System Engineering Manager

Full Job Description

Location: Rochester, Kent (1 day p/w at home)

The Systems Engineering team:

We are looking for experienced and dynamic Systems or Software Team Leaders to step up and provide coordination and strategy for the execution of Systems engineering in Support and Industrialisation (S&I) or Systems/Software engineering in the Airborne Controls Product Realisation Groups (PRG).

These roles will support the functional department and projects by understanding the work package scope, scheduling, resources, and strategy for development across the Systems and Software domains, depending on the PRG you will work for.

What you’ll be doing: Systems Group Leader

• Understanding the top-level packages of work, size, and time phasing across the teams within the PRG, and how these contribute to critical paths and milestones.
• Understanding team sizes and skillsets required across the PRGs.
• Understanding major dependencies or facilities required across the PRGs.
• Contributing to strategic project meetings and facilitating implementation of initiatives.
• Providing regular status updates and recommendations on resourcing requirements to the project and the Functional Manager.
• Supporting projects by creating new estimates for bids and maintaining schedules and budgets for ongoing projects.
• Supporting team members' career development in conjunction with the Functional Manager.

Your skills and experiences: Systems Group Leader

• Proven experience leading a Systems or Software team in relevant product markets and/or domains, such as control systems, real-time displays, or other safety-related systems.
• Proven experience managing projects to tight schedules and budgets.
• Proven experience in requirements management, design analyses, modeling and simulation, code writing and reviewing, using tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, CAMEO, MATLAB, and Simulink.
• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (e.g., Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics).
• Experience in integration, testing, and/or verification of real-time and/or safety-related systems.
• Experience with coding languages such as C/C++ and Python.
• Customer and/or supplier liaison experience for technical aspects, verifying and obtaining agreement that customer needs are satisfied.
• An understanding of information assurance, cybersecurity, and environmental impact aspects related to real-time embedded engineering products.