Strategic Engineering Delivery Lead

SII Group UK; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SII UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to lead delivery of complex engineering programmes, ensuring on-time, within-cost, and high-quality outcomes across multidisciplinary teams.

You will bridge engineering and programme leadership, owning planning, coordination, and delivery performance while engaging stakeholders and supporting bid activities with engineering planning and cost estimation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering delivery, project management, or work package management within complex programmes.
• Hands-on engineering experience in electronics, hardware, systems or firmware engineering.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle and integration challenges.
• Experience managing cost, schedule, and delivery performance.
• Experience using planning and control tools (e.g. MS Project, Primavera, EVM tools).
• Background in leading multidisciplinary engineering teams with stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in integration planning and execution, managing dependencies and readiness for integration/verification.
• Strong communication skills and experience in regulated environments (defence, aerospace, rail, nuclear).

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of engineering scope to cost, schedule, performance, and quality targets.
• Define and manage engineering work packages, including scope, deliverables, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain integrated engineering plans with dependencies and cross-discipline coordination.
• Lead engineering delivery across lifecycle: requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, qualification.
• Coordinate design reviews, technical reviews, and lifecycle gates.
• Ensure delivery of artefacts, including Engineering Management Plans, review docs, and lifecycle evidence.
• Lead integration planning across systems, software, and hardware domains.
• Monitor delivery performance using engineering metrics and drive corrective actions.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, and delivery dependencies.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and engage with stakeholders.
• Provide reporting to programme and senior stakeholders.
• Support bid/proposal activities with engineering planning and cost estimation.

Skills

Delivery management

Program management

Systems engineering

Cost/schedule control

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Cross-disciplinary coordination

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Earned Value Management

Job description

SII UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to lead delivery of complex engineering programmes, ensuring on-time, within-cost, and high-quality outcomes across multidisciplinary teams.

You will bridge engineering and programme leadership, owning planning, coordination, and delivery performance while engaging stakeholders and supporting bid activities with engineering planning and cost estimation.