Job Description

Job Title \xe2\x80\x93 Systems Engineering Manager

Job Location \xe2\x80\x93 Portchester, UK

Flexible working hours considered and hybrid working where possible.

Job ID \xe2\x80\x93 IMS20231407-103503

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Portchester are a market leader in the development, build and integration of systems for a wide range of unmanned marine vehicles with military and commercial applications. For military these include Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), and Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) for combat training. For commercial these include Oil and Gas Exploration and Construction, Oceanographic Data Collection, Hydrographic surveying and Environmental Surveys.

This role is to join a rapidly growing team of Systems Engineers and to both line manager and coordinate what is current a small team of early career professionals. The applicant would be responsible for supporting their development as well as resource management, mapping people to project demands. Beyond the line management aspects of this role, the incumbent would act as a Systems Engineer directly on key projects across both defence and commercial applications working within cross-functional project teams to deliver complex systems incorporating software, mechanical and electrical systems.

Part of the role is to hold accountability for the technical governance of specific projects.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Flexible working hours considered and hybrid working where possible
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Maintaining the resource plan of System Engineering demand against projects
• Providing an escalation path for System Engineering issues
• Providing day to day management of verification and validation activities
• Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints.
• Supervises lower level professionals or supervisors and/or higher-level support
• Communicates with parties inside and outside of own department to explain and interpret policies, practices, and procedures
• Making improvements to processes, systems, and solutions.
• Planning and establishing operational objectives for a team with moderate impact on department results.
• Maintaining the resource plan for the department
• Managing resources against budgeted hours
• Deploying a basic knowledge in management approaches with proficient knowledge within professional discipline.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring

The role of Systems Engineering Manager requires the following experience and skills:

• Minimum of 5/6 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in a Systems Engineering leadership role
• Management of Verification and Validation (V&V) evidence and understand the importance of traceability to customer requirements
• Resource matrix management for Systems Engineers deployed across multiple projects, manage demand across projects, review workforce planning and carry out recruitment activities to meet business needs
• Proven experience in technical governance across a variety of projects
• Broad knowledge of Systems Design methodologies

Important to know

Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK.

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

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Job Profile Matching Criteria: Expertise Engineering--Systems
Location UK - England - Portchester

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