Project Engineering Manager

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Project Engineering Manager to join the team with our prestigious client, this is a hybrid role at their site in Portsmouth and is initially for 6 months. The Project Engineering Manager will have an understanding of Qualification and  Certification requirements

Job Description

The role assists in delivery of projects to budget, schedule, scope and risk management
Has full technical responsibility for the results of the units effort and for the effectiveness of its overall integration with other units
Engineering Team Leaders tend to specialise in a discipline area (electrical, mechanical, etc.), or functionally according to type of product or process.
The Project Engineering Manager will be responsible for driving the engineering solution through its development, into build and then through qualification before delivery to the customer in a complex and rapid turnaround development contract.
Direct interaction with the customer is expected as well as the potential for travel overseas to support programme meetings or final customer integration activities.
The candidate will apply experience and knowledge to deliver against the project requirements to time, cost and quality. Also responsible for achieving it.

Core Duties

Typical duties include (but are not limited to the following)
Ensure the day to day management and performance/delivery for assigned projects, sub contracts, vendors and/or accounts.
Provides day-to-day supervision (administrative and technical) for a staff of engineers, design engineers or technician engineers within a unit of an engineering department
Carries both technical and administrative responsibility for staff
Carries full technical responsibility for the results of the unit’s efforts and for the effectiveness of its overall integration with other units
Directs work assignments, scheduling, and reviews of work in progress.
Handles personnel actions including performance reviews, salary recommendations, and co-ordination of training and development.
Reviews technical feasibility of proposed solutions to engineering problems.
Personally helps solve particularly difficult technical problems.
Provide technical leadership.
The candidate will provide engineering expertise and direction to the Mine Counter Measures (MCM) multi-skilled Engineering team in driving forward the required development, build, test and qualification activities ensuring adherence to key Life Cycle Management and Design Maturity reviews.
The candidate will support technical discussions with external stakeholders (including the customer) and support other contract growth/bidding activities.
Support the management of Customer expectations

Knowledge: 

Familiar with the defence industry or at least what to expect in terms of qualification/certification requirements.
Understanding of concepts and principals relating to an area within an engineering discipline.
Has experience and able to apply knowledge to a wide range of engineering issues within the engineering discipline.
Understanding of how activities of own teams interrelates and interacts with other functional areas aligned to the same discipline and project
Understands in detail the technical specification aligned to the functional area of activity. Requires a limited understanding of the external environment
Manages cost & budgets, time, quality of work and motivation & utilisation of staff.
Provides expert advice and guidance to others within the same team or same discipline area.
Knowledge of product/system integration processes and principles.

Skills:

Experience in managing a technical team. Can be mechanical, electrical or systems engineering.
Requires strong communication, diplomacy and interpersonal skills. Typically communication will be internally focused but may include limited communication and interface with external contacts and customers.
Is required to influence, guide and convince others to adopt a particular course of action.
Requires ability to make judgements but is based on information provided and analysed by others.
Makes judgement based on previous experience.

Recognising the restricted nature of the work there is a requirement for the candidate to be eligible to obtain Security Clearance for this role.