Project Delivery Lead (DO178) in Rochester

Expleo is seeking an experienced Project Delivery Lead to direct the successful delivery of a time-critical software assurance uplift programme transitioning an existing software baseline from DAL D to DAL A compliance.

The role is responsible for overall programme execution, ensuring delivery against contractual milestones, assurance evidence schedules, cost targets, quality objectives, and customer expectations.

Working at the interface between engineering teams, assurance specialists, customer stakeholders and programme management, the Project Delivery Lead will provide leadership, governance and control across all delivery activities, ensuring risks are actively managed and certification objectives remain on track.

This role is based full-time on-site , working directly alongside customer engineering and assurance teams throughout programme execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a complex DAL D to DAL A software assurance programme.
• Develop and maintain integrated programme plans, schedules, dependencies and delivery roadmaps.
• Manage delivery against agreed milestones, contractual commitments and assurance evidence submissions.
• Own programme RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies).
• Lead programme governance forums, delivery reviews and customer reporting activities.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering, software assurance, verification and quality teams.
• Monitor programme performance against schedule, cost, resource and quality metrics.
• Manage change requests, scope evolution and re-baselining activities where required.
• Drive issue resolution and escalation management across internal and customer stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery readiness of engineering environments, toolchains, processes and supporting infrastructure.
• Maintain close engagement with customer representatives, technical authorities and programme leadership.
• Support commercial management activities including forecasting, resource planning and delivery assumptions.
• Ensure compliance with aerospace and defence governance requirements throughout programme execution.
• Promote a strong delivery culture centred on predictability, quality, accountability and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline.
• Recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, PMP or equivalent is desirable.
• Professional registration or membership of a relevant engineering institution is advantageous.

Essential Skills

• Proven delivery leadership of complex engineering or software development programmes.
• Strong programme planning, scheduling and dependency management capability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and customer-facing communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering teams across multiple workstreams.
• Commercial awareness including resource planning, cost management and change control.
• Strong reporting, presentation and executive briefing capabilities.
• Ability to make decisions and maintain programme momentum under schedule pressure.

Experience

• Knowledge of DO-178 software assurance processes and objectives.
• Understanding of airborne software certification and Design Assurance Levels (DALs).
• Experience supporting software assurance uplift or certification transition programmes.
• Aerospace, defence, marine or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycles, verification activities and configuration management.
• Experience working within customer sites and integrated delivery teams.
• Knowledge of systems engineering, quality assurance and compliance frameworks.
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Demonstrable experience delivering complex engineering work packages with fixed external milestones and customer-facing governance.
• Proven track record of managing programmes involving multiple technical disciplines and external stakeholders.
• Experience leading delivery within regulated, safety-critical or mission-critical environments.
• Experience managing programme risks, dependencies and resource constraints to achieve delivery objectives.
• Experience supporting large-scale engineering transformation, assurance or compliance programmes is highly desirable.
• Strong RAID management and governance experience.
• Experience managing delivery performance against fixed customer milestones.
• Experience operating within regulated or safety-critical engineering environments.
• What Do I Need Before I Apply
• This role requires regular on-site presence at the customer facility.

Due to programme requirements and stakeholder engagement activities, candidates should expect the majority of work to be undertaken on-site.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
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