Project Engineering Manager

Project Engineering Manager

52.93 - 69.84 per hour

Morson are currently recruiting for a project management role with one of our prestigious clients based at Broad Oak in Portsmouth. It is a critical temporary role to support the development and delivery of a complex and rapid turnaround development contract. You will have technical and administrative responsibility for staff. The role assists in delivery of projects to budget, schedule, scope and risk management.

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. We are recruiting for the role on a 12 month contract, with Hybrid working. We can offer the role at a rate of 52.93 per hour PAYE or 69.84 per hour Umbrella. Direct interaction with the customer is expected as well as the potential for travel overseas to support programme meetings or final customer integration activities.

• 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

• Experience in managing a technical team. Can be mechanical, electrical or systems engineering.
• Requires strong communication, diplomacy and interpersonal skills.
• Be able 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will need to be SC cleared or eligible for this level of clearance before starting on site