System Engineering Manager

The role is responsible for providing engineering leadership and managing concurrent engineering activities to ensure that all assigned projects and tasks are delivered to scope, cost, and schedule. This includes executing the engineering delivery of projects of varying size and complexity in accordance with established business, management, and technical processes. The position leads all project engineering activities and teams in alignment with ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 standards, ensuring the consistent application and continuous improvement of a systems-based approach. Responsibilities also include effective delegation, monitoring, and management of progress to achieve engineering objectives within agreed budgets, schedules, and governance requirements. In addition, the role assures and governs the implementation of engineering activities in compliance with approved plans and processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale.
• Leads, defines, delegates and monitors the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed cross the multi-discipline project team
• Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team, Supports the Program Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.
• Ensures that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; seamlessly identifies and implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; strives to beat schedule and improve margin.
• Quickly and clearly raises resource concerns or any other project constraints risking value/success; proposes and manages solutions.
• Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule.
• Provides any input required for business and customer reporting; proposes improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represents the company on their project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Oversight of change, scoping the potential impact, risks, dependencies, benefits and costs. Working with stakeholders to achieve change agreements.
• Effectively resolves any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities); optimises business needs across all functions.
• Working with the resource stakeholders to support development of the team via tasking opportunities and knowledge sharing, resulting in growth, greater efficiency and resilience.

Suitable Experience

• Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle.
• Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team.
• Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems.
• Confident 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 in a needs definition.
• Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence.
• Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative.
• Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all Life Cycle phases across one or more assigned projects.
• Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry.