Engineering Project Manager

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Closing Date: 21/07/2026

• Lead the technical delivery of one or multiple work packages for Critical National Infrastructure in the Air Traffic Management domain. This encompasses a range of technologies, software applications, and hardware infrastructure used for managing and controlling air traffic, utilising advanced technologies such as virtualised platforms, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence. These systems handle tasks such as flight planning, communication, surveillance, navigation, managing Unmanned Air Systems, and weather information dissemination
• Co-ordinate the technical alignment and resource management for several work packages

• Apply systems engineering principles to define, plan and deliver the scope of activities within one or multiple work packages of a project, to achieve the required outcomes.
• Accountable for the quality and alignment of the outputs of assigned work packages
• Technical point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.
• Accountable to the senior engineering lead for the technical delivery of the work packages managed by the job holder and the work packages within their project(s)

• The job holder will lead the delivery of a combined volume of work packages of up to 10 FTEs pa (equivalent to up to £1m pa of internal labour) plus technical management of up to £0.5m of external capital spend
• Note that the figures above are per annum – over the duration of a Regulatory Period (5 years), this role has indirect control of project spend typically in the region of up to £10m

• The job holder will tailor and agree delivery processes to suit the complexity of the scope of work
• The job holder will challenge technical delivery plans for the scope of work to ensure that they are following agreed policies and processes,
• Provide assurance of the content of plans and work packages to project and programme managers and business stakeholders

• Responsible for managing and executing the scope of work, defining the activities for one or multiple work packages, which could constitute a project
• Ensure that the collection of work packages deliver a complete, coherent, sustainable and cost-effective solution to meet all stakeholder requirements
• Engage with resource managers to secure, and ensure early deconfliction of, the resource required to deliver the scope of work
• Deliver the activities defined in the work package(s) to Cost, Quality and Timescale targets, while collaborating across multiple delivery functions and subject matter experts (e.g. Safety, Supply Chain)
• Can build, own and update technical delivery plans while providing challenge and recommendations that allow for an effective and achievable plan to be deliverable, managing dependencies throughout, and identifying the resource required to delivery the plan
• Ensure appropriate technical governance is tailored, applied and adhered to for the scope of work
• Follows best practice within the NATS’ safety and service principles, adhering to engineering ethics
• Provides task management and direction to a team of engineers and subject matter experts
• Problem solves challenges that arise both within their scope of work and wider using prior experiences and networking to lead problems to a resolution.
• Work with 3rd Party suppliers to manage the execution of out-sourced activities to the agreed plan, pro-actively managing emerging risks
• Proactively identify and manage technical delivery risks related to the scope of work
• Identify “business as usual” activities from the project that require definition and handover to service operational teams
• Provide concise and regular updates on the scope of work to management through effective, tailored and confident communication methods
• Advocate of the NATS behaviours