Strategic Engineering Delivery Lead

SII Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Place To Work

Career development focused environment

Job summary

SII UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of complex engineering programmes. You will bridge engineering teams and programme leadership, owning planning, coordination and delivery performance across multidisciplinary teams.

You will manage cost, schedule and quality targets, develop integrated plans, coordinate reviews and lifecycle gates, and provide clear reporting to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering delivery within complex programmes.
• Hands-on engineering background in electronics, hardware, systems or firmware.
• Strong systems engineering lifecycle understanding and integration skills.
• Experience managing cost, schedule, and delivery performance.
• Familiarity with planning tools such as MS Project, Primavera or EVM.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of engineering scope to cost, schedule, performance, and quality targets.
• Define and manage engineering work packages, milestones and acceptance criteria.
• Develop integrated plans with dependencies and cross-discipline coordination.
• Lead engineering delivery across requirements, design, integration, verification and qualification.
• Coordinate design reviews and lifecycle gates.
• Ensure delivery of artefacts like Engineering Management Plans and review docs.
• 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.
• Provide reporting to programme and senior stakeholders.
• Support bid and proposal activities with engineering planning and cost estimation.

Skills

Engineering delivery

Systems engineering

Stakeholder management

Planning

Multidisciplinary teams

Cost & schedule management

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

EVM

Job description

SII UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of complex engineering programmes. You will bridge engineering teams and programme leadership, owning planning, coordination and delivery performance across multidisciplinary teams.

You will manage cost, schedule and quality targets, develop integrated plans, coordinate reviews and lifecycle gates, and provide clear reporting to senior stakeholders.