Engineering Delivery Manager
Posted 1 day ago by Morson Edge
£460 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Glasgow
Summary: The Engineering Delivery Manager will oversee significant development and production projects within OME, collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery. This role involves leading multi-discipline engineering teams, managing project resources, and ensuring adherence to cost, schedule, and quality standards. The ideal candidate will possess a strong engineering background and excellent communication skills, with a focus on customer satisfaction and continuous improvement. Security clearance is required for this position, emphasizing the need for a sole British National from birth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet customer needs.
- Define the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on engineering estimates.
- Manage interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme.
- Define the organisation and work breakdown with the Programme Manager to meet customer needs.
- Ensure cost, schedule, and quality of the engineering delivery for the programme are met.
- Define work packages in terms of resources, budgets, risks, and timescales.
- Plan and prioritise activities to deliver solutions within contract schedules, costs, and quality.
- Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering team, proactively addressing issues and risks.
- Report on engineering efficiency for the project and identify re-use opportunities.
- Act as People Manager for the engineering team, providing feedback into reviews with functional leads.
Key Skills:
- Strong background in engineering with experience in multi-disciplinary project delivery.
- Excellent communication skills and customer-focused approach.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple objectives.
- Understanding of systems engineering life cycle, practices, and tools.
- Knowledge of naval, air, or land products is beneficial.
- Agility in ensuring business objectives remain in focus.
- Experience in managing complexity and engaging stakeholders.
- Ability to manage risk and foster continuous improvement.
- Support for the development of others to enhance customer service.
Salary (Rate): £460/day
City: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Engineering
Job Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Delivery Manager. This role will be on at least one of our significant development and production projects within OME. As an Engineering Delivery Manager you will work in collaboration with the Programme Managers, the Engineering Delivery Lead, the Head of Engineering Delivery and the wider engineering team to ensure delivery of the engineering development projects.
In this role you will be responsible for:
- leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
- the definition of the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project
- managing the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme
- defining the organisation and work breakdown, with the Programme Manager, required to deliver to the Customer needs
- defining and being in charge of meeting cost, schedule and quality of the whole engineering delivery for the programme
- defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver
- within the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality
- day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks
- managing and reporting of the engineering efficiency for the project
- the identification of re-use opportunities across the project
- act as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads
The successful candidate will have a strong background in engineering with knowledge in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives and have an understanding of systems engineering life cycle, practices and tools. Knowledge of naval, air or land products would be beneficial to this role.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
- acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
- dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives
- engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal
- creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement
- supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers
This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery. Due to the nature of the work, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a sole British National from birth and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats . It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.