Project Engineering Manager

Project Engineering Manager

Defence; Aerospace; Marine; Naval; Maritime; Electronics

Technical Leadership; Engineering Manager; Engineering Projects; Full lifecycle

Luton, option to WFH; Remote

£60,000 - £70,000 + excellent benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Engineering Manager to work within engineering management on various defence projects and products.

You will be a highly experienced engineering manager, accustomed with working on large and complex systems within the defence industry.

As a Project Engineering Manager your key accountabilities will include:

• Day-to-day management of multi-disciplined Engineering teams, ensuring that roles and tasks are clearly defined and understood.

• Setting of goals, appraisal of core staff and agreeing project specific training needs.

• Liaise closely with System Design Authority to ensure technical integrity of programmes.

• Establish and maintain good lines of communication across the Engineering IPT and upwards to the IPT lead

• Management of the Engineering technical quality, schedule and budget.

• Management of cost adherence to the programme budgets. Work Package cost management for project control and reporting.

• Technical point of contact and liaison point for key customer organisations.

• Technical interface and management of programme's contractors & sub-contractors.

• Configure and maintain performance measures and matrixes for the area.

Project Engineering Manager - Skills and Qualifications:

• Degree qualified or equivalent

• Experience of engineering team management in a challenging environment

• Good problem-solving ability

• Good schedule and budget control.

• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, across multiple sites/locations

• Strong leadership competency but also can demonstrate team-working skills.

• Knowledge of engineering lifecycle and business process