Head of Engineering Projects

Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership: Provide strategic direction and oversight across all programmes, motivating, leading and inspiring engineering teams to achieve excellence
• Deliver Engineering Success: Shape and direct the planning, resourcing, prioritisation, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, with accountability for the technical outcomes, alongside schedule and cost adherence
• Develop Talent: Build a high‑performing engineering organisation which includes proactive mentoring across the team, shaping capability development, and driving a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and technical excellence.
• Drive Innovation: Champion the evolution of engineering capability, by driving the adoption of cutting‑edge technologies, modern methodologies, and process enhancements that improve efficiency, quality, and competitiveness.
• Collaborate: Work alongside the internal engineering disciplines, to ensure the forward load is representative of future requirements, forecasting the skills and capability needs of the programmes, and develop robust succession plans to ensure continued future success
• Build effective partnerships : Forge strong working relationships with internal teams, external stakeholders, customers and partners to ensure alignment and seamless delivery across EW
• Due diligence and governance: Apply effective Life Cycle Management processes across bids and projects, taking overall responsibility for all Engineering governance assurance activities.
• Maintain Quality & Compliance: Guarantee adherence to safety, security, and quality standards, across the Engineering teams
• Manage Budgets: Lead the optimisation of engineering budgets, making informed trade‑off decisions that deliver value without compromising quality, safety, or programme integrity
• Risk Management: Drive a proactive and transparent risk management approach across all Engineering practices, anticipating risks, guiding effective controls, and ensuring alignment with organisational priorities
• Support the Sector VP in monthly Project Reviews, Demand Reviews, Supply Reviews and LoB Reviews
• Security Clearance
• Why join us
• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance : All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning : Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks : Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportun

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Job Description: Salary - £82,000 to £95,000 Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

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