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Date Posted:
2025-06-19Country:
United KingdomLocation:
GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NAPosition Role Type:
Unspecified

Installation & Acceptance Manager
Primarily home-based but must be prepared to travel to support internal, customer and supplier meetings.

About us:
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our business:
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Through advanced technology and our people's expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what's possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.

The role:
The Installation & Acceptance Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing the process for integrating systems, operations and services within Project Delta.
This project requires the managed integration and delivery of complex devices, consisting of hardware, software and courseware components, interacting with multiple stakeholders from suppliers (who may be within Raytheon UK, or external) to the customer and end-users within UK MOD and is key to the success of the integration activity.

This will be achieved through developing and executing a holistic Integration Strategy and comprehensive Integration Plans, coordinating cross-organisation teams, managing risk and ensuring a smooth transition to achieve the desired business synergies and value realisation.

The fulfilment of integration activities may not be straight-forward, due to Secure by Design approach, contractual restrictions and the challenges of differing levels of security classifications.

The incumbent must, therefore, understand integration management principles, Secure by Design principles as well as Configuration Management, must be able to work in an area of constant change, and be able to build relationships with the organisations supplying the devices, as well as internal and down-stream users.

Personnel assigned to this role possess the basic knowledge, skills and experience but the organization desires the following additional knowledge, skills or experience:

Essential:

• Background experience of working in a hardware development and/or ITEA, with more recent experience in a managerial or Project Management type role.
• A knowledge and understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle & ITIL functions, principles and processes.
• Proven track record in the implementation, delivery, handover and maintenance of complex IT systems in secure environments.
• Recent practical experience of successfully integrating complex COTS products.
• Experience implementing integration projects.
• Problem analysis and resolution in a secure environment.
• Experience working across all security classifications and delivery of solutions delivered through the Secure by design principles.
• Ability to quickly form effective working relationships with all stakeholders required.
• Configuration management processes and systems.

Desirable:

• Preferably have experience working either on a technical level or management level on large complex secure systems
• An understanding of the Defence system approach to training (DSAT) and/or the integration of training systems to deliver comprehensive training solutions.
• Managing projects, tasks and deliverables with protective markings or other special handling restrictions.
• Knowledge of or experience with Site Co-ordinating Installation Design Authority (SCIDA)
• Experience with Atlassian suite, working with Jira and Confluence.
• Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model.
• Awareness of NAFv4 and/or TOGAF.
• Experience of training devices.

Primarily home-based but must be prepared to travel to support internal and customer meetings and duties.
Main duties will include:

• Defining the Integration Strategy, including priorities, timelines, and milestones aligned with the overall project's Integrated Management Schedule (IMS).
• Creating and executing comprehensive Integration Plans, ensuring clearly defined and agreed deliverables, timely delivery, adherence to budget, and management of risk and opportunities.
• Oversee the integration of the devices from early within the development life cycle through delivery to finally Hand Over, ensuring environmental and security requirements (such as Secure by Design, facilities, security classification and handling) are consider and appropriately addressed with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as the project's subject matter expert and point of contact on the integration, delivery and hand over of the devices to support project requirements.
• Ensure successful Hand Over through in depth understanding of the acceptance criteria and delivery of all required artefacts including but not limited to Transition to Service Plans, Operation Manuals, Training Guides etc.
• Ensure systems are in place to demand and manage the integration constraints ahead of fruition, including checks of accuracy and consistency
• Form exceptional working relationships with all stakeholders including suppliers, invested Raytheon UK Teams and the UK MOD and its contractors (including stakeholders specific to both installation site and installation buildings) to enable the most efficient possible integration and delivery of devices.
• Work closely with the Training Equipment Manager to ensure that all external requirements of training device teams, both current and future, are met.
• Work closely with the Information Assurance and Safety & Environmental Engineering Leads to ensure that all requirements of the devices, both current and future, are met.
• Work closely with the Head of Courseware and Media Development to ensure that all external requirements of the courseware development team, both current and future, are met.
• Work closely with the Configuration Management team to ensure that existing Raytheon UK and Project Delta processes are adhered to.
• Work closely with the project Security representatives (physical and electronic) to ensure compliance with existing regulations on handling and storage of protected materials.
• Provide regular reporting against developed metrics to ensure confidence in the integration activities and successful hand over to the customer and end-users

Should you require any adjustments to support you in the recruitment process please discuss with your recruiter.

Benefits and Work Culture
Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTX
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We're investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

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