At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and manage a dynamic engineering team to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Company: Join Certain Advantage, a company dedicated to matching talent with opportunities.
- Benefits: Flexible working hours, career growth support, and a collaborative environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to work in a highly-regulated environment with excellent career progression.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the engineering sector while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in leading engineering teams and managing complex projects.
The predicted salary is between 75000 - 85000 £ per year.
You’ll be responsible for coordinating, managing and scaling a large off-site engineering delivery function.
What will you be doing?
- Take full ownership of end-to-end engineering support delivery, ensuring timely, high-quality, and cost-effective outcomes.
- Lead and grow a large, multi-disciplinary on-site team in line with demand.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, providing a consistent on-site presence and fostering a professional, value-driven approach.
- Support team expansion through recruitment, onboarding, and culture development to maintain cohesion.
- Ensure all engineering data, records, and documentation are accurate, controlled, and aligned with client requirements.
- Monitor performance, identify risks and opportunities early, and act to maintain delivery against KPIs.
- Drive continuous improvement to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and improve information management.
- Identify and develop new opportunities, scaling successful initiatives.
- Deliver against financial targets, including utilisation, budget control, and margin improvement.
A couple of things you should know:
- Experience leading engineering delivery, multi-disciplinary teams or large-scale technical services within highly-regulated environments.
- Ability to manage large operational teams, KPIs, and complex stakeholder relationships.
- Understanding of engineering project lifecycle management and workflows.
- Good background in risk and opportunity management, project accounting, work package management, resource and configuration management and scheduling.
During an interview, you may be asked about:
- Your experience in Defence or Industrial environments.
- Your ability to shape, expand and mature engineering support services.
Sounds like you? Apply now!!
Account Manager in Plymouth employer: Certain Advantage
At Certain Advantage, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. As an Account Manager in the South West, UK, you will benefit from extensive professional growth opportunities, a supportive team environment, and the chance to lead impactful engineering projects in a highly-regulated sector. Our commitment to employee development and well-being ensures that you can thrive both personally and professionally while making a meaningful contribution to our clients' success.