Principal Through Life Engineer vacancy in Greenford (012jc)

Our Client has an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer seeking a new challenge. You will be responsible for supporting the Company’s products in service, ensuring their customers are able to achieve mission success 24/7/365, anywhere in the world.

You will be the primary technical point of contact for their In Service Torpedo Defence Systems, responsible for leading a project team that provides advice and expertise on the resolution of technical issues to their customers. You and your team will put in place procedures that ensure Company equipment remains safe and suitable for continued service through its planned lifetime, working closely alongside both the design and field services teams.
No two days at the Company are the same, and you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge base within the underwater warfare domain, and grow your career in a fast paced, rapidly expanding, area of the defence sector.

Key Responsibilities
Leading the engineering office for our Client’s In Service Torpedo Defence Systems, you will be responsible for:
• Providing a proactive response to emerging technical issues, including customer fault reports and technical queries
• Coordinating the project engineering team to develop a solution that is technically and commercially acceptable
• Enacting programmes of inspection and preventative maintenance
• Ensuring that customer equipment remains safe and suitable for continued service
• Seeking opportunities to improve the in-service delivery performance of their Torpedo Defence Systems
• Coordinating and cooperating with the field support team to conduct ship surveys and commission equipment
• Implementing change requests to documentation
• Highlighting resource conflict or constraints to engineering management
• Producing estimates for new engineering work (e.g. redesign) and planning the work.

Skills, Qualification and Experience
A reliable and trustworthy individual, with a logical approach, you will have:
• A relevant Bachelor’s or higher degree, or equal professional experience.
• Significant experience as a senior engineer within the In-Service phase of the lifecycle
• Provided leadership, and worked ‘hands on,’ during integration, testing and system commissioning
• Demonstrated the ability to plan and execute support tasks on complex projects
• Shown the ability to work under tight time constraints, in challenging contexts
• A background working with maritime equipment. An understanding of underwater warfare systems would be a bonus.
• Demonstrable experience in communicating complicated topics clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences

Personal Attributes
A detail-oriented problem solver, with a passion for supporting the customer, you will:
• Thrive under pressure and drive performance to meet tight deadlines
• Possess excellent organisational and management skills
• Be able to define problem spaces, gather data to establish the facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of your work
• Cooperate well with others to achieve outstanding outcomes
• Seek and give constructive feedback, and reflect on performance, to nurture potential within the team
• Have a full driving license. This role is office-based with regular travel to customer sites (primarily Portsmouth).
• Be eligible for security clearance to at least Security Check (SC) level with no caveats. This role is only open to UK sole nationals due to the security restrictions of the projects involved.

Benefits
In return the Company offers a competitive salary, bonus scheme based on company profit/cash targets, 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional 5 days, a flexible Company benefits scheme you can tailor to suit your needs, competitive Pension scheme with Life Assurance, flexible start/finish times, a confidential Employee Support Helpline, free car parking