AESAS Engineering and Support Manager

Overview

As Engineering Support Manager, you will lead assurance, quality and compliance activities for the Royal Navy Support Portfolio, driving safe, high-quality engineering services. You will collaborate with contract managers, delivery leads and stakeholders to improve performance, develop teams and promote a proactive safety culture. The role combines governance, data‑driven improvements and customer-facing assurance to support critical defence operations. You will influence engineering excellence across the portfolio and contribute to ongoing growth opportunities.

Pay / Benefits

• 29 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Up to 6% contributory pension
• Performance-related bonus scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Lead assurance, audit and compliance activities to meet regulatory, contractual and operational requirements
• Support delivery of contractual and operational performance targets
• Lead quality and audit programmes ensuring regulatory and contractual compliance
• Support and develop teams to achieve high performance standards
• Champion a positive safety and reporting culture with proactive risk management
• Analyse performance and assurance data to identify trends and improvement opportunities
• Oversee engineering authorisations, competency management and apprentice development
• Support governance, customer assurance and performance reporting across the contract
• Build strong relationships with customers, stakeholders and suppliers for effective service delivery
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Quality Management System and portfolio growth initiatives

Key requirements

• Experience in a military or civil aviation engineering environment
• Strong knowledge of quality, compliance and assurance processes
• Experience conducting audits, investigations and root cause analysis
• Proven leadership with team development experience
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Proactive approach to continuous improvement and operational excellence
• Commitment to safety, compliance and delivering exceptional customer service

• Leadership and people development
• Stakeholder management
• Proactive problem solving
• Quality management and assurance
• Audit and investigation techniques
• Root cause analysis

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