INSIDE IR35
Location: Portsmouth (Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite per week)
Duration: 12 Month Contract Initially
Rate: £71.16 per hour umbrella
Overview:
- First level of supervision where the incumbent has both technical and administrative responsibility for staff.
- The role assists in delivery of projects to budget, schedule, scope and risk management
- Has full technical responsibility for the results of the units effort and for the effectiveness of its overall integration with other units
- Engineering Team Leaders tend to specialise in a discipline area (electrical, mechanical, etc.), or functionally according to type of product or process.
- The Project Engineering Manager will be responsible for driving the engineering solution through its development, into build and then through qualification before delivery to the customer in a complex and rapid turnaround development contract.
- Direct interaction with the customer is expected as well as the potential for travel overseas to support programme meetings or final customer integration activities.
- The candidate will apply experience and knowledge to deliver against the project requirements to time, cost and quality. Also responsible for achieving it.
Core Duties:
- Ensure the day to day management and performance/delivery for assigned projects, sub contracts, vendors and/or accounts.
- Provides day-to-day supervision (administrative and technical) for a staff of engineers, design engineers or technician engineers within a unit of an engineering department
- Carries both technical and administrative responsibility for staff
- Carries full technical responsibility for the results of the unit's efforts and for the effectiveness of its overall integration with other units
- Directs work assignments, scheduling, and reviews of work in progress.
- Handles personnel actions including performance reviews, salary recommendations, and co-ordination of training and development.
- Reviews technical feasibility of proposed solutions to engineering problems.
- Personally helps solve particularly difficult technical problems.
- Provide technical leadership.
- The candidate will provide engineering expertise and direction to the Mine Counter Measures (MCM) multi-skilled Engineering team in driving forward the required development, build, test and qualification activities ensuring adherence to key Life Cycle Management and Design Maturity reviews.
- The candidate will support technical discussions with external stakeholders (including the customer) and support other contract growth/bidding activities.
- Support the management of Customer expectations
Key Skills / Experience:
- Familiar with the defense industry or at least what to expect in terms of qualification/certification requirements.
- Understanding of concepts and principals relating to an area within an engineering discipline.
- Has experience and able to apply knowledge to a wide range of engineering issues within the engineering discipline.
- Understanding of how activities of own teams interrelates and interacts with other functional areas aligned to the same discipline and project
- Understands in detail the technical specification aligned to the functional area of activity. Requires a limited understanding of the external environment
- Manages cost & budgets, time, quality of work and motivation & utilisation of staff.
- Provides expert advice and guidance to others within the same team or same discipline area.
- Knowledge of product/system integration processes and principles.
- Experience in managing a technical team. Can be mechanical, electrical or systems engineering.
- Requires strong communication, diplomacy and interpersonal skills. Typically communication will be internally focused but may include limited communication and interface with external contacts and customers.
- Is required to influence, guide and convince others to adopt a particular course of action.
- Requires ability to make judgements but is based on information provided and analysed by others.
- Makes judgement based on previous experience.
