Project Engineering Manager

Job Description

Your Impact

Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering Projects, Typhoon Radar, and collaborating closely with Design Authorities, a Project Engineering Manager is required to lead & coordinate the engineering support to production for the Typhoon Captor Radar contracts and to aid with the ongoing maturity development of the radar system capability.

Leading, and continuing to grow and develop the existing team, you will have full responsibility for all aspects of engineering support to production of the Captor-E radar. This role requires strong leadership skills, clear thinking with a proven ability to identify and prioritise key issues whilst deploying solid root cause and corrective action techniques to run problem solutions to completion through design or process change. Additionally, you will be required support the ongoing capability development for the programme and advise on process and technique improvements not only in production but also for product functionality development.

As part of the Typhoon Radar IPT, this role is Edinburgh based and requires predominantly on site working and reports on a day-to-day basis to the Head of Engineering Projects.

What you’ll bring;

• be the primary engineering point of contact for operations, a key individual in the delivery of Typhoon radar production.
• provide leadership and direction to the existing engineering support team to ensure production output targets are achieved, managing the prioritisation of activities and deployment of resource to best support product delivery.
• Plan and execute effective root cause / corrective action plans.
• Grow team capacity and capability through people and process development.