Engineering Director

4 weeks ago

Greenford, Greater London, United Kingdom Ultra Full time

This role works closely with the International Sonobuoys Programmes Director, Sonobuoys System Design Authority and Sonobuoys Project Manager. As the Sonobuoys Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for successfully delivering engineering activities to time, cost and quality across all engineering aspects of the sonobuoys portfolio. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that solutions meet requirements and are fit for purpose.

The growing Sonobuoys portfolio spans new product development, in-service support and products that are already in production. This senior role will suit someone with a background in sonar or acoustics who has extensive experience of work package management.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Managing teams of teams
  • Engineering estimation, with the ability to review, challenge and defend estimates
  • Creating Work Breakdown Structures and defining delivery strategies
  • Producing engineering plans with dependencies, assumptions, risk and opportunities identified, communicated and managed
  • Understanding the different design gates a project goes through, from bid to full scale production readiness review
  • Coaching and/or mentoring experience

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

We have three sites: Greenford, Loudwater and Weymouth. This is a hybrid role giving you the flexibility to balance working from home and being on-site as necessary, with occasional UK travel.

To be successful in this role, you are likely to need to be regularly on site at Greenford, e.g. a couple of days per week.

There will be a two-stage interview process. The first will be with the Director of Engineering Projects and an Engineering Manager, and the second will be with the International Sonobuoy Programme Director. The first will cover the role and technical suitability, and the second will focus more on leadership and business/team fit, with a short presentation on how you would go about establishing yourself as the Sonobuoys Engineering Manager.

Benefits on offer include:

  • Optional 9 day fortnight
  • TOIL
  • Flexible working hours
  • 1pm finish on a Friday
  • Annual bonus
  • Hybrid working for certain job roles
  • Casual dress
  • 25 days holiday
  • Christmas shut down
  • Option to buy or sell holiday
  • Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice
  • Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
  • 4 x annual salary life cover
  • Pension starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee

At Ultra Maritime, we value diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. We promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures, believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, and welcome applications from all candidates.

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