Systems Engineering Manager
Location
Barnstaple, Devon | United Kingdom
Job description
Overview
Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.
This role is part of the Engineering Delivery Management roles that are focused on the overall management of engineering activities, including technical, schedule and cost. They manage and monitor the solution engineering activities and the teams and are responsible for the development and deployment of processes, practices and tools for a specific project. The individual will be responsible to ensure alignment between project solutions and Engineering group guidance.
Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate engineering teams performing a work package, to conduct all activities to reach completion regarding its technical, industrial, schedule and financial objectives while satisfying the needs of the Program Manager.
- Develop and agree to project budgets and scope by estimating costs, setting the agreed budget with the Project Manager, and managing actual and forecast costs against the budget.
- Support business development and bidding activities through technical work package definition and related resource effort estimation.
- Schedule internal activities in coordination with subcontractor activities, including supporting the development of a project Integrated Master Schedule with defined milestones and dependencies.
- Define the system development cycle, tailor and document the system engineering process, practices and tools. This may include Agile and Lean methodology depending on the context.
- Define resource requirements for the work package and anticipate and communicate resource issues and constraints, internal and external.
- Manage scope of the work package ensuring requirements are clear and bounded and desired results are documented.Review and validate internal and subcontractor plans.
- Manage internal and external reviews, including peer reviews as necessary.
- Manage timely deliveries to the customer.
- Allocate the contractual requirements and track throughout the project lifecycle.
- Monitor the engineering activities through project engineering dashboards.
- Organize, control and monitor the integration activities.
- Ensure an efficient and effective problem reporting process.
- Participate in the management of Risks of Opportunities throughout the lifecycle of the project.
- Manage the various Engineering Changes Proposal (ECPs) (technical content and impact analysis).
- Control and monitor corrective actions as identified through Reviews and Quality evaluations.
- Issue the engineering status reports to Project Management.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of any event that could threaten Schedule, Performance or Cost objectives; and Jointly with Engineering Resource Managers (RM).
- Providing day-to-day technical direction to dedicated employees on your project, and supports performance management activities throughout the year.
- Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including supporting new employee onboarding; Leads employees to meet the organization's expectations for productivity, quality, continuous improvement, and goal accomplishment; Fosters a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members that allows for cohesiveness, support, and working effectively together to enable each employee and the department to succeed.
- Jointly with the Chief Engineers (CE): Identifies and reviews the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project; Organises when appropriate technical meetings and peer reviews in order to perform the solution or solution element technical assessment and validation.
- Lines of Authority: The SEM reports dually to the CE and to the Project Manager (PM).
- The SEM coordinates with the Engineering Departments to assign system engineers, specialty engineering resources, and support functions including Configuration Management (CM) to the project. The SEM has authority to create and retire engineering roles within the project, to modify their team organisation, and to appoint individuals to roles under their purview.
- Lines of Communication; The SEM maintains regular communication with the PM and CE in relation to the key responsibilities specified herein.
- The SEM maintains regular communication with the System Engineering Head of Disciplines and contributes to capitalization within their discipline
- The SEM communicates with Thales subcontractors and suppliers in concert with the PM and the Subcontracts and Procurement function.
Qualifications
- Degree, HND or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Familiar with systems engineering best practice.
- Experience with electrical design and product development.
- Experience with naval combat systems is desirable.
- Competence with requirements management tools such as DOORs is preferred.
- Competence with SYSML management tools such as EA is preferred.
- Training will be provided where necessary.
Essential Skills
- Requirements management
- System Architecting
- Subcontractor management
- IVVQA experience
- Certification experience MOD defence
Desired Skills
- Experience in the defence industry.
- Lean/Agile methodology, experience with naval systems or/and mission systems is highly desirable.
Experience
- Experience: 5+ years experience in coordinating system engineering activities and proven experience managing cost and schedule.
- Experience with electronic systems.
- Experience with JIRA, DOORS, EA
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
- We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
- Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.
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