About the role
Your Impact
Join Leonardo at a pivotal time of growth, where your engineering leadership will play a key role in shaping and delivering future capabilities.
Leonardo is seeking motivated and experienced Project Engineering Leads (PELs) to join our Electronic Warfare Line of Business within the Integrated Mission Solutions (IMS) sector. This is a permanent opportunity to support the continued growth of the Mission Support Products Integrated Project Team (IPT).
As a Project Engineering Lead, you will report to the Project Engineering Manager (PEM ) and work closely with the Chief Engineer to provide engineering leadership and management across a range of programmes. You will be responsible for identifying, developing, delivering, and supporting technical solutions that meet the needs of our customers and end users.
The role combines both contract delivery and business-winning activities, providing engineering direction, leadership, and management across multiple customers and stakeholders.
Based at our Luton office, this position offers hybrid working, with a nominal requirement of 2-3 days per week on site. There will also be opportunities to travel within the UK, collaborating with Leonardo teams, customers, end users, and industry partners, with occasional overseas travel as required.
What you’ll do as a Project Engineering Lead
As a Project Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for the day-to-day engineering management of projects, ensuring delivery against technical, schedule, and budget commitments.
Typical responsibilities include:
Leading the engineering and engineering bid activities of projects, ensuring technical excellence, effective schedule management, and budget control.
Managing cross-site, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and understood.
Developing and supporting engineering team members through mentoring, coaching, objective setting, and performance appraisals.
Building strong and effective relationships with customers and industry partners to successfully deliver project capabilities.
Establishing and maintaining effective communication across the Engineering IPT, Proj…
