System Integration Project Planner Lead Engineer

Contechs; Lighthorne; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Contechs in the United Kingdom is seeking a System Integration Project Planner Lead Engineer on a contract basis to drive maturity, status, and delivery impact of customer features across vehicle programmes.

You translate programme requirements into time-based delivery targets, collaborating with cross-functional teams to manage risks and blockers and to ensure readiness for programme gateways and final sign-off.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of the Systems Design Life Cycle.
• Experience with engineering analysis and best-practice processes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to influence delivery teams across the engineering function.
• Experience with programme and project delivery processes including JIRA tooling.
• Experience in the integration and delivery of electrical, electromechanical or software systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead timely delivery of vehicle features and remove integration risks and blockers.
• Align engineering domain delivery plans with programme milestones.
• Drive resolution of cross-functional integration issues.
• Collaborate with programme planners and Core VE teams to align plans.
• Identify and communicate dependencies, risks, and delivery glide paths.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes and reporting.

Skills

Systems engineering

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical analysis

Tools

JIRA

Office 365

Job description

Position Title: System Integration Project Planner Lead Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

The Opportunity:

• The Central Systems Integration (CSI) team is responsible for integrating all customer features and functions into vehicle programmes.
• The team ensures seamless cross-functional collaboration across all phases of feature, systems, and software delivery, from requirements definition to test execution, enabling controlled and timely introduction of features into target electrical architectures.
• The System Integration Project Planner Lead Engineer is accountable for the maturity, status, and delivery impact of customer features across vehicle programmes, ensuring readiness for programme gateways and final sign-off.
• The role translates programme requirements into clear, time-based delivery targets and ensures successful execution through collaboration, risk management, and issue resolution.
• The role also ensures transparency by consolidating stakeholder inputs into a clear view of feature availability and maturity aligned to programme milestones, while reporting KPIs and risks to stakeholders.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Understand programme feature content, ensure feature design progression is on track to meet programme requirements;
• Support timely cascade of feature/function demands to technical domains based on identified programme needs, escalating where appropriate;
• Facilitate resolution of any feature issues and roadblocks to achieve Final Engineering Sign-off to agreed date;

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Lead timely delivery of vehicle features and remove integration risks and blockers
• Align engineering domain delivery plans with programme milestones
• Drive resolution of cross-functional integration issues
• Collaborate with programme planners and Core VE teams to align plans
• Identify and communicate dependencies, risks, and delivery glide paths
• Drive continuous improvement in processes and reporting

Key Interactions

• Feature & Software Domain Product Owners & Integration Leads
• System Integration Engineers, System and feature owners (peers leading other platforms)
• Cross Domain Feature Leaders and Central Systems Integration Functions

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Thorough understanding of the Systems Design Life Cycle - system definition, system architecture development, requirements specification, design reviews, systems integration, system assessment and acceptance;
• Demonstrated experience of technical analysis and employing best-in-class processes in engineering;
• Excellent interpersonal skills - able to collaboratively influence delivery teams across the engineering function;
• Proven ability to interpret and use technical data along with business skills with technical decision-making including risk identification.
• Good working knowledge of Office 365.
• Experience of engineering product delivery using project management techniques
• Experience of programme and project delivery processes including JIRA toolset use
• Experience in the integration and delivery of electrical, electromechanical or software systems

Personal Profile

• Demonstrates the Clients' Creators' Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact, continually working hard to deliver a modern luxury experience to earn and keep the customers' trust and loyalty.
• An individual who is results driven, demonstrates, tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment.
• Embracing differences, being empathetic, welcoming challenges together empowering each other to deliver.
• Building trust by speaking openly and honestly, listening attentively, and treating others respectfully.
• Taking initiative and using failure as an opportunity to learn, our Client develop by giving + seeking honest feedback.
• Making a difference through our results, our Client innovates and never loses sight of what they want to achieve.
• An individual who can demonstrate good capability in leading cross functional collaborative groups.
• An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style
• A good communicator who is able to communicate directly, clearly and openly to all levels
• Willingness to work flexibly, in terms of location within the UK and hours (within core business hours).