Systems Engineering Manager

Systems Engineering Manager role within the defence sector working for one of the UK’s leading businesses within cryptography and data security!

We are looking for someone with a systems engineering background who has moved into an engineering management role of a multi-disciplined team of engineers, delivering complex, technical engineering projects.

This role comes with a great benefits package including:

• 10% annual bonus
• £5,000 clearance allowance
• 9-day fortnight and flexible working
• Couples’ private medical insurance
• 6-months full pay mat-leave, and 1-month full pay pat-leave
• Wealth of training and career development opportunities into a Head of Discipline or Chief Engineer role

We are looking for candidates with experience of:

• Provision of engineering leadership and management of concurrent engineering to ensure that assigned projects and tasking are delivered to scope, cost and schedule.
• Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes in accordance with business, management and technical processes.
• Lead all project engineering activities and the team, aligned to ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 processes, defining and continuous implementation of a systems approach.
• Effectively delegate responsibilities, monitoring and managing progress to achieve the scope of the engineering to satisfaction of the budget, schedule and governance stakeholders.
• Assure and govern the implementation and application of engineering in accordance with the agreed plans and processes.

Key Experience Required:

• Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, V and numerous development models (Iterative, Incremental etc)
• Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team of a minimum of 10 multi-discipline engineers.
• Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems.
• Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities
• Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition.
• Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence.
• Experience engineering lifecycle tools and their use to manage the work, configuration management, traceability and support the generation of metrics.
• Excellent, multi method and tool, Customer/Stakeholder engagement skills and communication techniques
• Experienced in creating work breakdown structure, with a value basis, where the realisation of the required artefacts achieves internal process and external contract commitments.
• Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative.
• Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all Life Cycle phases across one or more assigned projects.
• Hands-on expertise in a number of the following areas: Command & Control Defence systems, sensors, communications, encryption, land/maritime/airborne capability
• Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry.

All candidates need to be eligible and happy to undergo DV Clearance.