Systems Engineering Manager

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

Job Description

• Provision of engineering leadership and management of concurrent engineering to ensure that assigned projects and tasking are delivered to scope, cost and schedule.
  
  
• Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes in accordance with business, management and technical processes.
  
  
• Lead all project engineering activities and the team, aligned to ISO 15288 and ISO 24748 processes, defining and continuous implementation of a systems approach.
  
  
• Effectively delegate responsibilities, monitoring and managing progress to achieve the scope of the engineering to satisfaction of the budget, schedule and governance stakeholders.
  
  Key Responsibilities:
  
  
• Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale.
  
  
• Leads, defines, delegates and monitors the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed cross the multi-discipline project team
  
  
• Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team, Supports the Program Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.
  
  
• Proactively working with wider business stakeholders, especially governance, to ensure processes are followed/tailored agreements are implemented upon and maintained.
  
  
• Continuous realisation of resource and dependency needs to permit upskills, supply and recruitment; working with the discipline leads to ensure that resource/capability requirements are agreed; provides input to longer term recruitment/supply strategy (skills and/or tooling gap identification etc.); adapts to manage resource problems on project to achieve budgets.
  
  
• Ensures that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; seamlessly identifies and implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; strives to beat schedule and improve margin.
  
  
• Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule.
  
  
• Coordinates all engineering resources on the project; delegation of day-today tasking.
  
  
• Provides any input required for business and customer reporting; proposes improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represents the company on their project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
  
  
• Effectively resolves any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities); optimises business needs across all functions.
  
  
• Not necessarily a technical expert, but sufficiently knowledgeable of the Systems Engineering life cycle and sufficiently technically competent to manage technical teams to completion of work packages.
  
  To deliver the required value and contribute towards the growth of the business a suitable candidate for this role shall have:
  
  
• Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, V and numerous development models (Iterative, Incremental etc)
  
  
• Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team of a minimum of 10 multi-discipline engineers.
  
  
• Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems.
  
  
• Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities
  
  
• Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition.
  
  
• Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence.
  
  
• Experience engineering lifecycle tools and their use to manage the work, configuration management, traceability and support the generation of metrics.
  
  
• Excellent, multi method and tool, Customer/Stakeholder engagement skills and communication techniques
  
  
• Experienced in creating work breakdown structure, with a value basis, where the realisation of the required artefacts achieves internal process and external contract commitments.
  
  
• Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative.
  
  
• Ensure and assure the delivery of all agreed products throughout all Life Cycle phases across one or more assigned projects.
  
  
• Hands-on expertise in a number of the following areas: Command & Control Defence systems, sensors, communications, encryption, land/maritime/airborne capability
  
  
• Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry.
  
  Additional Role requirements
  
  
• Significant on-site presence to support classification of work and maximise team contribution
  
  
• Holding SC and willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance