Project Chief Engineer

Responsibilities

• Owning the overall technical solution across the full lifecycle, including design, compliance, safety, integrity, and certification.
• Acting as the delegated Design Authority and Company Technical Signatory for assigned products.
• Leading technical engagement with customers to define solutions, supported by SMEs, and representing Leonardo with internal and external stakeholders.
• Delivering solutions that meet end-user needs, working closely with development teams and the supply chain to understand operational use and requirements.
• Ensuring compliance with performance, legislative and contractual requirements, with clear, traceable evidence strategies in place.
• Managing technical trade-offs across performance, cost and schedule to deliver coherent, achievable solutions.
• Providing technical leadership, including risk and opportunity management, and setting direction for requirements and verification strategies.
• Communicating key issues, risks and opportunities to senior engineering leadership and contributing to strategic capability and cost improvement initiatives.
• Leading and mentoring technical teams to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions.
• Chairing Design Reviews to ensure robust governance, quality and independent assurance and adherence to company lifecycle and engineering processes.

• A strong technical background with extensive experience in the design, development, qualification and certification of complex military products, including radar and EW systems.
• Broad experience across Requirements, Verification, Qualification and Acceptance, including achieving Design Certification and Customer Acceptance.
• Proven ability to manage Design Standards and Configuration Management and deliver innovative system-level solutions.
• Develop compliant technical solutions within cost and schedule constraints lead effectively with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Be a self-motivated leader and collaborative team player, able to operate with minimal direction and communicate effectively with SMEs and end users across diverse technical and cultural environments.
• Knowledge of EW equipment use within customer operational environments, alongside awareness of training and software development principles.
• Degree-qualified in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline, with Chartered Engineer status (or working towards) and Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) membership.
• Strong analytical capability with proven technical problem-solving skills.