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SalaryYou will have the opportunity to work for a leading engineering specialist who solves the toughest problems in marine, space, aeronautics, defence and cyberspace engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of their customers worldwide. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.
About the job:
Our client currently requires a Ultra-wide band Verification and Validation Manager to oversee the V&V Test Team’s activities. The role will include;
Programme Planning
- Approval of an appropriate suite of plans, standards and procedures for the V&V work, and the approval or rejection of requests to deviate from defined standards and procedures
- Guidance in creation of management plans
- Approve and signatory of Management plans
- Review and approval V&V aspects of Development Estimates
- Attend project/phase kick off meetings
- Ensure that the Engineering teams agree with estimates that support the approval of Programme EACs
- Ensure that Programme plans are realistic and are kept up to date with Engineering team agreement
- Ensure positive work, improvements, actions and opportunities are reported
- Ensure actions/risks are listed and reported if any escalation is required, proactively chase actions to conclusion
- Lead regular audits against management plans, standards and procedures
- Lead the decision making processes for exceptional activities or circumstances, and deviations
- Lead risk reviews, programme reviews and design reviews as required
- Ensure all programme teams are adequately resourced with suitable trained SQEP engineers
- Ensure you and team leader are proactive for recruitment
- Ensure Team Skills and Competencies are maintained.
- Conduct regular people management: team meetings, 1-1s, career discussions, mentoring, coaching
- Conduct regular continuous improvement team discussion to improve efficiency.
- Drive for industry best practice for engineering verification, validation and qualification.
- Ensuring designs comply with approved management plans, using approved design methods, competent personnel, effective delivery systems and design processes
- Act as a member or chairman of Design Review boards – support decision making, and ensuring actions relevant to V&V are closed in a timely manner.
- Ensuring design deliverables are appropriately reviewed and checked by competent persons via single discipline and inter-discipline checks
- Approval of appointment of technical leads
- Periodic self-assessment, review and audit of the V&V team
About you:
As a UWB Verification & Validation Manager your skills and qualifications will include:
- Must be a confident people manager with demonstrable experience, previous people management experience is essential.
- Experience and background full understanding of systems engineering and delivering complex (safety) projects through the V model.
- Understanding of environmental qualification and test methods from Def Stan 00-35
- The understanding and experience of using Agile techniques.
- Good understanding of software test tools and script languages (e.g. Python).
- Experience to automated Test Benches
- Experience in text and calculation programs
- Rigorous, well organised, team worker, good interpersonal abilities.
- Confident communicator, both written and verbal.
- Highly organised, self-managing, able to manage multiple activities at any one time.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to engage effectively with all audiences/stakeholders at all levels in the organisation.
UWB Verification & Validation Manager
New Malden
Competitive salary
Permanent
Keywords: People Manager, V&V Manager, Systems engineer, V&V, Verification, Validation, Integrated systems, Requirements, Defence.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, to SC level.
This is a permanent position.
