Systems Engineering Manager

RTX Corporation

Harlow, United Kingdom

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Raytheon UK for a Systems Engineering Manager to join our Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) business, working across a range of programmes and R&D studies, developing additional capacity within the Engineering team as a key enabler to the strategic growth of the business.

The role will be based at Raytheon’s Harlow facility and the successful candidate will report directly to the APNT Senior Programme Engineering Manager.

The successful candidate will have access to professional development opportunities and be part of the growing engineering team in Raytheon UK, delivering technical expertise across a wide range of projects to both military and civil customers worldwide.

This role includes:

Managing the APNT System Engineering team (10 Systems Engineers) across programmes;
Leading preparation of technical proposals in responses to bids;
Leading requirements analysis and management tasks – from capturing customer requirements to developing requirement sets for sub-systems & suppliers;
Leading systems design and development tasks – working both internally and closely with the existing supply chain and strategic partnerships to develop technical solutions;
Leading systems integration, verification and validation tasks – from developing sub-system level test specifications, through to generating compliance matrices to allow sign-off of top level systems for delivery;
Defining the systems capabilities aspects of the APNT technology and product roadmaps.

Candidate Requirements

Essential:

Degree in an engineering (or related) subject;
Experience in managing a systems engineering team across the product development lifecycle;
Experience in leading engineering teams in programmes and in technical proposals preparations;
Experience in developing systems engineering capabilities across programmes;
Experience in line management of functional teams;
Excellent communicator, both written and verbally;
Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills;
Willingness to travel throughout UK, Europe and the US;
Must be eligible for MOD security clearance - SC level min.