Engineering Manager

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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.

As part of Expleo's continued growth strategy, Expleo have a requirement for an experienced Engineering Manager who will have responsibility for delivery performance of a portfolio of projects.

This is a challenging but rewarding role and the candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability and show proven experience, to manage multiple activities in a high-pressure environment whilst setting priorities to achieve business objectives.

The role will involves leading a team to manage MOD contracts, planning and delivering proposals and managing the delivery of projects. This role is critical to the growth of a new business area for Expleo and represents an opportunity for personal career growth based on successful delivery.

Responsibilities

• Leading the Engineering teams: Lead the team to delivery, monitoring performance, facilitating growth and ensure the team to achieve the targeted objectives.
• Delivery: Will ensure delivery performance (contract, deliverables, workloads), and quality (RFT, OQD, OTD & CSAT) of a portfolio of projects and bids.
• Business Development: Working with Business Development Director, Chief Engineers and Capability teams to identify opportunities and to support proposals/bids, which address customer needs in a highly competitive market.
• Managing the team, partners, suppliers and clients: Oversee contact between the team members, project managers, clients, suppliers and partners. Apply communication skills to inform clients about project progress and engage and instruct team members.
• Negotiating and managing contracts: Support in negotiating and managing contracts with clients and suppliers, ensuring the team meets all needs to foster positive relationships with external parties.
• Project Planning: Define the technical objectives of projects and establish delivery hours, cost and timelines. This involves determining the resources and milestones to achieve project success.
• Manage Resources: Monitor expenditures, allocate resources efficiently, ensure that the projects are adequately resourced and enable the recruitment process working closely with talent acquisition and Country Lead.
• Project Reporting: Working with the PM community, ensure that Project Tracking processes are completed and the Project Finance Reviews are performed in line with company process and to the standard and frequency set by the Head of Projects
• Conducting risk assessments: Conduct risk assessments & complexity assessments to anticipate potential project challenges. Identifying risks early ensures that we can develop mitigation strategies and ensure a project's success.
• Implementing technical regulatory standards: Engineering managers enforce technical standards to maintain quality and consistency across projects.
• Finding solutions for technical issues: When technical problems arise, lead in finding viable solutions. Utilise understanding of systems to help identify issues and devise efficient solutions.
• Staff Development: Assess and monitoring the performance of staff on the project and provide feedback to the UK Capability Leads and People Services Manager.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree/diploma would be advantageous (beneficial IPMA/Prince/APM/PMI qualified)

Essential skills

• Customer-focused balanced with recognising the need for governance
• Ability to establish and meet deadlines, multi-task and prioritise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong planning and delivery orientation
• Full business lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and developing capture plans and winning strategies

Experience

• Naval Architecture / Mechanical Engineering / Marine industry experience.
• Experience within service and support for UK MOD projects
• Experience of MOD processes across the CADMID life cycle
• Proven and significant experience in an Operational, Functional or Programme leadership position.
• Technical and Commercial acumen.
• Experience of performance management of people & teams.
• KPI ownership & delivery

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
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

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• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

"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".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

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