Systems Engineering Manager

Ultra; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover

25 days holiday plus 5

Pension Contribution

Life Assurance

Flexible working hours

Cycle to work scheme

Security Clearance Allowance

Job summary

Ultra in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced engineering leader to manage concurrent projects within the defence/aerospace sector. You will drive system engineering lifecycle activities, lead multi-discipline teams and ensure delivery to scope, cost and schedule.

Responsibilities include governance, risk management, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement with customers and suppliers. A strong background in ISO processes and security clearances is essential, with willingness to travel

Qualifications

• Full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle and models.
• Proven engineering management and mentoring skills.
• Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions.
• Ability to quantify Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities.
• Experience with engineering lifecycle tools, configuration management and metrics.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of various sizes.
• Lead and coordinate multi-discipline engineering tasking and dependencies.
• Support program planning and scheduling, proposing optimisations to schedule logic.
• Monitor resources, recruitment and upskilling to meet budgets and timelines.
• Ensure artefacts are delivered to governance, budgets and schedules.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and manage change across the project.
• Coordinate engineering resources and provide input for business reporting.
• Travel within the UK to customer and supplier sites as required.

Job description

Description

• Provision of engineering leadership and management of concurrent engineering to ensure that assigned projects and tasking are delivered to scope, cost and schedule.
• Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes in accordance with business, management and technical processes.
• Lead all project engineering activities and the team, aligned to ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 processes, defining and continuous implementation of a systems approach.
• Effectively delegate responsibilities, monitoring and managing progress to achieve the scope of the engineering to satisfaction of the budget, schedule and governance stakeholders.
• Assure and govern the implementation and application of engineering in accordance with the agreed plans and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale.
• Leads, defines, delegates and monitors the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed cross the multi-discipline project team
• Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team, Supports the Program Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.
• Proactively working with wider business stakeholders, especially governance, to ensure processes are followed/tailored agreements are implemented upon and maintained.
• Continuous realisation of resource and dependency needs to permit upskills, supply and recruitment; working with the discipline leads to ensure that resource/capability requirements are agreed; provides input to longer term recruitment/supply strategy (skills and/or tooling gap identification etc.); adapts to manage resource problems on project to achieve budgets.
• Ensures that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; seamlessly identifies and implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; strives to beat schedule and improve margin.
• Quickly and clearly raises resource concerns or any other project constraints risking value/success; proposes and manages solutions.
• Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule.
• Coordinates all engineering resources on the project; delegation of day-today tasking.
• Provides any input required for business and customer reporting; proposes improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represents the company on their project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Oversight of change, scoping the potential impact, risks, dependencies, benefits and costs. Working with stakeholders to achieve change agreements.
• Effectively resolves any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities); optimises business needs across all functions.
• Working with the resource stakeholders to support development of the team via tasking opportunities and knowledge sharing, resulting in growth, greater efficiency and resilience.
• Not necessarily a technical expert, but sufficiently knowledgeable of the Systems Engineering life cycle and sufficiently technically competent to manage technical teams to completion of work packages.

To deliver the required value and contribute towards the growth of the business a suitable candidate for this role shall have:

• Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, V and numerous development models (Iterative, Incremental etc)
• Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team of a minimum of 10 multi-discipline engineers.
• Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems.
• Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities
• Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition.
• Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence
• Experience engineering lifecycle tools and their use to manage the work, configuration management, traceability and support the generation of metrics
• Excellent, multi method and tool, Customer/Stakeholder engagement skills and communication techniques
• Experienced in creating work breakdown structure, with a value basis, where the realisation of the required artefacts achieves internal process and external contract commitments
• Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative
• Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all Life Cycle phases across one or more assigned projects
• Hands-on expertise in a number of the following areas: Command & Control Defence systems, sensors, communications, encryption, land/maritime/airborne capability
• Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry

Additional Role requirements

• Able to travel within UK
• Significant on-site presence to support classification of work and maximise team contribution
• Valid Driving license
• Holding SC and willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance.

Notice

Due to the nature of the programs we deliver for our customers, candidates may need to obtain the relevant security clearance or handle export-controlled material as defined by the role's requirements. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate level of security clearance for the role. Due to the nature of our work, you must be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. For more information, please visit the UKSV website.

Our Benefits

• Participation in an Annual Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Cover
• 25 days’ holiday (plus Bank Holidays) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• Pension Contribution
• 4 x Life Assurance Cover
• Flexible working hours with opportunity for a 1pm finish on a Friday
• Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, will writing and more
• Security Clearance Allowance – where relevant and subject to you holding the required security clearance

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