Project Engineering Lead

Project Engineering Lead

A Project Engineering Lead is required to join the Export delivery team within a world leading Aerospace and Defence organisation. This engineering lead role will be split across contract delivery and business winning, providing engineering management, direction and leadership for a number of customers and end users.

Key Responsibility Areas:

+ Management of the Engineering technical quality, schedule and budget

+ Management of multi-disciplined Engineering teams, ensuring that roles within the teams are clearly defined

+ Establish and maintain good lines of communication across the Engineering IPT, to the IPT lead, functional heads and to the Customer engineering team

+ Management of Customer expectations in line with agreed solution

+ Control project configuration and change management to ensure design reuse is maximised.

+ Lead business winning opportunities from an engineering point of view within the IMS sector

+ Identifying technical risks and mitigation strategies

+ Support the management of Suppliers and project Make or Buy decisions as required

+ Candidate concept solutions are captured, including the results of any trade off studies and end user engagement

Skills and knowledge required:

+ Commercially aware

+ Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders

+ Knowledge of engineering lifecycle and business process.

+ Understanding of Electronic Warfare Operational Support

+ Understanding of systems, software and training development and ideally mission data