System Integration Project Planner Lead Engineer

Company: Contechs
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Location: Lighthorne
Job Description:

Position Title: System Integration Project Planner Lead Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon

The Opportunity:

  • The Central Systems Integration (CSI) team is responsible for integrating all customer features and functions into vehicle programmes.
  • The team ensures seamless cross-functional collaboration across all phases of feature, systems, and software delivery, from requirements definition to test execution, enabling controlled and timely introduction of features into target electrical architectures.
  • The System Integration Project Planner Lead Engineer is accountable for the maturity, status, and delivery impact of customer features across vehicle programmes, ensuring readiness for programme gateways and final sign-off.
  • The role translates programme requirements into clear, time-based delivery targets and ensures successful execution through collaboration, risk management, and issue resolution.
  • The role also ensures transparency by consolidating stakeholder inputs into a clear view of feature availability and maturity aligned to programme milestones, while reporting KPIs and risks to stakeholders.

Key Performance Indicators:

  • Understand programme feature content, ensure feature design progression is on track to meet programme requirements;
  • Support timely cascade of feature/function demands to technical domains based on identified programme needs, escalating where appropriate;
  • Facilitate resolution of any feature issues and roadblocks to achieve Final Engineering Sign-off to agreed date;

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

  • Lead timely delivery of vehicle features and remove integration risks and blockers
  • Align engineering domain delivery plans with programme milestones
  • Drive resolution of cross-functional integration issues
  • Collaborate with programme planners and Core VE teams to align plans
  • Identify and communicate dependencies, risks, and delivery glide paths
  • Drive continuous improvement in processes and reporting

Key Interactions

  • Feature & Software Domain Product Owners & Integration Leads
  • System Integration Engineers, System and feature owners (peers leading other platforms)
  • Cross Domain Feature Leaders and Central Systems Integration Functions

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

  • Thorough understanding of the Systems Design Life Cycle – system definition, system architecture development, requirements specification, design reviews, systems integration, system assessment and acceptance;
  • Demonstrated experience of technical analysis and employing best-in-class processes in engineering;
  • Excellent interpersonal skills – able to collaboratively influence delivery teams across the engineering function;
  • Proven ability to interpret and use technical data along with business skills with technical decision-making including risk identification.
  • Good working knowledge of Office 365.
  • Experience of engineering product delivery using project management techniques
  • Experience of programme and project delivery processes including JIRA toolset use
  • Experience in the integration and delivery of electrical, electromechanical or software systems

Personal Profile

  • Demonstrates the Clients’ Creators’ Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact, continually working hard to deliver a modern luxury experience to earn and keep the customers’ trust and loyalty.
  • An individual who is results driven, demonstrates, tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment.
  • Embracing differences, being empathetic, welcoming challenges together empowering each other to deliver.
  • Building trust by speaking openly and honestly, listening attentively, and treating others respectfully.
  • Taking initiative and using failure as an opportunity to learn, our Client develop by giving + seeking honest feedback.
  • Making a difference through our results, our Client innovates and never loses sight of what they want to achieve.
  • An individual who can demonstrate good capability in leading cross functional collaborative groups.
  • An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style
  • A good communicator who is able to communicate directly, clearly and openly to all levels
  • Willingness to work flexibly, in terms of location within the UK and hours (within core business hours).

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Posted: September 15th, 2026