At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead complex engineering programmes and ensure quality delivery across multidisciplinary teams.
- Company: Join a mission-driven company focused on delivering critical solutions with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and opportunities for career growth.
- Other info: Work in a regulated environment with exciting challenges in defence, aerospace, and more.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving innovative engineering projects in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in engineering delivery and project management, with strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 58950 - 72050 £ per year.
Overview
As Engineering Delivery Manager you will lead complex engineering programmes, ensuring on-time, on-cost, and quality delivery.
You bridge engineering teams and programme leadership, owning planning and performance across multidisciplinary groups.
You’ll drive integrated plans, lifecycle activities, and readiness for integration and verification, shaping delivery across hardware, software, and systems.
This role anchors SII UK’s mission to deliver mission-critical solutions with a collaborative, learning-focused culture.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of engineering scope to cost, schedule, performance, and quality targets
- Define and manage engineering work packages with scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria
- Develop and maintain integrated engineering plans with dependencies and cross-discipline coordination
- Lead engineering delivery across requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, and qualification
- Coordinate and lead design reviews, technical reviews, and lifecycle gates
- Ensure delivery of artefacts including Engineering Management Plans, review docs, and lifecycle evidence
- Lead integration planning and execution across systems, software, and hardware domains
- Monitor delivery performance using engineering metrics and drive corrective actions
- Identify and manage risks, issues, and delivery dependencies
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholder engagement; report to programme and senior stakeholders
- Support bid and proposal activities with engineering planning and cost estimation
- Key requirements
- Proven experience in engineering delivery, project management, or work package management within complex programmes
- Hands-on engineering experience in electronics, hardware, systems or firmware
- Strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle and integration challenges
- Experience managing cost, schedule, and delivery performance
- Experience using planning and control tools (MS Project, Primavera, EVM tools)
- Background in leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Experience in integration planning and execution with dependencies and readiness for integration
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience in regulated or safety-critical environments (defence, aerospace, rail, nuclear)
- stakeholder management
- communication
- leadership
- MS Project
- Primavera
- EVM tools
Engineering Delivery Manager in Templecombe employer: SII Group
SII Group is an exceptional employer for a Test and Means Engineer, offering a dynamic work environment that prioritises innovation and collaboration. With a strong commitment to employee growth, competitive benefits including private medical insurance and flexible working arrangements, and a culture built on trust and transparency, SII Group empowers its engineers to thrive in high-reliability sectors like Aerospace and Defence. Join us in a role where your contributions are valued, and be part of a team dedicated to continuous improvement and excellence.
