Installation & Acceptance Manager

Primarily home-based but must be prepared to travel to support internal, customer and supplier meetings.

About us: At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do.

The role: The Installation & Acceptance Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing the process for integrating systems, operations and services within Project Delta. This project requires the managed integration and delivery of complex devices, consisting of hardware, software and courseware components, interacting with multiple stakeholders from suppliers to the customer and end-users within UK MOD and is key to the success of the integration activity. This will be achieved through developing and executing a holistic Integration Strategy and comprehensive Integration Plans, coordinating cross-organisation teams, managing risk and ensuring a smooth transition to achieve the desired business synergies and value realisation.

Main duties will include:

• Defining the Integration Strategy, including priorities, timelines, and milestones aligned with the overall project’s Integrated Management Schedule (IMS).
• Creating and executing comprehensive Integration Plans, ensuring clearly defined and agreed deliverables, timely delivery, adherence to budget, and management of risk and opportunities.
• Oversee the integration of the devices from early within the development life cycle through delivery to finally Hand Over, ensuring environmental and security requirements are considered and appropriately addressed with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as the project’s subject matter expert and point of contact on the integration, delivery and hand over of the devices to support project requirements.
• Ensure successful Hand Over through in depth understanding of the acceptance criteria and delivery of all required artefacts including but not limited to Transition to Service Plans, Operation Manuals, Training Guides etc.
• Ensure systems are in place to demand and manage the integration constraints ahead of fruition, including checks of accuracy and consistency.
• Form exceptional working relationships with all stakeholders including suppliers, invested Raytheon UK Teams and the UK MOD and its contractors to enable the most efficient possible integration and delivery of devices.
• Work closely with the Training Equipment Manager to ensure that all external requirements of training device teams, both current and future, are met.
• Work closely with the Information Assurance and Safety & Environmental Engineering Leads to ensure that all requirements of the devices, both current and future, are met.
• Work closely with the Head of Courseware and Media Development to ensure that all external requirements of the courseware development team, both current and future, are met.
• Work closely with the Configuration Management team to ensure that existing Raytheon UK and Project Delta processes are adhered to.
• Work closely with the project Security representatives to ensure compliance with existing regulations on handling and storage of protected materials.
• Provide regular reporting against developed metrics to ensure confidence in the integration activities and successful hand over to the customer and end-users.

Benefits and Work Culture:

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days.
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed.
• More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.