Engineering Delivery Manager - Naval Systems in Hastings

The Engineering Delivery Manager role is an Engineering Leadership Team role responsible for enabling and ensuring successful delivery of a portfolio of engineering bids and development projects against agreed scope, schedule, quality and budget targets. For this role, the portfolio will typically be projects delivering solutions onto the Naval Helicopter platforms and/or providing Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capabilities. This role acts as the bridge between engineering teams, project management, and stakeholders, ensuring alignment on priorities, resource allocation, and quality standards. The role holder will also be a line manager within the Engineering functional organisation.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the allocated portfolio of engineering projects, working with the assigned Lead Engineers to ensure milestones are met and risks are managed proactively.
• Ensure monthly Engineering Status Reviews are held, supported by objective and subjective data to understand execution status, and to identify project delivery risks and issues.
• Escalate critical issues promptly and lead resolution efforts, including risk mitigation strategies.
• Communicate progress clearly to senior leadership and customers.
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards, safety and certification requirements.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans, schedules, and resource forecasts.
• Balance workload across teams and manage capacity constraints.
• Own and deliver assigned actions in support of defined Engineering Capability & Capacity development plans.
• Act as a line manager within the Engineering Functional organisation.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable & significant experience in successful leadership and delivery of complex development projects/programs delivering military/avionics products into service (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrable strong understanding of the challenges associated with leading development of multi-discipline solutions (e.g. Systems, Hardware, Software, Firmware, Mechanical etc).
• A good understanding of the development engineering considerations relevant to Avionics/Airborne systems and/or ASW solutions.
• Demonstrable experience leading technical/engineering engagements with customers and suppliers.
• Demonstrable experience in leading and developing team members, ideally with experience of mentoring and coaching for performance.
• Experience in identifying, defining and delivering continuous improvements is desirable.
• Professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng or equivalent) is desirable, but not essential. We actively support employees in attaining CEng status.
• Typically required degree level education, or staff and/or technical project/process management experience, or equivalent.
• Experience working with or familiarity with AI/ML models is preferred.

Benefits

• A compressed nine-day fortnight and compressed hours - which means every other Friday off.
• A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews – supporting and valuing your progression within the Company.
• A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded with flexible benefits.
• Salary ranges from £65,000 to £90,000 dependant on experience, plus flexible benefits package.

Work Environment

We are open to this role being spent with time working from home and in the office (hybrid - typically 3 days working in office) on a weekly basis or fully in our offices.

Equal Opportunities

We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace - inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we welcome you to join our inclusive team!

Disability

We are a Disability Confident Employer, as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please email disabilityconfident@gd-ms.uk if you would like your application to be considered under the DC Scheme.

Security Clearance

All successful/appointed applicants must be able to obtain a level of UK Security clearance that is appropriate for the role and undertake suitable Right to work checks.