Job title: Engineering Manager – Bidding
Location: Christchurch - We offer a range of hybrid and hybrid working arrangements - please chat with your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: £67,500
What you’ll be doing:
- Managing bid resource to support delivery of engineering commitments
- Ensuring engineering governance is planned and managed effectively
- Oversight of capability and solution development in compliance with requirements and legislation
- Proposal writing & reviewing, ensuring bids are competitive and deliverable
- Identifying risks and proposing mitigations
- Presenting engineering estimates and undertaking design to cost activities
- Oversight of technical relationships with key stakeholders
- Support the Programme Engineering Manager in regular reviews and upward reporting activities
- Building and performance manage effective teams that embrace change and seek continual improvement
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Previous engineering management experience on campaigns and early lifecycle projects within the IT domain
- Ideally qualified with STEM degree or IT equivalent qualifications with some defence industry or military experience
- Bidding experience including Proposal writing & Competitor assessment
- Identifying and managing technical risks
Desirable:
- Developing & reviewing supplier statements of work
- Experience in analysing customer requirements and understanding balance of compliance to requirements against cost
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Defence Information team:
BAE Systems Defence Information division provides business and mission critical highly secure, assured information systems and services, with a mission to realise information advantage for their customers.
As part of this growth, Defence Information are pleased to announce that we are seeking a talented Engineering Manager. As an Engineering Manager you will work with the Programme Engineering Manager to deliver effective oversite of campaigns, bids and capability development to enable the delivery of high-quality solutions to our customers. Successful applicants will join the business in line with their plans to grow their defence information capability at their busy and secure site in South East Dorset.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”
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