Programme Manager

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research. We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Company Overview: Teledyne Qioptiq designs and manufactures high-performance electro-optic products for demanding defence, aerospace and commercial applications across land, air, sea and space environments.

Role Overview: We are looking for a Programme Manager who can bring structure, pace, and sound judgement to technically complex programmes. You will operate at the centre of a cross-functional team, connecting customer needs, technical delivery, commercial commitments, operations and supply chain performance. You will own programme outcomes, build trusted relationships, and create the conditions for multi-disciplinary teams to deliver safely, predictably, and profitably.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead programmes across our New Product Introduction (NPI) lifecycle, from bid and requirements definition through design, development, qualification, production readiness, and transition to full-rate production.
• Create and maintain integrated plans, milestones, budgets, forecasts and resource assumptions, using evidence to drive priorities and decisions.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams spanning optical, mechanical, electronics, systems, test, manufacturing engineering, quality, procurement, operations, finance and commercial functions.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, opportunities and changes, developing practical mitigation, recovery and contingency plans.
• Manage customer and internal stakeholder interfaces, maintaining alignment on requirements, deliverables, contractual obligations and expectations.
• Support business winning activity, including bid planning, estimating, proposal development, review and handover into delivery.
• Manage commercial and financial performance, including budget control, cost impacts, change requests and progress against business objectives.
• Support a controlled transition into manufacture and business-as-usual operations, ensuring programme outputs are ready for repeatable delivery.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of programme management methods, tools, standards and team capability.

Personal Specification:

We value relevant capability and evidence of delivery. Your experience may have been built through programme/project management, engineering, operations, or another customer-facing technical environment.

Essential experience and capability:

• Experience leading projects or programmes involving complex products, technology, engineering or manufacturing.
• Ability to bring together cross-functional contributors, establish clear ownership and maintain momentum against agreed outcomes.
• Practical competence in planning, schedule management, cost control, risk and issue management, change control and status reporting.
• Confidence working with customers and senior stakeholders, including communicating difficult messages clearly and constructively.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality and contractual commitments interact.
• An organised, proactive and diligent approach, with the judgement to work through ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor detail to technical, operational and executive audiences.

Desirable experience:

• Experience in defence, aerospace, photonics, electro-optics, precision manufacturing, or another highly regulated sector.
• Experience of New Product Introduction, product development, technology development, or transfer into manufacture.
• Experience supporting tenders, bids, estimates, customer change requests or contract delivery.
• Working knowledge of production planning, MRP/ERP, procurement, inventory, operations, and supply chain management.
• Experience managing domestic and export customers or working across international teams and supply chains.
• A recognised project or programme management qualification, such as APM or PRINCE2, or equivalent demonstrable practice.
• A technical, engineering, science, business or project management qualification. Equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.