Overview
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Job Description
Your Impact
Reporting into the Head of Engineering Projects (HoEP), Typhoon Radar and collaborating closely with the Chief Engineer and Programme Manager, you will lead the engineering delivery for the Typhoon MSCAN Radar product area, ensuring that all engineering activities are planned, resourced, executed and delivered to schedule, within budgeted cost and following process for effective life cycle management and quality.
The Typhoon MSCAN Radar is the primary sensor for the Eurofighter Typhoon platform and a critical element of UK, partner and customer nations’ air superiority capability. Continuous development of this product is key to supporting existing operations and increasing the capabilities of the Eurofighter platform for decades to come.
This role is a unique opportunity to be a key part of delivering world-class capability in an increasingly important product domain. This role is a significant lead role within the Typhoon Radar sector, part of the RATS (Radar and Advanced Targeting) line of business in Edinburgh.
Responsibilities
- Product development milestones and deliverables
- Deliverables required to support product certification as defined by the Chief Engineer
- Product lifecycle management reviews and deliverables
- Business winning requirements including bids and proposals
- Technology development
- Continuous improvement/cost reduction
- Line manager for the PELs (Project Engineering Leads) within the product area
- Accountable for all Engineering execution through the engineering team
- Responsible for ensuring that the IBM engineering labour demand is accurate and identifies future needs
- Accountable for Engineering metadata, milestone data and forward load data in SAP
- Responsible for internal project reporting to Programme Manager and HoEP
- Encourage the engineering team to seek efficiency and effectiveness opportunities to improve and reward performance
- Managing engineering priorities and conflicts within the product area
- Accountable for life cycle management process being followed appropriately for the product area
- Accountable for Engineering risks across MSCAN Development projects being assessed, understood and mitigated
- Accountable for workplace and product safety processes being followed across all activities and product deliverables
- Ensuring that work products and designs meet quality and performance standards as agreed with the Chief Engineer
What You'll Bring
- Extensive demonstrated experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Demonstrated experience in managing engineering teams across a wide range of product life cycle stages (requirements, concepts, design, qualification & support)
- Broad knowledge and experience of Engineering product development process including safety and product verification
- Demonstrated experience and personal effectiveness in collaborating with other business functions
- Demonstrated experience and excellence in people-management and team-leadership
- Understanding and demonstrated experience of formal problem-solving techniques
- Demonstrated experience and personal effectiveness in working with external customers
- Proven ability to adapt to changing circumstances and requirements
- Either a first-degree STEM qualification or equivalent as recognised by professional accreditation scheme
It Would Be Great If You Had
- Domain knowledge in radar systems
- Experience of working effectively with UK and international partners
- Knowledge of working with Secret classified data
- Experience as an independent reviewer or assessor for Design Reviews
Security Clearance
This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, including eligibility for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting
Location and Contract
Primary Location: GB - Edinburgh
Contract Type: Permanent
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