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Engineering Manager - Outfit

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Job Title: Engineering Manager - Outfit

Location: Scotstoun, Glasgow - Predominantly working from home with periodic travelling to Scotstoun

Salary: Up to £56,300 (dependant on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide engineering and management expertise to the delivery of the programme requirements, with responsibility for inputs to a Control Account Plan (CAP) with significant fiscal responsibility and managing an engineering team with a significant headcount

• Manage the engineering resource for Outfitting, including the delivery of engineering work and services as part of a large IPT comprising of a multidiscipline team that interfaces with multiple customers and suppliers

• Responsible for the development of engineering design and production output data in respects for Outfitting for the programme, including overall management responsibility for Stage 1 engineering Teams, ensuring delivery within cost, schedule and quality targets

• Responsible for running multiple internal and customer facing meetings, design reviews and schedule reviews, ensuring that technical content and decision making is of the highest quality

• Manage and support the inputs to the CAP and the engineering delivery schedule in order to drive resource planning and meet the requirements of the programme design

• Provide Line Management to Programme Outfit Engineering Team, including annual reporting and career management

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience of managing Naval Architecture effort or equivalent experience in a heavy industrial/marine environment

• Transformational leader with major programme experience at a senior level

• Understanding of Cost Account Management

• Experienced in Life Cycle Management reviews of bids and programmes

• Customer/end user focus/experience as well as customer procurement

Engineers at all levels should possess an academic qualification in Engineering or other related STEM subjects as well as specific (either academic or professional) qualifications and become recognised as Incorporated or Chartered Engineers through an appropriate recognised professional institution. Engineers are encouraged, and will be supported, to achieve the relevant accreditation. Preference will be given to candidates who are already professionally registered.

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Our Outfit Engineering Team:

As an Engineering Manager within our Outfit team, you will be managing a team of circa 25 people with both people management and technical responsibilities in the outfit domain. This is an excellent opportunity within our Naval Ships business where you will act as the SME within the Delivery Team for Outfitting.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 28th July 2023

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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