Portfolio Delivery Team Lead
// Role Summary
Lead the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio engineering activities, managing technical risks, obsolescence, and commonality while steering product delivery and innovating new ways of working.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage engineering activities for the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio.
- Oversee technical risks, obsolescence, and engineering commonality.
- Develop and implement innovative ways of working.
- Improve efficiency of Commonality, Modularity & Reuse.
- Liaise between Functions, Equipment Teams, and Centres.
// Role Specification
As a Systems Engineer at MBDA, you can be involved in all aspects of missile systems development, from early concept studies to series production and in-service support. A role in the Portfolio Delivery Team will offer exposure of the full product lifecycle and will help you develop your career by gaining an excellent understanding of the business, its operations, and its projects.
The Delivery Lead Role:
The Delivery Lead is responsible for the management of Portfolio engineering activities associated with the delivery of the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio, including management of technical risks, obsolescence and engineering commonality. The role demands a motivated individual with broad technical knowledge, and good influencing skills. It would suit someone who is looking for a balance of technical understanding and broader business delivery aspects. The successful individual will get exposure to wider Portfolio factors such as financial efficiencies, operational performance, exportability and Freedom of Action to the UK MoD.
- A chance to use the knowledge and experience you have gained to help steer and shape the delivery of the MBDA UK portfolio of products.
- The opportunity to develop and implement new ways of working, building on past successes but with the freedom to innovate.
- Work with projects to improve the efficiency of Commonality, Modularity & Reuse and reduce hardships.
- Review predicted and measured benefits to ensure realism from an engineering point of view.
- Work with internal teams to ensure that programme plans for dependencies exist.
- Act as the point of contact between Functions, Equipment Teams, Centres.