Engineering Project Lead vacancy in Greenford or Gloucester (091jc)

Our Client’s Company is transforming. Their mission is to innovate today for a safer tomorrow. They are investigators, problem solvers, brilliant thinkers, relentless explorers.

They provide innovative, mission-specific, bespoke technological solutions to their customers’ most complex problems. They provide systems for the maritime, C4ISTAR-EW (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, acquisition and reconnaissance – electronic warfare), military and commercial aerospace, nuclear, and industrial sensors markets. With 4,000 employees, they span the globe and are listed on the London Stock Exchange

About the department:
Our Client’s engineers work on the most difficult cybersecurity challenges in order to protect their national security and critical infrastructure; they strive to protect what matters. It’s why they come to work. It’s what they are good at. They pride themselves on providing state of the art development tools, an excellent working environment and career development opportunities.

Location:
Can be based at Greenford or Gloucester

Job purpose:
To lead a multi-disciplinary development team, delivering research, development and production projects.

Key responsibilities:
• Manage all aspects of one or more research and development projects or the development of one or more complex electronic products.
• Provide technical direction and exert technical influence, in conjunction with discipline leads and system architects, such that the optimal approach, architecture, design, and toolchain are selected.
• Supports the Project Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project and works with them to optimise the schedule logic.
• Oversee the development and design review process, ensuring that all deliverables are of suitable quality and contractual milestones are met.
• Responsible for the engineering budget on the project and monitors & forecasts effort and cost to completion, in order to identify and address overspend or schedule slip.

Personal attributes:
• Significant experience and background in either:
- the design and delivery of complex electronic equipment, preferably for harsh environments
- research and development projects with significant System Engineering content.
• Excellent teambuilding and management skills with the ability and experience of managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience of DOORS, UML and SysML would be advantageous.
• Excellent general written and verbal communications skills.
• Willing to undergo, and are able to achieve and maintain, SC and/or DV security clearance.

Benefits
Every employee is critical to our Client’s success and as such they offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities for motivated and dedicated employees.
The Greenford office has an onsite restaurant and local transport links. In addition you will receive:
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• 4x your annual salary in life assurance
• Flexible benefits package (retail vouchers, gym discounts, employee share scheme, ability to buy or sell annual leave and more!)
• Pension Scheme

Please be aware that many roles working for the Company will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organization.