Engineering Manager

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BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Digital Intelligence:

Customers increasingly demand integrated information and technology solutions delivering advantage, communications, planning, operations and cyber protection. BAE Systems has recently formed a new business unit called Digital Intelligence to bring together a range of capabilities to meet this Digital demand. Within Digital Intelligence, we are C5ISR and we design and build cutting edge IT solutions for incorporation into products and services for both Military and Space Solutions.

What you’ll be doing for us:

As Engineering Manager you will be in an oversight role with responsibility for managing the engineering on projects that deliver solutions that meet product or customer requirements. You will be leading a teams of engineers and be responsible for their performance against budgets and schedules. You will work with our Engineering Functional Leads to apply the right level of engineering process to deliverable solutions at an acceptable standard. Typically our Engineering Managers will look after projects of between £1-5M per year and be accountable for up to 20 engineers. You will bring experience from your current and previous roles to provide new perspectives to the way we work. You will help to develop the next generation technical experts from our Talent Pool

You will receive training in our tools and processes and be encouraged to gain professional registration as a Chartered Engineer.

What previous experience will you have:

Preferably in the Defence Domain (or with the ability adjust)

• Managing teams to an agreed schedule and within budget
• Generating metrics and reporting the status of the engineering on your project
• Responsible for the process and lifecycle choices for your project
• Solving problems and re-planning where required
• Developing the engineering workforce
• Supporting recruitment

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Managing an engineering projects
• Creating and using schedules with multiple resources
• Understanding of software development and COTS integration
• Understanding of Life Cycle Management and Business Reviews
• Good communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Experience of delivery, installation, and maintenance of Military IT equipment
• Radio, SATCOM, IP Networks or Tactical Data Links systems
• Understanding of development frameworks and software implementation
• Understanding of Information Assurance (IA) and Cyber security, or security architectures

Location: Can be based at either Christchurch in Dorset or Yeovil in Somerset .

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including: performance related bonus (of up to 10%); 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

Why BAE Systems?

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Staying competitive in today’s global marketplace requires an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential. We also welcome discussions about flexible working.

Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for this position within BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Due to the nature of our work, successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance (without caveat) prior to starting with us . https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.