Job Title:  Engineering Manager, Speciality

Job Purpose

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The role is accountable for the delivery of technical work to the business through:

• Leadership and goal setting for the department
• Delivery to the business of revenue generating hours
• Monitoring internal department project hours/schedule/cost adherence
• Reviewing and agreeing project priority (internally to department, and at business level) 
• Timely delivery of cells to projects
• Verification of product as flight suitable through test and analysis
• Ensuring Technical inputs to projects (internal and external) are of sufficient quality
• Developing and implementing department cost reduction and improvement strategy
• Communication of department information within the business 
• Defining, tracking and reporting department KPIs
• Defining and maintaining the department process document system
• Audit preparation and participation

As Engineering Manager, the role will be accountable for managing their direct reports and co-ordinating across the department, including:

• Timesheets/absence monitoring/annual leave etc 
• Setting of goals/objectives and performing appraisals
• Training and career development plans
• Co-ordinating and prioritising work and resource across the department
• Organising and chairing department meetings
• Resource loading and needs identification 
• Recruitment

The postholder will be expected to:

• Foster a culture of innovation & delivery excellence
• Develop new processes & methodologies for executing the Engineering function through utilisation of emerging technologies such as AI and other digital innovations
• Be comfortable implementing new ways of working into an established team and the wider business

Knowledge/Experience

A bachelor’s degree in STEM subject, or industry equivalent qualification.

Essential

• 10 years relevant experience within a highly regulated industry
• Demonstrable ability to lead, coach, develop and foster a culture of innovation & delivery excellence
• Experience of providing technical assurance, guidance and support to commercial customers
• Experience of new product development activities 
• Experience and understanding of Project delivery requirements & frameworks
• A focus on mentoring and developing others, leading the continued development and maintenance of a quality culture within the Engineering department
• Strong skills with MS Office / Office 365 suite of programs

Desirable

• Battery design & requirement management, or European Space Industry Standards (ECSS)
• Experience working with aerospace industry primes, agencies, and end users.
• Experience of Agile development methodologies

Skills/Competencies

• Team leadership & ability to lead by example
• A strong understanding of product verification & requirement management.
• An ability to work in a multi-project environment; to effectively prioritise and work flexibly to detailed scheduled plans and tight deadlines.
• An ability to delegate tasks and support team members working across a portfolio of projects
• Business minded, and process driven.  
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills for stakeholder management. 
• An ability to report key performance metrics, propose solutions, and take ownership to deliver projects and improvements