Technical Delivery Manager

Cubic

Auckland
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago

Business Unit:Cubic DefenseCompany Details:Job Summary: This is a technical project delivery role responsible for leading the engineering team, driving execution, communicating needs and progressing the engineering solutions for projects and products. The Technical Delivery Manager, acting hand in hand with Program Managers, is responsible for managing the program’s engineering-related tasks, and ensuring that engineering solutions are proposed, implemented and delivered to the agreed scope, budget, and schedule. This position will be required to provide engineering leadership to development teams, and lead investigation of engineering issues in the field and development laboratories. The role will require familiarity with devices, back office systems (including financial transactions, reconciliation, payment processing, and customer services) and mobile applications. This position works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.
This role will report to the CDNZ Chief Engineer or Director of Engineering.Job Details:Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Manages project engineering staff; motivates, delegates, coaches and trains subordinates. Adopts and enforces the best project engineering and control account management practices
Delivers engineering solutions that meet budget, schedule and agreed scope.
Provides engineering leadership for new or ongoing projects with team sizes typically of ten or under engineers.
Collaborates with engineers, operations, program management, product management, and other stakeholders to come up with solutions, and transitioning from project to operations.
Works with project management and schedulers to define and maintain engineering project schedules and plans using tools such as P6.
Works with project management and financial analysts to define and maintain engineering budgets and monitor cost and earned value status using tools such as SAP.
Leads cross-team collaboration using tools such as Confluence, MS Planner and MS Teams.
Establishes and follows engineering development plans.
Defines and solves problems in a persistent and systematic fashion, taking an engineering lead on defect management in accordance with engineering processes and be hands-on with troubleshooting exercises when required.
Manages technical presentations, discussions, workshops and gate reviews.
Manages the engineering and technical review of documents and work products.
Monitors proper design documentation and methodology are developed by each engineering functional team.
Ensures project and development teams are properly appraised of status, schedule and scope.
Manages and monitors engineering development work activities and status using tools such as P6 and Jira.
Monitors testing and formal requirements sign-off.
Supports defect identification and resolution, and monitors test status using manual or automated tools.
Works collaboratively with internal departments, customer representatives, third party suppliers and other stakeholders.
Establishes and reviews engineering statements of work and work breakdown structures in conjunction with project plans and schedules.
Supports the development of engineering estimates using appropriate methods such as bottom-up and parametric techniques.
Monitors/coordinates software integration and software/hardware integration in integration and test/QA environments.
Assists with and develop plans for supplier software releases based on customer and stakeholder requirements.
Provide reports on engineering and test metrics related to the execution of the project.

Minimum Job Requirements:Four-year college degree in Engineering (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline) or Business Operations, plus eight years of related experience. Experience in creating, analysing, documenting and testing system and subsystem designs. Mental ability to perform engineering problem solving and analytical tasks. Familiarity with project management principles. Must be able to work under project deadlines and be able to establish and maintain engineering project schedules and cost budgets. Must have strong organisational and interpersonal skills. Must communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form. Requires strong team building and multi-tasking skills. Must be a pro-active leader who is decisive and action-oriented, and can liaise effectively with project teams, project managers and customers (internal and external). Project management qualifications, such as PMI PMP, is desired.The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.Worker Type:Employee

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