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At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Project Engineering Lead.
Due to growth of the business area, an increasing workload &development within the team, we have a requirement to fill the vacancy of Project Engineering Lead within our Precision Guidance IPT, part of the Sensors Business Area within Integrated Sensing and Protection.
Within this IPT, the projects are diverse and exciting. There is a wide portfolio of work from core products that have been in service for many years and will continue to be so, requiring support and development to enable this, alongside numerous forward looking developments, technology demonstrators & research projects that put us at the cutting edge of Precision Guidance technology. With customer intimacy and close collaboration with other organisations across the industry we work to achieve a market leading position in this field. Our products leverage our best in class Infra-Red detectors, designed & manufactured in house as well as expanding to other technologies such as microwave based guidance systems. With all of this, the opportunity to be involved as a Project Engineering Lead represents a chance to be at the heart of a diverse range of technologies & exciting projects across the full engineering lifecycle.
Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the total engineering activity undertaken on a project or portfolio of projects and so manage cross-disciplined engineering teams. The Project Engineering Lead has direct line management responsibilities over a small multi-disciplined team of engineers. The Project Engineering Lead is tasked to ensure that the engineering team delivers a solution that is compliant with the customer technical requirements; contractual requirements; and legislative requirements. Working closely with Project Managers, the Project Engineering Lead must effectively plan and manage the engineering effort within projects from a performance, schedule and cost perspective.
Reporting to a Project Engineering Manager, the Project Engineering Lead contributes to the monthly engineering governance cycle through preparation of engineering status reports. Project Engineering Leads build strong relationships with Engineering Functional Leads to ensure the resourcing plans for their projects are realistic and any issues arising are resolved swiftly. Project Engineering Leads play a key role in business winning activities, coordinating the collection of engineering costs, preparation of engineering plans and holding engineering bid reviews.
The role requires a candidate who is self-motivated, proactive and enthusiastic, with strong leadership and communication skills. The ability to foster and develop effective working relationships is key to ensure engineers perform to the levels required of the projects. A strong commercial and business awareness is also essential to ensure that the engineering effort can be managed in the correct context for each given project.
Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the technical management of multi-disciplined engineering teams across multiple projects. Working closely with Project Managers, they are responsible for delivery of the overall engineering output against time, cost and performance budgets.
Project Engineering Leads are responsible for line management of their own multi-disciplined team, which includes allocation of project tasks in conjunction with the wider PG engineering team objectives.
Project Engineering Leads are responsible for generating clear and relevant engineering plans, establishing key milestones and identifying risks, opportunities and interdependencies.
Project Engineering Leads are responsible for reviewing the current engineering positions on projects, and adapting plans as required to mitigate risks to either cost, schedule or performance budgets.
Project Engineering Leads are responsible for preparation and communication of monthly engineering status reports for each of their assigned projects into their line manager, the Project Engineering Manager.
Project Engineering Leads are responsible for the coordination of engineering input into bids as part of the business winning process.
This role sits on the multi-functional management team of the Precision Guidance business area, representing engineering on that team at weekly and monthly progress and reporting meetings.
Within this IPT, there are a lot of developments of Electronics Hardware and the Project Engineering Lead will need to work with a team of hardware engineers to plan and supervise this work as well as helping the team mitigate any issues and maintain clear and accurate reporting for their Project Engineering Manager.
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The following skills and experience are required:
Educated to a degree level in an engineering-related subject (essential)
Previous experience of managing and/or leading multi-disciplined engineering teams (essential)
Strong understanding and proven track record of engineering lifecycles and processes (essential)
A background in the development and a good appreciation of the typical lifecycle of Electronics hardware (essential)
A strong understanding and experience of electro-optics, infrared imaging technology and precision guidance technology (desirable)
Experience of working within the defence industry (desirable)
We are relentless about inclusion. We understand an inclusive environment is one that welcomes everyone as they are. We see diversity as a strength. We still have some way to go to achieving diverse teams across our whole business. We would like you to be part of our journey to creating that better balance and welcome applications from all individuals from all walks of life as we build a stronger company together.