Description:
The Chief Engineer is a highly experienced engineer with in-depth experience of the full project lifecycle and the associated governance requirements. The Chief Engineer provides oversight for multiple large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects, within Ultra Cyber, ranging from tens of £k to several £m. Responsibilities include assurance of project adherence to both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. safety, conformance, quality), and oversight to ensure high quality design that is developed in accordance with the required security aspects.
Key Responsibilities
- Business Development
- Maintain visibility of upcoming bids and opportunities
- Work with BD to build proposal and costings
- Review technical proposals for deliverability
- Contribute towards the alignment of Ultra Cyber Business Strategy, the underpinning Technical Strategy and the engineering plan to deliver it, articulating the shared understanding of the constraints
- Technical Governance of Bids
- At bid stage, agree an appropriate engineering design process for a proposed project and ensure that it is appropriately documented, consulting with the relevant Heads of Discipline
- Ensure compliance with relevant and contractual, international, national and local regulations/legislation is considered when bidding
- Support BD gate review process to ensure all engineering considerations, risks, and opportunities have been considered.
- Assure estimates for bids, providing sign-off against deliverability
- Technical Governance of Projects
- During project delivery, assure that agreed engineering design process is followed
- Ensure analysis completed regarding relevant and contractual, international, national and local regulations/legislation and requirements are included as appropriate on projects
- Chair Engineering Design Reviews, acting as Gate Keeper to ensure progression only with well understood and acceptable levels of technical risk and technical debt
- Oversee management of technical risks
- Review project engineering metrics, supporting the project team in preparation and delivery of Technical Project Reviews
- Assure projects and products meet the required performance and quality
- Accountable for Project Engineering Change Control
- Review project engineering documentation, setting the bar for quality of design documentation
- Approve technical documents for release, according to the DCRAM (Document Configuration Review and Approval Matrix)
- Provide Design Assurance, acting as signatory on DDP (Declaration of Design Performance), Technical File and Safety Checklist as required
- Customer/stakeholder point of contact for Engineering aspects.
- Provides sounding board for projects (security, process, technical issues…)
- Resolve/facilitate resolution of engineering conflict on project
- Escalate issues through Engineering chain
- Responsible for progressing security concerns
- Security Adviser to the project to:
- assure adherence to the Security Aspects Letter (SAL)
- provide guidance on the appropriateness of the SAL
- Provide Safety assurance through governance of the engineering development process
- Act as Authority interface
A Chief Engineer is also expected to provide wider Engineering impact through:
- Mentoring of senior engineers
- Working with BD & Innovation to provide input to technical strategy
- Capturing project/project knowledge from Lessons Learnt (formal or informal) and inputting into SQEP plans