Portfolio Delivery Team Lead

Bolton

Job Title: Portfolio Delivery Team Lead

Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS).

• Company bonus:
  Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave:
  Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working:
  We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities:
  Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
• Healthcare Cash Plan:
  The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The Delivery Lead is responsible for the management of Portfolio engineering activities associated with the delivery of the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio, including management of technical risks, obsolescence and engineering commonality.

• A chance to use the knowledge and experience you have gained to help steer and shape the delivery of the MBDA UK portfolio of products.
• The opportunity to develop and implement new ways of working, building on past successes but with the freedom to innovate.
• Work with projects to improve the efficiency of Commonality, Modularity & Reuse and reduce hardships.
• Review predicted and measured benefits to ensure realism from an engineering point of view.
• Work with internal teams to ensure that programme plans for dependencies exist.
• Act as the point of contact between Functions, Equipment Teams, Centres of Excellence and the Portfolio as risks or issues arise.
• Ensure solutions for portfolio obsolescence removal do not affect the dependencies established.

• Significant experience in an engineering discipline, with a good understanding of product lifecycle including the design and development process for electro‑mechanical equipment.
• The ability to work with, influence, and challenge where required, including senior MOD and MBDA management.
• A flexible mind‑set, able to tackle problems and develop genuinely innovative solutions for design challenges.
• Ability to understand sophisticated technical problems, often with a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and inconsistency.
• Effectively manage your priorities when presented with issues from multiple projects.
• You are able to concisely summarise multi‑factual problems and influence, lead and empower teams positively.

We respect new perspectives and experiences, and we value our collaborative ways of working. We are committed to growing and supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their potential. MBDA is proud of our employee‑led networks, examples include:
Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more.

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process. We also welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements.