Engineering Delivery Manager

Engineering Delivery Manager

Location:             Templecombe (on site 3 days each week)

Duration:             6 months

Rate:                   Up to £70 per hour Umbrella (inside IR35)

As an Engineering Delivery Management Role, you will:

• Deploy the adequate Practices and Tools to reach the required maturity according to Project/Product delivery challenges.
• Work with the discipline delivery team to make them efficient, identify gaps and associated actions to support delivery continuous improvement.
• Capitalise and share knowledge and assets dedicated to delivery discipline.
• Manage, develop people/skills & allocation to products/projects.
• Take in charge Delivery Lead Staffing (SEM, WPM, Tribe Leader, Chief Product Owner) on project/product with respect to PPM/PMs’ requests.
• Represent the CC in project reviews.
• Reviews of ‘Engineering Deliverability’ for bids (engineering strategy & plan, schedule, solution maturity, risk reduction & risk mitigations, acceptance strategy, certification, resourcing, E2 strategy, estimates, contingency).
• Contribute on Bids/Products and Projects peer reviews to reduce engineering risks and increase confidence to deliver.

Proven Ability / Key Skills

• Extensive proven ability among the following positions: Engineering Manager, IT / Technical Project Manager, or Software Engineering Manager.
• You know how to verify the technical deliverables of engineering teams (customer needs, OCD, requirements, architecture choice etc.).
• You want to lead a technical team in a challenging environment.
• You want to delight your customers and build strong relationships.
• You are willing to engage and develop your team using collaborative work and challenging approaches.
• You believe in continuous improvement and work accordingly.
• You sound convincing and persuasive.
• You can lead and manage technical engineering projects, meeting the requirements with a clear view of the risks and opportunities.
• You can engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders as well as creating clear and achievable goals.
• You can take decisions–even in uncertain contexts.

Additional

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the project involved all applicants must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level.