Head of Engineering vacancy in Saudi Arabia (144jc)

This Internationally Renowned Telecommunications Company is now seeking a dynamic Head of Engineering to help them propel this company into the 2020’s.

You will be reporting to the Managing Director and you will have a team of about 50 engineers reporting to you via the Chief Engineers, and your primary objectives and functions will include:
• Fully accountable for effective management of engineering function and for governance in line with company processes and customer expectation.
• As Design Authority for the company ensure systems meet standards and customer requirements.
• Responsible for leading engineering best practice and maintaining capability.

So a summary of your duties and responsibilities will consist of:
• Responsible for the delivery of the Engineering output required to support the customer. As such, the Head of Engineering will:
1. Ensure that engineering design and practice is conducted and wholly resourced appropriately to company standards;
2. Provide a SDA function, managing design reviews etc. in line with Customer needs.
3. Be responsible for the appropriate management of the Engineering function with regard to commercial contractual obligations
4. Be the prime contact for technical matters relating to company work
• Provide ‘hands-on’ engineering management of key bids and programmes to supplement the existing engineering management teams.
• Fully accountable for managing the Engineering team and output within budget and for completing appropriate commercial processes required to facilitate/support financial revenue.
• Fully accountable for maintaining records of engineering effort/time in accordance with standard company practice.
• Responsible for delivering Engineering operations to current best practice within budget constraints.
• Responsible to provide Through Life Management

To help achieve this you will have the following contact with others (Internal/External/Meetings):

The Head of Engineering will be expected to come into contact with UK and SA MOD, suppliers, internal management and other corporate visitors. Travel between UK and Saudi Arabia will be expected. Will be expected to act as customer friend and single point of contact for engineering.

Recruitment Specification (Knowledge & Experience):

Essential
• UK Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline.
• Over 10 years proven experience in a similar role, senior level design authority and team lead experience on complex large value systems.
• Practitioner level experience in systems engineering, ISO 15288
• Good standard of written and spoken English

Desirable
• Chartered Engineer
• MBA
• Business experience in the Defence Sector
• Experience in delivery of communications services
• Knowledge ITIL processes
• Experience of living or working in the Middle East

The ideal candidate would be someone who has left the forces and has held a similar role in the civilian sector for at least a couple of years.

As this role is based in Saudi Arabia, candidates must meet all of the minimum qualifications as they are not bound by UK or EU Laws, also only individuals up to the age of 55 will be considered for any of these roles.

In return they are offering an excellent salary and benefits package for accompanied or unaccompanied personnel and of course the benefits package will be UK Tax Free, and due to the nature of this role, it is only open to UK Nationals only.