Senior Sonobuoy Engineering Lead

3 weeks ago


Greenford, Greater London, United Kingdom Ultra Full time

This role is a critical part of the Ultra Maritime team, responsible for delivering engineering activities to time, cost, and quality across all engineering aspects of the sonobuoy portfolio.

As the Sonobuoy Engineering Manager, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that solutions meet requirements and are fit for purpose. The sonobuoy portfolio spans new product development, in-service support, and products already in production.

This senior role requires a background in sonar or acoustics, with extensive experience in work package management. Ideal candidates will have:

  • Experience managing teams of teams
  • Engineering estimation skills, with the ability to review, challenge, and defend estimates
  • Creative experience with Work Breakdown Structures and delivery strategies
  • Expertise in producing engineering plans with dependencies, assumptions, risk, and opportunities identified, communicated, and managed
  • Understanding of design gates and project lifecycles
  • Coaching and/or mentoring experience

This role requires eligibility for Security Check (SC) clearance, ideally with no caveats.

The role offers a hybrid working arrangement, with flexibility to balance home and on-site work, occasional UK travel, and a two-stage interview process.

Benefits include optional 9-day fortnight, TOIL, flexible working hours, 1 pm finish on Fridays, annual bonus, and hybrid working for certain job roles.



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