At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical solutions from design to certification, ensuring compliance and quality.
- Company: Join a leading aerospace and defence company with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development opportunities, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to mentor and shape the future of cutting-edge military systems.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in military technology while leading dynamic teams.
- Qualifications: Degree in engineering or science, with experience in complex product design.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Responsibilities Owning the overall technical solution across the full lifecycle, including design, compliance, safety, integrity, and certification.
Acting as the delegated Design Authority and Company Technical Signatory for assigned products.
Leading technical engagement with customers to define solutions, supported by SMEs, and representing Leonardo with internal and external stakeholders.
Delivering solutions that meet end-user needs, working closely with development teams and the supply chain to understand operational use and requirements.
Ensuring compliance with performance, legislative and contractual requirements, with clear, traceable evidence strategies in place.
Managing technical trade-offs across performance, cost and schedule to deliver coherent, achievable solutions.
Providing technical leadership, including risk and opportunity management, and setting direction for requirements and verification strategies.
Communicating key issues, risks and opportunities to senior engineering leadership and contributing to strategic capability and cost improvement initiatives.
Leading and mentoring technical teams to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions.
Chairing Design Reviews to ensure robust governance, quality and independent assurance and adherence to company lifecycle and engineering processes.
Requirements A strong technical background with extensive experience in the design, development, qualification and certification of complex military products, including radar and EW systems.
Broad experience across Requirements, Verification, Qualification and Acceptance, including achieving Design Certification and Customer Acceptance.
Proven ability to manage Design Standards and Configuration Management and deliver innovative system-level solutions.
Develop compliant technical solutions within cost and schedule constraints lead effectively with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
Be a self-motivated leader and collaborative team player, able to operate with minimal direction and communicate effectively with SMEs and end users across diverse technical and cultural environments.
Knowledge of EW equipment use within customer operational environments, alongside awareness of training and software development principles.
Degree-qualified in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline, with Chartered Engineer status (or working towards) and Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) membership.
Strong analytical capability with proven technical problem-solving skills. #J-18808-Ljbffr
