Project Engineering Lead - Test Solutions
Leonardo
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Job summary
Leonardo in Basildon is seeking a Project Engineering Lead to head the Test Engineering team across Land CEMA, Mission Systems and Sensors. The role focuses on developing and sustaining test capabilities, aligning with the Product Maturity and Capability Roadmap, Production Needs and Support requirements.
You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, coordinate with the Technical Lead and customers, and drive technical progress while maintaining schedule and budget.
Qualifications
- 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 and teamwork.
- Knowledge of engineering lifecycle and business processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Engineering aspects of test engineering projects, ensuring technical quality, schedule and budget.
- Manage day-to-day project tasks of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, ensuring roles are clearly defined.
- Establish and maintain relationships with customers and partners to deliver project capability.
- Communicate progress, risks and mitigations to Design Authorities and Systems Design Authorities.
- Ensure design solutions meet milestones and align with product road map.
- Oversee change control and configuration management to maximise design reuse.
- Support management of suppliers and project execution.
- Make or buy decisions as appropriate.
- Capture candidate concept solutions and document trade-off studies.
Skills
Education
Job description
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.
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 and 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-disciplinary 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
- 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
- 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)
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
At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work-life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we're here to help you thrive.
- 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 are eligible for our bonus scheme.
- Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000 online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
- Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
- Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
- Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.
- For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.
Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.
Primary Location: GB - Basildon
Contract Type: Permanent
Hybrid Working: Hybrid
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