ITEA Manager

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ITEA Manager

ITEA Manager - Purpose of the Role

Hudson Shribman is leading a major government program focused on Airborne Communications Mission Systems and a Service Support solution. The ITEA manager will oversee all aspects of Test and Acceptance for the current phase and plan for subsequent phases. This role involves close collaboration with customers, suppliers, and internal experts to ensure the efficient and cost-effective fulfillment of contractual obligations.
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ITEA Manager - Key Responsibilities:
•    Plan, execute and gain acceptance for all customer requirements
•    Main Point of Contact for Test and Acceptance with the customers and suppliers
•    Agreeing Means of Compliance with customers and suppliers
•    Planning, organising and delivering successful test events
•    Agreeing on test issues  and remediation plans with customers and suppliers
•    Managing the verification team and facilities to deliver the required outcomes
•    Assessing and bidding new work, including change requests
•    Opportunities for growth into Head of Engineering roles or other key roles within the Engineering team

Outline of Competencies:

A proactive and driven nature.
Encourage, motivate and provide support to the wider programme team by maintaining enthusiasm and passion collaboration skills.
Foster a culture of being requirements and delivery focused
A natural team player with an optimistic attitude
Challenge-oriented and/or self-motivating
Ability to quickly grasp new technical concepts.
Attention to detail. 
Good organisational skills.
 
Qualifications and Experience required:

A recognised technology-based degree with a good underlying understanding of relevant technologies and basic scientific methods.
Experience of delivering government contractual obligations via ITEA
Team working ability, with good interpersonal skills and commitment to project success and drive to deliver on time.
Good understanding of engineering processes and procedures.
Experience with MS Office toolsets.
Experience of systems engineering toolsets would be advantageous, such as requirements management (Polarion), modelling and simulation (SYSML)
Experience in System Integration, Qualification and Verification for Aerospace Applications.
Systems engineering design experience, such as architectural design and requirements analysis including decomposition to hardware/software would be advantageous.
Knowledge of configuration management, interface control design, reliability engineering, safety, and security desirable. 

Desirable

Contractual acceptance, on time and budge
 All applicants must have or be able to obtain Security Clearance.

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