Systems Engineering Manager

Overview

Company:
Ultra Intelligence & Communications Cyber (UK) Business Powering Decision. Join the team redefining defense technology. From engineering systems that save lives to leading programs that change the battlefield—find your place in the future of defense.

• 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 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.

• Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale.
• Lead, define, delegate and monitor the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed across the multi‑discipline project team.
• Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team.
• Support the Program Management team in planning and scheduling of their project; propose optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.
• Proactively work with wider business stakeholders, especially governance, to ensure processes are followed / tailored agreements are implemented upon and maintained.
• Continuously realise resource and dependency needs to permit upskills, supply and recruitment; work with discipline leads to ensure that resource/capability requirements are agreed; provide input to longer‑term recruitment/supply strategy; adapt to manage resource problems on project to achieve budgets.
• Ensure that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; seamlessly identify and implement solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; strive to beat schedule and improve margin.
• Quickly and clearly raise resource concerns or any other project constraints risking value/success; propose and manage solutions.
• Articulate and quantify technical risks on the project; actively manage their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule.
• Coordinate all engineering resources on the project; delegate day‑to‑day tasking.
• Provide any input required for business and customer reporting; propose improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represent the company on their project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Oversee change, scoping the potential impact, risks, dependencies, benefits and costs. Work with stakeholders to achieve change agreements.
• Effectively resolve any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities); optimise business needs across all functions.
• Work with resource stakeholders to support development of the team via tasking opportunities and knowledge sharing, resulting in growth, greater efficiency and resilience.

• Not necessarily a technical expert, but sufficiently knowledgeable of the Systems Engineering life cycle and sufficiently technically competent to manage technical teams to completion of work packages.
• 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.
• Confidence 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…