Engineering Manager
// Role Summary
Lead engineering control and lifecycle support for critical equipment at QinetiQ's Environmental Test Centre in Shoeburyness, ensuring safe, compliant, and cost-effective operations.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage engineering control of equipment at the Environmental Test Centre, Shoeburyness.
- Oversee equipment lifecycle support, ensuring safety, compliance, and cost-effectiveness.
- Develop and maintain Through Life Support Strategies (TLSS) and asset baselines.
- Ensure adherence to engineering, quality, safety, and regulatory standards.
- Lead and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to manage engineering risks and assurance activities.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Join QinetiQ as an Engineering Manager at our Shoeburyness site and play a key role in creating the future of defence technology. You will be responsible to the Group Lead for the overall engineering control of equipment at the Environmental Test Centre, acting as an active member of the operating team to deliver safe and compliant facilities.
Your Responsibilities
In this dynamic and fast-paced environment, your key accountabilities will include:
- Leading the engineering management and lifecycle support of critical equipment and facilities, ensuring safe, compliant, and cost-effective operations aligned with business objectives.
- Developing, maintaining, and reviewing Through Life Support Strategies (TLSS), asset baselines, certifications, and change control processes for business and safety-critical systems.
- Ensuring compliance with engineering, quality, safety, and regulatory standards, maintaining risk assessments, statutory inspections, and technical documentation.
- Managing maintenance planning, delivery, and budgets to maximise equipment availability, reliability, and operational performance.
- Providing leadership, technical guidance, and support to engineering teams, contributing to project delivery, design reviews, hazardous activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to manage engineering risks, assurance activities, contractor controls, and business continuity requirements, ensuring the safe and efficient operation of the Environmental Test Centre.
Essential Experience
- Mechanical or Electrical Engineering technical background with relevant industry experience.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams within a regulated, safety-critical, or high-risk environment.
- Strong focus on health, safety, and operational excellence.
- Experience driving continuous improvement and process optimisation initiatives.
- Professional engineering membership or relevant safety qualifications would be advantageous.
Essential Qualifications
- Degree-qualified in an engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
About Shoeburyness
QinetiQ Shoeburyness is a significant test and evaluation facility specialising in defence and security technologies. The site focuses on Environmental Testing, including the evaluation of various ordnance, explosives, and related systems, while implementing measures to ensure testing activities comply with environmental regulations and minimise ecological impact.
Working Hours and Location
This role is 37 hours per week, based fully on-site at our Shoeburyness location.