Sonobuoy Engineering Manager

Want to join a trusted and reputable company with a broad portfolio of capabilities across the Maritime domain?

Overview

Important: All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance, and as a minimum be living in the UK for 5 years.

Working: The role is office/hybrid based with occasional travel to other company sites in the UK. Office site presence, anticipated 2/3 days onsite, depending on project needs.

Want to work for a successful business, who develop advanced specialist systems to deliver warfighting edge in the modern maritime and underwater battlespace?

The company have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for successfully delivering engineering activities to time, cost and quality across all engineering aspects of the sonobuoys portfolio.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that solutions meet requirements and are fit for purpose.
• Support new product development, in -service support and products that are already in production.
• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers, ensuring high performance and collaboration.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet operational needs.

Experience needed:

• Ideally qualified to degree-level or equivalent experience in a Physics or Engineering based subject, such as; Electronics, Hardware, Computer Science, Software or Systems Engineering etc.
• Experience of managing teams of teams
• Experience of engineering estimation, with the ability to review, challenge and defend estimates
• Created Work Breakdown Structures and defined delivery strategies
• Experience of producing engineering plans with dependencies, assumptions, risk and opportunities identified, communicated and managed
• An understanding of the different design gates a project goes through, from bid to full scale production readiness review
• A background in either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, with an understanding of software and systems engineering
• Coaching and/or mentoring experience

Experience in the following would be desirable:

• Experience in the Defence / Aerospace or safety regulated environment would be advantageous
• Experience in the Naval / Maritime domain would be advantageous.