Strategic Engineering Delivery Lead for Complex Programs

Groupe SII; Templecombe; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

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.

Responsibilities include defining work packages, integrated planning, lifecycle management, and stakeholder reporting. The role requires hands-on delivery in electronics, hardware, systems or firmware, with strong systems engineering

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering delivery and project management within complex programmes.
• Experience in managing work packages, cost, schedule, and acceptance criteria.
• Strong systems engineering understanding and cross-discipline coordination.

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 critical paths.
• Lead engineering delivery across lifecycle: requirements, design, integration, verification, and qualification.
• Coordinate design reviews and lifecycle gates; ensure artefacts and documentation are delivered.
• 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 dependencies; report to stakeholders.
• Support bid and proposal activities with engineering planning and cost estimation.

Skills

Engineering delivery

Project management

Work package management

Systems engineering

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Regulated environments

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

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.

Responsibilities include defining work packages, integrated planning, lifecycle management, and stakeholder reporting. The role requires hands-on delivery in electronics, hardware, systems or firmware, with strong systems engineering