Project Engineering Manager

Your Impact At Leonardo, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Engineering Manager (PEM) to join our team within the Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3) line of business. CS3 operates across the UK, providing innovative and invaluable support solutions to our customers in the Land, Sea and Air domains. We help to ensure the availability of front-line capability wherever and whenever required for military defence and civil customers.

This role will support various areas within CS3 as required by the business needs including but not limited to Service Delivery, and Product and Maintenance Repair Operations (P&MRO). As a PEM you will lead and manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team controlling, reporting and supporting on a number of different projects. You will be critical to our success and responsible for creating a supportive environment that motivates our engineering teams.

Be the Customer facing representative for engineering delivery both internal customers and external customers

Plan, lead, monitor, adapt, and report on our engineering activities to make our support solution delivery successful and ensure the full range of in-service technical elements including maintenance, repair, software, hardware, processes and upgrades for all contracts and customers are addressed and managed

Plan and monitor engineering resource expenditure to ensure that resources are available and utilised within budget and in the most cost-effective manner

Responsible for reporting engineering performance both internally and externally, including Summary of overall performance of contracts/services Engineering Milestone status and adherence

Manage Key Technical Issues/Problems/Resolution

Manage Engineering Risk and Opportunity Identification of opportunities to optimise the current business, or expand the business areas, through project scope increases or peripheral work streams

Maintain project compliance with the company policies and procedures, including life cycle management

Responsible for maintaining a positive working relationship across all internal and external stakeholders, and achieve Customer and Partner relationships and satisfaction through an understanding of their needs and drivers

Mentor and manage the performance and development of the engineering team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the team

Identification and implementation of product, process and service improvements - with the focus on cost, performance and Customer/Partner satisfaction

Deliver on commitments made to both internal and external Customers and Partners.

Provide engineering solutions and estimates to current and future bid and proposal activities, including support to the design of new or improved support solutions to secure new business

Proven leadership skills and experience in managing and motivating multi-disciplined and geographically dispersed teams.

Proven communication & negotiation skills at all internal and external levels

Knowledge and operation of multi-contractual support environment.

Demonstrated ability to work in multi company collaborations or partnered working environments and building strong trusted relationships

Strong Engineering background with significant experience in development, production and support activities.

Experience in certification and release of military equipment.

Substantial analytical and problem-solving skills

Self‑motivated leader and team player capable of working with minimum direction.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, proven ability to build trust and respect at different levels with international partners.

Knowledge of general engineering…