Engineering Delivery Manager - EVA

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REQ ID: 97677JOB TITLE: Engineering Delivery Manager - EVASALARY: £55,200 - £82,000POSTING END DATE: 11/11/2022LOCATION: GaydonWe’re re-examining our vehicles and what a vehicle means in the emerging world of automation, connectedness, electrification and the shared economy. New ideas, new technology, and new approaches to mobility are our business. Join a team of next generation thinkers.The OpportunityThis role is an opportunity to be at the cutting edge, developing Jaguar Land Rover’s technology platform, including its next generation of assisted & automated driving system, infotainment, connectivity and body systems, acting as a technical project manager. This role will manage and enable the delivery of projects and their interdependencies, it will involve senior stakeholder management, prioritising activities and directing and managing others to complete activities on time, to cost and quality targets. It will involve evaluating (and evolving) the assessment of maturity of the architecture, ideally based on experience working with vehicles’ electrical architecture (including hardware, software and systems development). As part of this team, you will drive a key area of JLR’s transformation of its digital platform, covering both on-vehicle technologies and off-board cloud infrastructure, and be at the cutting edge of JLR’s development into an Agile, tech focussed organisation.In this role you will join a welcoming, inclusive team, focussed on the project management of the vehicle architecture and operating the Agile organisation for Jaguar Land Rovers ‘Digital Product Platform’ function (covering >2,500 staff globally). As a team, we operate as an Agile squad ourselves, to operate as efficiently and collaboratively as possible. In this role you will act as a product owner, providing direction to the team to ensure our project management activities deliver the greatest value to the business.Key Performance Indicators

• Programme gateways successfully delivered to pre-agreed timing plan, on budget and to necessary level of quality
• Risks categorised and actively mitigated to support delivery
• Resolution of disconnects between architecture delivery timing and vehicle programme requirements

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities

• Deliver projects utilising project management techniques to ensure the delivery and achievement of planned outputs to support the achievement of strategic business objectives, including using Agile ceremonies and processes to deliver
• Evaluation of the architecture/ programme technical status at key milestones, assessing any risks and delivery gaps
• Provide leadership and line management to member of the project management team
• Coordinate cross functional teams to develop the tools and processes necessary to manage the programme, to ensure they are efficient
• Take ownership of key strategic projects and work streams; from scoping to delivery and including cross-functional engagement and stakeholder management, ensuring quality, cost and timescales are prioritised as appropriate
• Lead process improvement activities to ensure PM team activities are efficient in enabling the delivery by Digital Product Platform and other Engineering Technical Centres
• Plan for and manage project risks, issues and dependencies to maximise likelihood of project success, escalating upwards where necessary
• Partner with the operational business to understand current processes and to document and prioritise requirements for changes and additions
• Management of required Governance, including milestone reporting, project status reporting, financial reporting and risk and issue management
• Undertake and support scenario planning as required
• Effective stakeholder management and contracting to ensure projects add value and are aligned to stakeholder expectations
• Where required support the management and delivery of business change arising from the project and transition of project outputs into service delivery via appropriate stakeholder engagement and communications
• Updating senior managers/board of when projects don’t go according to plan, specifying what has gone wrong and what plan is in place to resolve the problem
• Management of resources that are required for specific projects, making sure that the right people are doing the right job at the right time, have the necessary training and skills to fulfil their role in the project and provide support, advice and guidance to them as necessary
• Regularly review lessons learnt from projects, act on these where appropriate and share these with others to support continuous improvement
• The point of contact of any queries/ideas/problems that arise from the project
• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Key Interactions

• Purchasing – Programme purchasing team
• Finance – Programme Finance representative
• Engineering chiefs from relevant areas
• Quality – Programme quality senior manager
• Manufacturing – Programme manufacturing team

Knowledge, Skills And ExperienceEssential:

• Previous extensive experience of working in a Project Management role with a track record of successful delivery
• Experience of project managing or development of vehicle electrical architecture hardware/software/systems
• Proven Stakeholder Management expertise, specifically the ability to confidently advise and influence senior stakeholders
• Commercially astute with an ability to understand the business function that this role supports, including proven experience of collating and analysing business cases and their associated metrics (ROI, NPV etc.)
• Methodical detailed approach to work
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify how one issue can impact on another and put in place the required interventions through support or from own knowledge base
• Ability to manage significant risks and issues
• Negotiation and adaptability
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred

Desirable:

• Experience of working in Agile environment, preferably operating with experience of Agile at Scale
• Good working understanding of basics of vehicle electrical content and feature delivery management (Electrical Distribution Systems, networks, systems engineering practice etc.)
• Relevant qualification and/or training in a recognised appropriate Project Management methodology
• Experience of both vehicle programme, including key vehicle programme milestones, requirements etc
• Understanding of factors driving software delivery quality
• Experience of Agile development methods, preferably including a form of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE)

Personal ProfileEssential:

• An effective team player, actively leads, develops and supports team members
• An individual with a customer first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.
• A good communicator who can communicate complex ideas
• An individual who is results driven, demonstrates tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment
• An individual who ensures actions are followed through to completion, using processes and their direct reports to track as necessary
• An individual with the ability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term planning
• An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs

Desirable:

• An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style
• An individual who enables speed in decision making through establishing alignment, clarity, appropriate resources and sense of urgency whilst bringing others along

#LISO WHY US?Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan, private medical cover and performance related bonus scheme. As a manager, you’ll also be able to select one of our luxury premium vehicles to lease at a fraction of the cost. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.