Engineering Manager - Power & Test Equipment

Date Posted

2026-10-08

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Glenrothes, Fife

Position Role Type

Hybrid

Engineering Manager - Power & Test Equipment

Glenrothes, Scotland | Hybrid Working (Minimum 3 Days On Site)
Travel to Livingston and occasional visits to Harlow

Lead the teams powering the future of defence technology.

At RTX, we're tackling some of the world's most complex aerospace and defence challenges. As the world's largest aerospace and defence company, our people develop innovative technologies that help protect nations, defend freedoms, and create a safer future.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager - Power & Test Equipment to lead a multi-disciplinary engineering function responsible for delivering world-class Power, CAS and Test Solutions. This is a senior leadership opportunity where you'll shape engineering strategy, develop high-performing teams, and influence the successful delivery of mission-critical programmes.

The Opportunity

As Engineering Manager, you'll provide leadership across Systems, Electronics, Software, Mechanical Engineering and Test disciplines, ensuring programmes are delivered successfully from concept through to deployment and in-service support.

You'll work closely with Programme Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality and Commercial teams to drive technical excellence, delivery performance and engineering capability, while serving as a key member of the engineering leadership team in Scotland.

This role is about more than programme delivery. It's about building an engineering culture where people thrive, innovation flourishes, and teams consistently deliver exceptional results for our customers.

What You'll Be Doing

Leadership & People

• Lead, inspire and develop a diverse team of engineers and technical specialists
• Create a values-driven culture focused on collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement
• Coach and mentor engineers, technical leads and emerging leaders
• Drive recruitment, retention, succession planning and career development across the engineering function

Programme & Technical Delivery

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple programmes and product lines
• Act as the key escalation point for technical, resource and programme challenges
• Ensure the successful development, delivery and lifecycle support of Power and Test Equipment solutions
• Support product transition into manufacturing and long-term sustainment

Stakeholder & Business Leadership

• Partner with Senior Leadership, Programme Management and Functional Leaders to align priorities and resources
• Present programme status, risks, opportunities and strategic capability requirements to senior stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with customers and cross-functional teams to drive successful outcomes
• Contribute to engineering strategy, technology roadmaps and organisational capability planning

Operational Excellence

• Drive improvements in engineering processes, tools and ways of working
• Manage engineering resources, budgets and investment priorities
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and Service teams to optimise product performance and customer satisfaction

What You'll Bring

Essential Experience

Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering complex power, test equipment or mission-critical products

Strong track record of building high-performing teams and positive engineering cultures

Experience leading within a matrix organisation and influencing senior stakeholders

Solid understanding of systems engineering, product development lifecycles and design assurance

Broad technical knowledge across:

• Systems Engineering
• Electronics Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Reliability Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering

Experience managing engineering resources across multiple concurrent programmes

Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills

Proven ability to develop, coach and mentor engineering talent

Commercial and financial awareness, including budget ownership and resource planning.

Desirable Experience

• Aerospace, defence, power systems, test equipment or other highly regulated industries
• Knowledge of military, aerospace or industry engineering standards
• Experience leading engineering transformation, organisational change and continuous improvement initiatives

Why RTX?

This is an opportunity to join a business where innovation, collaboration and purpose come together. You'll have the chance to influence strategy, lead talented engineering teams, and deliver technologies that support critical national and global missions.

If you're a people-focused engineering leader who thrives on developing teams, driving performance and delivering complex engineering solutions, we'd love to hear from you.

What we offer:

• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year

For this role the successful hire will need to be a permanent UK resident and successfully complete a baseline (BPSS) security and background check.

This position is classified as

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee's personal responsibility.

Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead project teams.

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