Project Engineering Manager
Broad Oak based (Hybrid)
69.84 an hour Umbrella Inside IR35
6 Month Contract initially.
This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based In Broad Oak (Hybrid 2-3 days per week on site)
Role Description
- First level of supervision where the incumbent has both technical and administrative responsibility for staff.
- 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.
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.
- CEng or Equivalent OR experience in technical background, degree or equivalent in engineering (preferred).
For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.