Chief Engineer & Technology Transition Manager

Leonardo is a global high–tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK.

This role offers the opportunity to be part of a team, working at the forefront of technology, developing new and innovative design solutions; that achieve business benefit and transformational working, applying the latest technology to deliver new solutions across the Leonardo UK business.

In performing this role, the candidates will be required to engage and foster links with wider Industry and academia, looking for opportunities and ways the core Leonardo business can adopt and exploit both technology and business innovation for the future. With careful selection of collaborative partners, the objective is to provide a service that will accelerate conceptual design phase, and with industry & academia assistance provide Leonardo UK accelerators into our core product & service portfolios.

For this is senior appointment, we are looking to recruit a candidate with a successful background in the technical leadership of technology engineering; taking low TRL designs through concept and feasibility phases.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate previous experience of leading the development and implementation of technology research, scouting and proposed implementation.

If you meet the essential criteria for this role defined below, we would love to hear from you:

Senior technology leadership experience and management of technology, working in low TRL designs.
Demonstrable skills in developing and implementing strategic technologies into a business.
Experience of leading a wider team, good stakeholder engagement skills, both internally and externally.
A proven track record in developing and motivating technology adoption.
Previous experience of working to Executive level – including reporting / presentations etc.
Experience of working in collaboration with external partners and suppliers.WHAT YOU'LL GET

Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options.
Custom working: The role will be a mixture of home based and onsite.
Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 8 flexi days.
Flexible benefits: Our company–funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.To find out about all of our Company benefits please visit: https://(url removed)/en/people–careers/life–at–leonardo/company–benefits

Key Responsibility Areas

The successful candidate will work closely within multidisciplinary integrated project teams to provide technical leadership and expertise in the design and development of solutions to unique and challenging problems to support our Electronics, Helicopters and Cyber business, as well as looking at adjacent markets.

Responsible for the Engineering definition and content of the approved research programmes.
Accountable for defining the Engineering skills and resources required to execute the programmes.
Responsible for the Engineering delivery aspects to schedule and cost.
Responsible for maintaining the design process and ensuring there is an known and planned path to exploit the technology (Technology Routemap).
Responsible for the smooth transition of Concept & Feasibility (low TRL projects) into project exploitation.You must be self–motivated, able to take the initiative in customer discussions, be an effective team player who will lead a team, facilitate team members, and have efficient time management skills enabling you to work well either as part of a team or on your own.

You will be involved in various stages of technology & innovation from identification of new and innovative technologies or techniques, developing the concept through to prototyping of hardware design, integration and demonstration testing.

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required

You will have a degree in engineering or suitable science–based subject and a strong engineering leadership qualities with experience in :–

Hardware and software development,
Systems modelling & simulation techniques
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
You will have excellent numerate problem–solving skills and an aptitude for lateral thinking.
The role will require strong communication skills, to convey complex subjects to peers and junior team members.
You must be a create thinker, have mental agility and speed of operation, to explore, make, re–make connections in pursuit of the creative concepts.
You should have a track record of facilitating and building good working relationships with team members and external members, e.g. suppliers and customers