Aviation Delivery Manager (Engineering and Design) - London in West End of London

Due to continued growth within CEL, our in-house Engineering Services team, we are seeking to hire an Aviation Delivery Manager to head up the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across a number of project sites and frameworks within the London & South East regional area. They will work with Engineering Discipline Leads to shape value propositions and be accountable for the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across Costain's portfolio of Aviation projects within their area through appropriate deployment of people, processes and systems. This is an opportunity to play an integral role in driving Costain's growth and strategic objectives of being an engineering led business within the Aviation Sector. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement predominantly based in London typically 3 days a week with a flexible approach to remote working to promote well-being, with a requirement to occasionally work at multiple locations throughout the UK depending on contract needs.

Responsibilities

• Engineering pipeline and resource forecasting: Responsible for collaborating with the Discipline Managers and Aviation Sector teams to gain insight of the engineering services pipeline within their area and maximise opportunities for internal delivery of engineering services. Must accurately forecast future resource requirements across multiple disciplines to achieve successful delivery and inform recruitment to meet growing demand.
• Project Delivery & Progress Reporting: Responsible for leading the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across Aviation projects and contracts within their assigned area and frameworks, managing teams of Project Engineering Managers with individual project responsibility to ensure optimal operation of the Aviation engineering delivery teams. Will ensure scope and service requirements, budgets and programmes are clearly defined and adhered to. Will be responsible for monitoring progress against budget and programme and clear reporting of this to senior management, sectors and clients.
• Technical Governance & Quality: Must work with Engineering Discipline managers to ensure the delivery of technically compliant and quality-controlled designs which meet scope requirements, ensuring all the necessary technical and regulatory assurance activities have been undertaken across the program lifecycle. To input into the development, management and maintenance of corporate technical management systems, including digital integration. Expected to proactively assist in resolving complex technical and delivery issues where identified.
• Work Winning: Collaborate strategically with the Aviation Sector to forecast service demand and proactively identify early client opportunities, coordinating the in-house engineering contribution to develop best in class value propositions and winning bids. Must identify and monitor engineering budgets and resource requirements for tender activities and ensure compliance with all internal governance processes.
• Risk, Change & Continuous Improvement: Facilitate the capturing and clear communication of technical risks and opportunities to all stakeholders. Oversee the effective management of design change, applying a systematic challenge to minimise unnecessary scope variation. Act as a visible leader in developing a design delivery culture that emphasises ownership and accountability. Embed a structured approach to lessons learned and apply continuous improvement principles to all aspects of engineering services.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Essential: A background in managing the delivery of engineering services on complex projects across the programme lifecycle within the UK Aviation sector. Experience in successfully managing the delivery of complex engineering scopes to budget and programme, and effective change management. A background in managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams, responsible for managing workload, resource demand and skillsets. Significant engineering design experience within respective engineering discipline. Be an authority in multiple design and construction systems and process models (e.g. plan of work). Experienced technical manager capable of reviewing technical quality and compliance of design deliverables; understanding of key technical concepts across a range of engineering design disciplines (e.g. civil, mechanical, electrical). Experience setting up / running design, assurance and reporting process on large projects. Understanding of Aviation sector clients, challenges, opportunities and procurement / contract strategies.
• Desirable: Experience setting up, leading or operating other aspects of project engineering delivery such as design workflows, information management systems, quality controls.

Qualifications

• Essential: Degree qualification in a relevant engineering discipline. Chartered Engineer (ICE, IMechE, IStructE, IET, CIOB, CIHT, other).

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.

Our culture and values underpin everything we do. Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.