Chief Engineer

Description

The Chief Engineer is a highly experienced engineer with in-depth experience of the full project lifecycle and the associated governance requirements. The Chief Engineer provides oversight for multiple large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects, within Ultra Cyber, ranging from tens of £k to several £m. Responsibilities include assurance of project adherence to both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. safety, conformance, quality), and oversight to ensure high quality design that is developed in accordance with the required security aspects.

• Business Development
  • Maintain visibility of upcoming bids and opportunities
  • Work with BD to build proposal and costings
  • Review technical proposals for deliverability
  • Contribute towards the alignment of Ultra Cyber Business Strategy, the underpinning Technical Strategy and the engineering plan to deliver it, articulating the shared understanding of the constraints
• Technical Governance of Bids
  • At bid stage, agree an appropriate engineering design process for a proposed project and ensure that it is appropriately documented, consulting with the relevant Heads of Discipline
  • Ensure compliance with relevant and contractual, international, national and local regulations/legislation is considered when bidding
  • Support BD gate review process to ensure all engineering considerations, risks, and opportunities have been considered.
  • Assure estimates for bids, providing sign-off against deliverability
• Technical Governance of Projects
  • During project delivery, assure that agreed engineering design process is followed
  • Ensure analysis completed regarding relevant and contractual, international, national and local regulations/legislation and requirements are included as appropriate on projects
  • Chair Engineering Design Reviews, acting as Gate Keeper to ensure progression only with well understood and acceptable levels of technical risk and technical debt
  • Oversee management of technical risks
  • Review project engineering metrics, supporting the project team in preparation and delivery of Technical Project Reviews
  • Assure projects and products meet the required performance and quality
  • Accountable for Project Engineering Change Control
  • Review project engineering documentation, setting the bar for quality of design documentation
  • Approve technical documents for release, according to the DCRAM (Document Configuration Review and Approval Matrix)
  • Provide Design Assurance, acting as signatory on DDP (Declaration of Design Performance), Technical File and Safety Checklist as required
  • Customer/stakeholder point of contact for Engineering aspects.
  • Provides sounding board for projects (security, process, technical issues…)
  • Resolve/facilitate resolution of engineering conflict on project
  • Escalate issues through Engineering chain
  • Responsible for progressing security concerns
  • Security Adviser to the project to:
    • assure adherence to the Security Aspects Letter (SAL)
    • provide guidance on the appropriateness of the SAL
  • Provide Safety assurance through governance of the engineering development process
  • Act as Authority interface

A Chief Engineer is also expected to provide wider Engineering impact through:

• Mentoring of senior engineers
• Working with BD & Innovation to provide input to technical strategy
• Capturing project/project knowledge from Lessons Learnt (formal or informal) and inputting into SQEP plans

A Chief Engineer may also act as an Independent Chief Engineer on a project, to provide independent oversight, primarily chairing gate reviews but also providing a sounding board for the project Chief Engineer.

A Chief Engineer may also act as a Design Authority on a project, if they have appropriate domain and technical knowledge.

• Confident communicator, both written and verbal
• Highly organised, self-managing, able to manage multiple activities at any one time
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to engage effectively with all audiences/stakeholders at all levels in the organisation
• Degree in an engineering, mathematical or science-based subject or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience in one (or more preferably), software,…