Project Engineering Manager - Test Solutions

Leonardo has an exciting opportunity for a Project Engineering Manager to join the Test Engineering team, within the ISP sector, supporting three business areas: Comms and Force Protection, Mission Systems and Sensors. With a growing portfolio of development projects, this opportunity has become available.

You will join the test engineering team on a permanent basis to lead & coordinate the Test Solution Delivery activities. This role will lead the tasking of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver the projects. The Engineering Manager will provide the engineering leadership and management in collaboration with the Technical Lead, to identify, develop, deliver and support the technical solution.
 

As a Project Engineering Manager in Test Engineering, you will be responsible for development, maintenance and enhancements of test capability to meet the needs of the product line.

This includes, but is not limited to, owning, developing and executing the strategy required to enable the test equipment to meet the Sector long term Business Plan in line with the Product Maturity & Capability Roadmap, Production Needs and Support requirements.

Typical day to day tasks includes:

• →Initially required to establish and prioritise forward load requirements and expand on the current multi-discipline team of permanent staff and outsourced resource, as required, to translate requirements into test strategies, implementation plans and final delivered solutions.
• →Management of the day-to-day project tasks of a multi-disciplined engineering team, ensuring that roles within the teams are clearly defined
• →Create a positive working relationship with customers and partners, to deliver project capability
• →Establish and maintain good lines of communication internally across the Engineering IPT’s, with the IPT leads, Project Managers, functional heads
• →Work closely with the Design Authorities and Systems Design Authorities (Chief Engineers) ensuring they are fully informed on technical progress, technical risk and any mitigation strategies
• →Ensuring the design solutions meet the end user requirement, is reliable, fully documented and works within its designated environment
• →Ensure the design solution is compatible with the business area product road map
• →Control project configuration and change management to ensure design reuse is maximised.
• →Support the management of Suppliers and project Make or Buy decisions
• →Candidate concept solutions are captured, including the results of any trade off studies and end user engagement

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required:

• Degree qualified in a relevant Science / Technology / Engineering / Maths discipline or similar experience.
• Good knowledge of Test Solutions in a high tech environment, utilising common systems (where appropriate) to develop an end to end solution.
• Ability to produce clear concise engineering plans
• Good problem-solving ability.
• Good schedule and budget control.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Commercial awareness.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, across multiple sites.
• Strong leadership competency but also can demonstrate team-working skills.
• Knowledge of engineering lifecycle and business process.

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge that would be Desirable:

• Experience in the military domain
• Requirements elicitation and experience of projects involving software development
• Development and certification of military equipment
• New Product Introduction
• Experience of electro-optic or RF products
• Engineering or scientific degree qualification (or equivalent)

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting