VP Engineering & Programme Management

Competitive Salary

Essex

Our client a market leader within the Defence / Space industry is currently looking for a VP of Engineering & Programmes to Review, Analyse, and evaluate business procedures in order to improve day-to-day operations, ensuring smooth processes

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  With an emphasis on product development, program management, and the expansion of overall system engineering capabilities, the VP of Engineering & Program Management position is responsible for supervising the creation, execution, and enhancement of Space Imaging engineering and program execution procedure
• s.The role necessitates technological creativity, leadership, programmatic, communication, and global team-building abilities in addition to broad engineering domain competence in hardware, mechanical, optical, firmware, software, image processing, and testin
• g.The chosen applicant will be a motivated, high-energy person with experience in the space industry who has demonstrated project delivery success in a senior position. They will have examples of comprehensive change management as well as experience expanding an organisatio

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Primary Duties & Responsibiliti

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  Work with Product Management, Operations, and Sales leaders to develop the company's technological innovation and development strat
• egy;Lead a team of director-level reports, emphasising timely and cost-effective execut
• ion;Reorganise and bolster the larger team as needed to ensure alignment with future goals and growth commitme
• nts;Contribute to the creation and delivery of company and functional objecti
• ves;Introduce pertinent KPIs to measure and improve performance against those objectives and customer commitme
• nts;Provide technical direction and oversight for both engineering and program organisational developm
• ent.Job Qualificati
• ons:Extensive demonstrable experience in successful change management and organisational transforma
• tionBachelor's degree (or higher) in related discipline (Electrical Engineering, Computer Scie
• nce)10+ years of Engineering experi
• ence10+ years of Management experi
• ence10+ years of Programme delivery experi
• enceSpace industry experi
• enceStrong experience with diverse engineering disciplines (Mech, Hardware, FPGA, Softw
• are)Financial acumen and strong experience with managing budgets and delivering business cases (R&D, CapEx, P&am

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