Programme Engineering Manager in Livingston

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.

About the role:

We’re searching for an outstanding, hands-on Programme Engineering Manager with depth of experience in mission-critical product development, qualification and production. The successful individual will work within our Power and Control business. This is a key role with accountability for delivery of daily, weekly and monthly Engineering deliverables within quality, schedule and cost constraints. Planning, driving, tracking, supporting and reporting of multi-disciplinary Engineering activities will form the core basis of this role, as will effective and efficient problem solving, drawing upon your skills and experience from similar programmes.

As a Programme Engineering Manager, you will be acting in a Technical Project Manager capacity, sitting within—and with accountability for—the Engineering team and representing the Engineering team to the Programme.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience leading and managing mission-critical electronic product design, qualification and certification programmes to exacting customer and industry standards.
• Fast learner, with the ability to hit the ground running and make a positive impact quickly.
• Experience of transition of products to manufacture and manufacturing support.
• Have highly developed written and oral communication skills with a proven track record in skilful navigation of senior stakeholders across business and industry.
• A track record of strong engineering leadership, of delivering through others in a matrix organisation, a structured approach to problem solving.
• Highly dependable, autonomous, resilient and results oriented.

Responsibilities

• Planning of Engineering work packages; use your experience leading product development programmes to shape logic that effectively manages risk and pushes the programme forward, validate and challenge assumptions and estimates, ensure resources are loaded effectively, and embody plans into Microsoft Project.
• Develop and use visual management techniques to identify, prioritise, track and drive the daily and weekly execution rhythm of the programme, decomposing work packages from the IMS into actionable tasks.
• Progress reporting to the Programme, Business and Raytheon UK Leadership Team on a recurring basis.
• Support Engineers in the achievement of their tasks, connecting them with, and interfacing with other functions within the programme team, on their behalf.
• Close liaison with Programme Design Authority and Chief Engineer to ensure technical integrity of work products.
• Risk and Change Management for all Engineering deliverables, including effective monitoring and mitigation.
• “Sleeves rolled up” technical problem solving in the development and manufacturing domains, ensuring both corrective and preventive actions are delivered to both resolve issues and prevent recurrence.
• Motivate and coach Engineering team members to success, demonstrating and communicating technical expectations for execution, accountability and execution discipline.
• Mentoring engineers for technical leadership, technical leads and IPT leaders.

Benefits and Work Culture

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr).
• 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, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role).
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade).

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 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.