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Aviation Delivery Manager – Engineering and Design
Costain Group PLC. Head delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across multiple project sites and frameworks in the London and South East regional area .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing multi-disciplinary engineering services within the UK Aviation sector, ensuring compliance with technical and regulatory standards while leading teams to deliver complex projects on time and within budget.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Chartered Engineer StatusAviation Sector ExperienceComplex Project ManagementEngineering Design ExperienceTechnical Quality Assurance
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Hard Skills
Engineering DesignChange ManagementResource ForecastingTechnical ComplianceBudget MonitoringRisk ManagementQuality ControlProcess ModellingDesign WorkflowsDigital Integration
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationProblem-SolvingAccountability
Tools & Technologies
Information Management SystemsTechnical Management SystemsGovernance ProcessesDesign Assurance ProcessesConstruction Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
Degree in Engineering DisciplineChartered Engineer (ICE, IMechE, IStructE, IET, CIOB, CIHT)
Industry Keywords
Aviation SectorEngineering ServicesProject LifecycleMulti-Disciplinary TeamsUK Engineering StandardsClient OpportunitiesProcurement StrategiesContract ManagementTechnical RisksScope Variation
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Head delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering services across multiple project sites and frameworks in the London and South East regional area
- Collaborate with Engineering Discipline Leads to shape value propositions
- Lead delivery of engineering services across Costain’s Aviation project portfolio through effective deployment of people, processes, and systems
- Collaborate with Discipline Managers and Aviation Sector teams to forecast the engineering services pipeline
- Forecast future resource requirements across multiple disciplines and inform recruitment
- Align team skillsets and deployed resources with current and future project demands and complexity
- Lead delivery across Aviation projects and contracts, managing Project Engineering Manager teams
- Ensure scopes, service requirements, budgets, and programmes are defined and adhered to
- Monitor progress against budget and programme and report to senior management, sectors, and clients
- Ensure technically compliant, quality-controlled designs and completion of technical and regulatory assurance activities
- Contribute to corporate technical management systems and digital integration
- Resolve complex technical and delivery issues
- Identify client opportunities and coordinate engineering contributions to value propositions and bids
- Monitor engineering budgets and resource requirements for tender activities and comply with governance processes
- Capture and communicate technical risks and opportunities
- Oversee design change and minimise unnecessary scope variation
- Develop a design delivery culture focused on ownership and accountability
- Embed lessons learned and continuous improvement across engineering services
Requirements
What you’ll need- Degree qualification in a relevant engineering discipline
- Chartered Engineer status (ICE, IMechE, IStructE, IET, CIOB, CIHT, or other)
- Background in managing delivery of engineering services on complex projects across the programme lifecycle within the UK Aviation sector
- Experience managing complex engineering scopes to budget and programme, including effective change management
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams, workload, resource demand, and skillsets
- Significant engineering design experience within the relevant engineering discipline
- Authority in multiple design and construction systems and process models, such as plan of work
- Experience as a technical manager reviewing technical quality and compliance of design deliverables
- Understanding of key technical concepts across civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering design disciplines
- Experience setting up or running design, assurance, and reporting processes on large projects
- Understanding of Aviation sector clients, challenges, opportunities, and procurement or contract strategies
- Desirable: experience setting up, leading, or operating project engineering delivery aspects such as design workflows, information management systems, and quality controls
- Ability to occasionally work at multiple locations throughout the UK depending on contract needs
- Security clearance required
- Driving required
Benefits
Comp & perks- Hybrid working arrangement with flexible remote working
- Well-being promoted through flexible working
- Permanent employment option
- Fixed-term contract option