Director of Network Delivery in Hampshire, Portsmouth

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Twice a month to Portsmouth. Regular travel to other sites in the UK wide. Occasionally internal travel may be required.

LOCATION: Portsmouth OR Stevenage (60% of your working week must be office based)

TYPE: Full time

Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping and much more.

• Work / Life Balance: 37 hour week, flexible working around core hours, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL. Employees may use this flexibility at their discretion, provided they fulfil their contractual working hours and meet business needs (such as urgent deadlines or client requirements).
• Health & Wellbeing: Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health/dental insurance/eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime pilates.
• Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption/shared parental/caregiving leave.
• Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity).

Are you a Head of Systems Design or Head of Systems Delivery looking for a new career? Passionate about Space and championing Engineering, to fulfil our promise to clients to be On Time, On Cost, On Quality (OTOCOQ)? Due to internal promotion, we are looking for a Head of Systems Design and Delivery. In this high visibility key role you will be responsible for a team of ~50 senior technical Engineering professionals (Chief Engineers, Lead Architects, Systems Integrators) based in Portsmouth, Stevenage and Newport.

Represent, harmonise and champion Engineering and to continue and nurture relationships between the business, project and production.

• Define and deploy a development plan for the technical solution with a strong Design-to-Value / Design-to-Cost approach, based on requirements, schedule and budget and Systems Engineering best practices.
• Identify and drive key engineering trade-off studies with support of the Design Authority organisation.
• Take the lead in quality assurance, regulatory compliance (i.e. export rating, licensing) and safety, as well as management and achievement of certification/evaluation of technical solutions, using the knowledge and services of Enablers (e.g. Product Security, Safety, Product Regulatory Compliance).

Passionate and genuinely believe in delivering on commitments, protecting projects integrity and ensuring projects stay on track, OTOCOQ with a strong customer delivery focus.

• Experience in promoting, implementing and monitoring the use of Engineering best practices (Model based Systems Engineering, Agile).
• Awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.
• Extensive experience in working directly with customers with a proven track record of successful delivery.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process - you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition under the Equality Act 2010 and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert).

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.