Project Engineering Manager

Our products do many things including saving people's lives by finding and treating cancer, helping map our planet and the universe and freezing the atom down to 0° Kelvin., An exciting opportunity for a Project Engineering Manager has arisen within the RF Power division based in Chelmsford. You will be managing one of the RF Powers Project streams - Pulse Power, Tubes, Novel systems - MPMs/TWTA or Novel Systems - RFSS, ensuring that these complex engineering projects are delivered on time, on cost, and to quality expectations. These project streams include Multi-projects and encompass both customer facing projects and internal R&D projects. What will you be doing:

• Coordinating your engineering team, other departments and third parties / suppliers, for the successful execution of projects.
• Ensuring that roles and tasks are clearly defined, understood and delivered.
• Ensure that the Project activities are appropriately planned, costed and adequately resourced to achieve the programme in the most cost-effective manner.
• Carry out regular and thorough reviews of the progress and delivery of the Projects assessing all aspects of the project, including time, cost, quality, and risks.
• Managing changes, in project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, ensuring feasibility, and undertaking impact assessment, communicating, and seeking approval of changes.
• Keeps project stakeholders informed of project progress, performance and manpower utilization with attention to achievements, progress, risk management and forecast.
• Managing relationships with customers and other stakeholders, as required.
• Ensuring projects are delivered in adherence with internal project management processes and procedures.
• Ensure the Project team follows an effectively tailored Life Cycle Management Process,
• Establish new or improve existing delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals. Embracing new concepts in programme and product delivery, driving the implementation of best practice and new techniques with the wider programme delivery organisation
• Support Business Development in their roles of securing new business and setting strategy for the business.
• Line management of multi-disciplined Engineering teams,
• Manage resources appropriately. Hire the right people with the right attitudes and drive
• Manage the performance of your team, drive high performance by setting stretching and challenging objectives. Continually review these and provide feedback on an on-going basis and agreeing specific training needs.
• Ensuring resource availability and allocation, working with other Project Engineering Managers to deconflict and prioritise as necessary, to meet business needs.
• Support the development of Te2v project management capability by supporting and coaching more junior members of the project delivery team
• Take a leading role during the recruitment process and make final recruitment decisions
  
  We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins., Extensive experience of managing engineering projects through all or part of the lifecycle from bid to production.
• Demonstrable experience of energising teams to meet critical timescales and deliver projects.
• Persuasive and clear communication skills across all levels of the business.
• Strong problem solving capabilities.
• Strong commercial awareness
• Sound judgement - understanding when to own and brief and when to escalate.
• Proficiency in the use and understanding of Project Management / resource tools such as MS Project and MS Project Server or other enterprise project management tool.
• A working knowledge of SAP would be beneficial
• Qualification in project management methodologies desirable.
• Holding or eligible for Security Clearance and a UK National
Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne e2v is a global leader in specialised components and subsystems for innovative solutions in medical, science, aerospace, defence and industrial applications. Our products are everywhere, hospitals, planes, ships and even outer space, but you will only see them if you know where to look. Working with us will enable you to develop and gain experience in the ideas that are behind some of the most advanced technologies in the world. You will also get a chance to work alongside highly experienced engineers, technicians and scientists., With a long and enviable history of technical and scientific innovation, Teledyne e2v is always working at the forefront of technology.