Project Engineering Lead - Test Solutions

leonardocompany; Basildon; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time to recharge

Pension scheme

Mental health support

Diversity and inclusion networks

Job summary

Leonardo in Basildon is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to join the Test Engineering team, overseeing a multi-disciplinary group on a growing product portfolio. You will provide engineering leadership and ensure delivery of technical solutions in line with roadmaps and business needs.

The role requires delivering clear engineering plans, strong problem-solving, and robust schedule and budget control while maintaining open communication with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Ability to produce clear concise engineering plans.
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Good schedule and budget control.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Commercial awareness and stakeholder engagement across sites.
• Demonstrated leadership with collaborative teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering aspects of test engineering projects, ensuring quality, schedule and budget.
• Manage day-to-day tasks of a multi-disciplinary team with clearly defined roles.
• Create relationships with customers and partners to deliver project capability.
• Communicate progress with IPT leads, Project Managers and functional heads.
• Inform Design Authorities on technical progress and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure design solutions meet milestones and align with the product road map.
• Control configuration and change management to maximise design reuse.
• Support suppliers and make or buy decisions; capture concept solutions and trade-offs.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Engineering lifecycle

Budget control

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Your Impact

Leonardo in Basildon is a world-leading high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. The products developed at Basildon have widespread uses in industrial and civil applications as well as fulfilling many military requirements.

At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any\ accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

The opportunity

Leonardo has an exciting opportunity for a Project Engineering Lead to join the Test Engineering team, supporting three business areas: Land CEMA, Mission Systems and Sensors. With a growing portfolio of development projects, this opportunity has become available.

You will join the test engineering team on a permanent basis to cover an exciting and growing product focussed team. This role will lead the tasking of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver the projects. The Project Engineering Lead will provide the engineering leadership and management in collaboration with the Technical Lead, to identify, develop, deliver and support the technical solutions.

What you'll do as a Project Engineering Lead

As a Project Engineering Lead in Test Engineering, you will be responsible for development, maintenance and enhancements of test capability to meet the needs of the product line. This includes, but is not limited to, owning, developing and executing the strategy required to enable the test equipment to meet the Sector long term Business Plan in line with the Product Maturity& Capability Roadmap, Production Needs and Support requirements.

• Leading the Engineering aspects of test engineering Projects, ensuring technical quality, schedule and budget
• Management of the day-to-day project tasks of a multi-disciplined engineering team, ensuring that roles within the teams are clearly defined
• Create a positive working relationship with customers and partners, to deliver project capability
• Establish and maintain good lines of communication internally across the Engineering IPT's, with the IPT leads, Project Managers, functional heads
• Work closely with the Test Engineering Technical Lead, to inform the Design Authorities and Systems Design Authorities (Chief Engineers) on technical progress, technical risk and any mitigation strategies
• Ensuring the design solutions meet project and test engineering milestones on time and in scope
• Ensure the design solution is compatible with the business area product road map
• Control project configuration and change management to ensure design reuse is maximised.
• Support the management of Suppliers and project Make or Buy decisions
• Candidate concept solutions are captured, including the results of any trade off studies and end user engagement

What we need from you

• Ability to produce clear concise engineering plans
• Good problem-solving ability.
• Good schedule and budget control.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Commercial awareness.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, across multiple sites.
• Strong leadership competency but also can demonstrate team-working skills.
• Knowledge of engineering lifecycle and business process.

It would be nice if you had

• Requirements elicitation and experience of projects involving software development
• New Product Introduction
• Experience of electro-optic or RF products
• Engineering or scientific degree qualification (or equivalent)

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Why join us

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below ar