Head of Engineering Projects

Head of Engineering Projects focuses on strategic leadership: provide strategic direction and oversight across all programmes, motivating, leading and inspiring engineering teams to achieve excellence.

What the role involves

• Strategic leadership: Provide strategic direction and oversight across all programmes, motivating, leading and inspiring engineering teams to achieve excellence.
• Driving Innovation: Champion the evolution of engineering capability, by driving the adoption of cutting‑edge technologies, modern methodologies.
• Process enhancements that improve efficiency, quality, and competitiveness.
• Develop robust succession plans to ensure continued future success.
• Build effective partnerships: Forge strong working relationships with internal teams, external stakeholders, customers and partners to ensure alignment and seamless delivery across.
• Maintaining Quality & Compliance: Guarantee adherence to safety, security, and quality standards, across the Engineering teams.

Confirmed role details

• Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands.
• The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market.
• Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.

Known job details

• Pay: £82,000 to £95,000