Engineering Support Manager (Programmes)

The Engineering Support Manager is responsible for the successful delivery and co-ordination of the Programme Management Team’s resources, qualifications, personal development, management of their interdependencies and oversight of their risks and issues arising. The role also includes the co-ordination of new skills and continuous improvement to enable effective change and realisation of personnel and programme benefits.

Duties:
The Engineering Support Manager is responsible for:

• Planning and maintaining an effective support regime, proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
• Ensuring effective quality assurance around project delivery – focusing on Suitably Qualified Experienced Personnel (SQEP) consistency for programmes, alignment with STS Defence strategy and outwardly on its coherence with customer expectation and specialist standards
• Facilitating the assignment of individuals to Integrated Project Teams for complex projects
• Ensuring the maintenance of sufficient resources and skills for programme activities and the effective allocation of required skills to individual projects
• Managing communications with all internal and relevant external stakeholders
• Managing the SQEP dependencies and interfaces between projects
• Initiate training, skills development
• Reporting the progress of the support regime at regular intervals to the Business Manager and Managing Director, as directed in the company communications plan
• Proactive identification and exploitation of all new business development opportunities
• Product Safety Training

Skills/Qualifications:
The Engineering Support Manager should have:

• Effective leadership, management, interpersonal and communications skills
• The ability to command respect and to create a sense of community within the engineering support teams
• Good knowledge of the techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling personnel
• Sound business case development and approvals skills
• Good understanding of recruitment, personnel development processes and negotiation with third parties
• An understanding of programme and project management methods such as MSP, PRINCE2, APM, Change Management and MoR
• Good knowledge of budgetary and resource allocation procedures

Additional Information
SECURITY – All candidates must be in a position to obtain UK security clearance to SC level. Additional restrictions may apply on certain defence programmes.
UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Apply by emailing your CV to hr@sts-defence.com