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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Owning the overall technical solution across the full lifecycle, including design, compliance, safety, integrity, and certification.
- Acting as the delegated Design Authority and Company Technical Signatory for assigned products.
- Leading technical engagement with customers to define solutions, supported by SMEs, and representing Leonardo with internal and external stakeholders.
- Delivering solutions that meet end-user needs, working closely with development teams and the supply chain to understand operational use and requirements.
- Ensuring compliance with performance, legislative and contractual requirements, with clear, traceable evidence strategies in place.
- Managing technical trade-offs across performance, cost and schedule to deliver coherent, achievable solutions.
- Providing technical leadership, including risk and opportunity management, and setting direction for requirements and verification strategies.
- Communicating key issues, risks and opportunities to senior engineering leadership and contributing to strategic capability and cost improvement initiatives.
- Leading and mentoring technical teams to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions.
- Chairing Design Reviews to ensure robust governance, quality and independent assurance and adherence to company lifecycle and engineering processes.
Requirements
What you’ll need- A strong technical background with extensive experience in the design, development, qualification and certification of complex military products, including radar and EW systems.
- Broad experience across Requirements, Verification, Qualification and Acceptance, including achieving Design Certification and Customer Acceptance.
- Proven ability to manage Design Standards and Configuration Management and deliver innovative system-level solutions.
- Develop compliant technical solutions within cost and schedule constraints lead effectively with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Be a self-motivated leader and collaborative team player, able to operate with minimal direction and communicate effectively with SMEs and end users across diverse technical and cultural environments.
- Knowledge of EW equipment use within customer operational environments, alongside awareness of training and software development principles.
- Degree-qualified in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline, with Chartered Engineer status (or working towards) and Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) membership.
- Strong analytical capability with proven technical problem-solving skills.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
- Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
- Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
- Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
- Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
- Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
- Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
- Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options.
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Hard Skills & Tools
designdevelopmentqualificationcertificationrequirementsverificationacceptanceconfiguration managementtechnical problem-solvingrisk management
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder engagementcollaborationcommunicationself-motivationmentoringanalytical capabilityteam playerstrategic thinkingcost improvement
Certifications
Chartered Engineer statusInstitute of Engineering and Technology (IET) membership