong commercial and business awareness is also essential to ensure that the engineering effort can be managed in the correct context for each given project.

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Key Responsibility Areas

• Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the management of multi-disciplined engineering teams across multiple projects. Working closely with Project 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 Project Engineering Manager.
• Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the coordination of engineering input into bids as part of the business winning process.
• This role sits on the multi-functional management team of the Land Communications business area, representing engineering on that team at weekly and monthly progress and reporting meetings.

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Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required

The following skills and experience are required:

• Educated to a degree level in an engineering-related subject (essential)
• Previous experience of managing and/or leading multi-disciplined engineering teams (essential)
• Strong understanding and proven track record of engineering lifecycles and processes (essential)
• An appreciation of RF and equipment designs (desirable)
• An appreciation of supporting products through manufacture both low and high volume manufacture (desirable)
• Experience of working within the defence industry (desirable)

You must have demonstrable relevant experience and proven success your previous roles.
You must have well-rounded engineering experience in all phases of the design lifecycle, and must have previous significant exposure to all aspects of engineering planning.