Engineering Product Delivery

• Engineering Product/Portfolio Delivery Lead
• Hybrid working (2-3 days per week on-site)

Security Clearance: British citizen or Dual UK national with British citizenship, able to meet security clearance requirements (BPSS as a minimum).

About the role

We're looking for an experienced engineer who wants to step into a broader, business-facing delivery role, helping shape how complex products are developed, reused and supported across a multi-project portfolio.

You'll be involved across the full product lifecycle, from early concept and design through to production and in-service support, making sure portfolio decisions remain realistic from an engineering point of view.

This isn't a pure project or portfolio management position.

It will suit someone with a strong design/development background who can manage packages of work, understand the technical detail, and influence stakeholders to deliver Commonality, Modularity & Reuse (CMR), cost savings and schedule benefits.

You'll work at the intersection of engineering, operations and commercial outcomes, using your technical judgement to shape how the portfolio delivers value.

• What you'll be doing
• Leading engineering delivery activities across a portfolio of complex electro-mechanical products, focusing on technical risk, obsolescence and engineering commonality.
• Working with project teams to embed CMR principles, ensuring reuse of designs is effective, secure and commercially sensible.
• Reviewing predicted and measured benefits to ensure they are realistic from an engineering perspective, and challenging assumptions where needed.
• Acting as a key point of contact between Functions, Equipment Teams and Centres of Excellence, coordinating responses when risks or issues arise and ensuring programme plans for dependencies exist and are maintained.
• Ensuring solutions for obsolescence removal do not negatively affect established dependencies or downstream products and platforms.
• Supporting supply chain and commercial discussions by understanding how engineering decisions impact cost, schedule, exportability and operational performance for the customer.
• Driving continuous improvement and new ways of working around commonality, modularity, reuse and obsolescence, reducing hardships for delivery teams.
• Providing clear, concise summaries of multi-faceted problems and leading small teams (c.5-6 people) to agreed outcomes through positive influence and empowerment.

What we're looking for

• Significant experience in an engineering discipline, with solid understanding of the full product lifecycle and the design/development process for complex electro-mechanical equipment.
• Background in sectors such as aerospace, automotive, rail, defence or similar complex product environments.
• Proven ability to manage packages of work, prioritise across multiple projects, and keep stakeholders aligned without losing technical integrity.
• Strong stakeholder skills – able to work with, influence and, when necessary, challenge senior management and customer representatives.
• Flexible, solutions-focused mindset, capable of tackling sophisticated technical problems with a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and inconsistency.
• Evidence of "engineering thinking": asking the right questions, spotting common issues across products, and balancing reuse, security, cost and performance.
• Experience leading through influence, setting direction, empowering teams and improving how complex, multi-project problems are tackled, even without formal line management.
• Why this role might suit you

This is a great opportunity for a design/development engineer who has achieved success in hands-on engineering and now wants to move towards the business side of engineering – portfolio delivery, financial efficiencies and strategic decision-making.

You'll gain visibility of a broad product portfolio, be trusted to influence how products are reused and evolved, and have a clear growth path towards future head-of or manager roles as you shape new ways of working.

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