Project Engineering Manager (PEM)

Raytheon UK; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme up to 10.5%

Life assurance (6x salary)

25 days holiday + buy/sell up to 5

Discretionary bonus scheme

Flexible benefits package

Enhanced sick pay

Family friendly policies

Job summary

Raytheon UK in Harlow, Essex, invites an experienced Project Engineering Manager to lead an integrated engineering team within our Air Traffic Management Systems portfolio, delivering class-leading systems to a global customer base. You will drive technical excellence, manage schedules and costs, and collaborate across disciplines to ensure profitable delivery.

You will mentor a high-performing team, coordinate engineering plans from bid to delivery, and maintain strong engagement with internal

Qualifications

• Proven delivery of complex multi-disciplinary development programmes.
• Extensive systems engineering leadership of high-performance cross-functional teams.
• Strong financial management understanding and cost awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team across global sensors and weapons products.
• Develop and coordinate engineering plans aligned to programme needs and standards.
• Manage work packages with planning, tracking and KPI reporting.
• Act as external technical liaison with customers and Design Authority.
• Oversee risk, change, and earned value management for deliverables.
• Ensure adherence to baseline schedule and programme costs.
• Direct and indirect people management including timesheets and performance goals.

Skills

Project management

Systems engineering

Financial management

Leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

BSc / BEng in Engineering

Job description

Summary of Role:

Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge, working as part of an experienced integrated programme team, in a customer focussed delivery Environment? Do you relish the opportunity to lead and develop a high performing, cross functional technical team, to drive continuous improvement to their technical delivery and innovation into our products? Are you comfortable in leading technical engagements with culturally diverse customers and leading an experienced Engineering team, to achieve technical excellence and profitable delivery? If so, then you may be what we’re looking for.

Date Posted:

2026-10-01

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Project Engineering Manager

Harlow, Hybrid (3 days a week onsite)

SC eligible

Summary of Role:

Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge, working as part of an experienced integrated programme team, in a customer focussed delivery Environment? Do you relish the opportunity to lead and develop a high performing, cross functional technical team, to drive continuous improvement to their technical delivery and innovation into our products? Are you comfortable in leading technical engagements with culturally diverse customers and leading an experienced Engineering team, to achieve technical excellence and profitable delivery? If so, then you may be what we’re looking for.

We are currently recruiting for a Project Engineering Manager to join our Air Traffic Management Systems team for the delivery of class leading new and upgraded systems to a global base of customers

Main Duties:

As the key IPT (Integrated Programme Team) member for engineering for one or more of our projects, your main duties would include:

• Engineering leadership of a multi disciplined team of technical experts, responsible for the technical development and delivery of global sensors and weapons products and services to various customers around the world.
• Generation / Coordination of the Engineering development plans, execution against Raytheon’s standards and gating model, and aligned to the overall Programme’s needs from early bid phase through to final delivery
• Work package management for the team including planning, tracking, and reporting of key performance indicators for the work to be performed, working collaboratively with the Programme Manager and rest of the Integrated Programme Team.
• External technical first point of contact and liaison for key internal and external customer organisations, including regular reporting of status using agreed methods and measures
• Close liaison with Design Authority to ensure technical integrity of programmes
• Risk and Change Management for all engineering deliverables, including effective planning, mitigations and monitoring to reduction of risk or closure
• Management and delivery adherence to the programme baseline schedule and costs, using ‘earned value’ techniques.
• Direct and Indirect team management across disciplines, including resource planning, performance goal setting, reward, recognition and timesheets

Candidate Requirements:

Essential:

• Proven expertise in managing delivery of complex multi-disciplined development programmes, using discretion in tailoring effectively to meet challenging programme needs.
• Extensive experience in systems engineering and guidance of multidiscipline, high-performance teams (cross-functional experience highly desirable) through engineering development cycle.
• Clear understanding of financial management and impacts on programmes
• Demonstrated competency for strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management.
• Demonstrated competency in relating efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
• Proven ability to work independently, as well as a member of a team and ability to advise programme teams and stakeholders.
• Broad based technical background with experience in systems design and integration.
• Knowledge of software development and delivery methodologies
• BSc / BEng. in Engineering, Science, or Aeronautical Engineering.

Desirable:

• Experience within UK/US International defence industry or similar adjacent industry

Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.