Project Engineering Manager (PEM)

Prattwhitney; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Contributory Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

25 days holiday + holidays

Company bonus scheme

Flexible Benefits scheme

Enhanced sick pay

Family leave policies

37hr week with early finish on Fridays

Remote, hybrid and site-based working

Volunteer days

Job summary

Pratt & Whitney is seeking a Project Engineering Manager to lead the Air Traffic Management Systems team in delivering advanced sensors and related services to a global customer base. The role focuses on engineering leadership, cross-functional collaboration and ensuring technical excellence across projects.

The candidate will drive planning, execution and performance reporting, while managing risks, cost baselines and stakeholder communications to achieve profitable delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in delivering complex multi-disciplined development programmes.
• Extensive experience in systems engineering and guiding high-performance cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of financial management and programme impact.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and leadership with stakeholder relationship skills.
• Ability to provide efficient solutions to diverse business problems.
• Capability to advise programme teams and senior stakeholders effectively.
• Broad technical background in systems design and integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering global sensors and weapons products and services.
• Develop and coordinate engineering plans aligned to programme needs from bid phase to delivery.
• Manage work packages with planning, tracking and KPI reporting.
• Serve as external technical focal point and liaison to customers and partners.
• Collaborate with Design Authority to ensure programme technical integrity.
• Lead risk and change management to mitigate delivery risk and cost overruns.
• Oversee resource planning, performance goals and timesheet management.

Skills

Program management

Systems engineering

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Cross-functional leadership

Aerospace domain knowledge

Software development awareness

Education

BSc/BEng in Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering

Tools

Earned value management

Systems engineering tools

Job description

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:

• 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.

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Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.