Systems Engineering Manager - Programmes

Company

Ultra Intelligence & Communications Cyber (UK) – Business Powering Decision. Join the team redefining defense technology.

The Ultra Engineering function manages a portfolio of specialist capabilities, generating highly differentiated solutions and products by applying electronic, mechanical, and software technologies in demanding and critical environments to meet customer needs. The Project/Systems Engineering function provides expertise to projects through the bid and full development lifecycle, ensuring project and statutory requirements are met and improving systems design effectiveness.

• Responsible for executing the engineering delivery of a programme/numerous projects of a variety of sizes.
• Supports the Programme Management team in the planning and scheduling of their programme/projects; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.
• Identifies resource needs in good time for introduction to the programme/projects; works with discipline leads at programme and project levels to ensure that resource requirements are generally always met; provides input to longer‑term recruitment strategy (skills gap identification etc.); adapts to manage resource problems on programme/projects.
• Ensures that engineering artefacts for their programme/projects are delivered to budget and schedule; strives to beat schedule and deliver improved margin.
• Quickly and clearly raises resource concerns or any other impediments to programme/projects success; proposes and manages solutions to those; requires only limited support.
• Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to programme/projects.
• Is responsible for the engineering budget on the programme/projects and both monitors and forecasts costs to completion; seamlessly implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; requires only limited support.
• Coordinates all engineering resources on the programme/projects; performs day‑to‑day tasking.
• Provides any input required for business and customer reporting; proposes improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represents the company on their programme/projects with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Ensures that all engineering work carried out on the programme/projects is pre‑authorised; proposes solutions that are cheaper/quicker than the obvious.
• Proposes improvements and drives innovation to increase programme/projects margin.
• Effectively resolves any concerns with other functions (e.g. production engineering, test systems); optimises business needs across all functions.
• Manages security of information as defined in the Security manual.

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or suitable Defence/Aerospace industry experience.
• Significant experience and a full understanding of Systems Engineering, the lifecycle, System of Systems principles, capability delivery, various development models and associated processes.
• Significant experience of developing high‑quality requirements and establishing a fully compliant capability/solution.
• Attained experience in a product line/capability‑based approach supporting a capability framework/family of products, quantifying the common and explicit aspects and managing the associated dynamics of all.
• Demonstrable experience/vast understanding of implementing the full Engineering lifecycle as per the applicable ISO/IEEE/IEC standards/fundamental practices/principles and processes.
• Technical and line‑management experience of a team of systems engineers across a programme/set of projects.
• Experience in writing high‑quality technical documentation and the formal technical review of such material.
• Substantial knowledge of System Engineering practices, methodologies, processes, techniques and technology trends and use of appropriate tools.
• Previous experience of hands‑on capability development of hardware, software or firmware embedded solutions.

• INCOSE recognition.
• ASEP/CSEP/ESEP.
• Experience working as a technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) and developing new areas…