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Our client, a leader in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a Systems Project Engineering Lead (PEL) to join their growing team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborating closely with the Project Manager and System Design Authority to ensure successful project delivery
- Leading a multi-disciplinary team to deliver engineering activities within scope, time, cost, and quality constraints
- Managing engineering development projects from requirements elicitation to production
- Producing engineering plans that include dependencies, assumptions, risks, and opportunities
- Understanding and managing configuration and change management
- Providing engineering estimation and work package management
- Maintaining effective communication with stakeholders
- Ensuring adherence to design gates from bid to full production readiness review
Job Requirements:
- Extensive experience in Change & Transformation, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering
- Solid background in Systems Engineering with a strong understanding of multidisciplinary integration
- Experience in managing teams on complex engineering projects
- Familiarity with engineering estimation and producing detailed engineering plans
- Experience on defence projects
- Understanding of configuration and change management principles
- Excellent communication skills for building strong relationships with team members and stakeholders
- Eligibility for Security Check (SC) clearance
Benefits:
- Optional 9 day fortnight
- Time Off In Lieu (TOIL)
- Flexible working hours
- 1pm finish on Fridays
- Annual bonus
- Hybrid working for certain roles
- Casual dress code
- 25 days holiday plus Christmas shutdown
- Option to buy or sell holiday
- Options for private healthcare, dental, and critical illness cover via salary sacrifice
- Reward hub offering discounts at over 200 online stores
- 4x annual salary life cover
- Pension scheme starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee contributions
If you have a background in systems engineering and are eager to lead complex defence projects, we encourage you to apply now to join our client's dynamic team! Please contact me for further details!
