Finmeccanica UK

Job Reference

SEL004023

 

Job Description

To act as the focal point for engineering for the HLS/CNI LoB (part of S&SS Division) and through well managed, multifunctional engineering teams ownership of all aspects of the engineering activities for both bids and current account.

 

Key Responsibility Areas

• Engage with customers, sales and Capability to produce compelling, affordable engineering system designs for complex bids in the civil market environment.
• Challenges and validates estimates and schedules, including forward load requirements (Bids and current account). Owns the engineering solution and costs for bids.
• Delivery of the overall engineering solution to time, cost and performance across all projects
• Through both LoB owned resources and engagement with Central Engineering, provide well managed engineering teams under the leadership of Project Engineering Manager/Leads as appropriate.
• Ensures core engineering processes are appropriately tailored to the non-military (civil) market environment.
• Ensures that engineering plans, showing key milestones and interdependencies are created and maintained for all projects within the LoB.
• Identifies, evaluates and mitigates engineering project risks.
• Works across our transnational organisation to build relationships and promotes a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation across IPTs.
• Ensures/verifies that for each bid/project, the design solution complies to all design requirements, including customer specification, legislative, contractual and product/system safety.
• Supports project reviews, phase reviews, design reviews and tender vets.
• Ensure critical factors such as Unit Production Cost, mass, power consumption, etc. are defined, tracked and managed for all projects within the LoB.
• Ensure that preventative action is taken to address non-conformances.
• Manage interface between engineering and operations where appropriate.
• Personally coach and mentor his direct team and other engineers and act as a role model for appropriate behaviours.

 

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge

Degree qualified in an engineering discipline. Typically meets the requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer with the Likely to be an active member of a relevant Professional Body.

 

Intrinsic Job Factors

• Demonstrable experience and success within their previous role.
• Will have built up well-rounded engineering experiences in all of the phases of the lifecycle across many projects or programmes in a number of engineering domains.
• Detailed knowledge of design methodologies and techniques in all engineering disciplines from system level to sub assembly level.
• Additional experiences in related but non-engineering functions such as Project Management, Supply Chain Management etc.
• Experience of customer/ supplier relations and working within IPTs.
• Will have had considerable experience in project and engineering management.
• Good Commercial acumen e.g. able to actively contribute to development broader elements of a proposal and negotiating a contract.
• Experienced key contributor to complex bids of varying scale.
• Experienced engineering lead for mid/large sized projects
• Previous experience in the bidding and execution of large scale civil security systems and/or critical communications programmes.

 

Equal Opportunities

The company is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. Decisions about recruitment and selection will be made objectively and without unlawful or unfair discrimination.

 

Company

Selex ES

 

Duration

Permanent

 

Location

Basildon

 

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