Engineering Project Lead

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Job description

We are investigators, problem solvers, brilliant thinkers, relentless explorers, we are Ultra!

Ultra Cyber

At Ultra Cyber we protect highly sensitive information, working with nations worldwide to help ensure their information is secure as possible. Our engineers work on the most difficult cybersecurity challenges to protect our national security and critical infrastructure; we strive to protect what matters.

It's why we come to work. It's what we are good at.

At Ultra Cyber you will be:

* Given a wealth of development opportunities with a clear career plan in-mind

* Provided with internal and external training opportunities

* Work on state-of-the-art Cyber Security equipment within high-grade crypto and information assurance

* Part of an agile organisation, with the ability to make a real difference

* Involved in multiple domains and projects, throughout the engineering lifecycle

* Work in a dynamic environment, with the ability to make significant personal impact

* Have exposure to all functional and business areas, with opportunities to broaden your knowledge

* In an environment where talent is recognised and promoted

Scope of role

* Provision of engineering leadership to ensure that programs are delivered to cost and schedule.

* Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes

Key Responsibilities:

* Responsible for the executing the engineering delivery of projects of a variety of sizes.

* Supports the Program Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule.

* Identifies resource needs in good time for their introduction to the project; works with the discipline leads to ensure that resource requirements are generally always met; provides input to longer term recruitment strategy (skills gap identification etc.); adapts to manage resource problems on project.

* Ensures that engineering artefacts for their project are delivered to budget and schedule; strives to beat schedule and deliver improved margin.

* Quickly and clearly raises resource concerns or any other impediments to project success; proposes and manages solutions to those; requires only limited support in this activity.

* Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to project.

* Is responsible for the engineering budget on the project and both monitors and forecasts costs to completion; seamlessly implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; requires only limited support in this activity.

* Coordinates all engineering resources on the project; performs day-today tasking. · Provides any input required for business and customer reporting; proposes improved means of monitoring and reporting (metrics); represents the company on their project with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.

* Ensures that all engineering work carried out on the project is pre-authorised; proposes solutions that are cheaper/quicker than the obvious.

* Proposes improvements and drives innovation to increase project margin.

* Effectively resolves any concerns with other functions (e.g. production engineering, test systems); optimises business needs across all functions.

* Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual

Role requirements

* Able to travel within UK

* Clean driving license

* Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance.

Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits including:

- Bonus - performance related

- 25 days' holiday with the option to buy an extra 5

- 4 x Life Assurance Cover

- Flexible working hours

- Early Finish on a Friday

- Pension Contribution

- Our Ultra Select Benefits package including - subsidised gym & retail, childcare vouchers, cycle to work schemes, etc.

Our Team

We trust and empower each other; we love to celebrate success and we win as a team. Together, we embrace change and we're never satisfied until we've done what we said we'd do.

Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.

We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible