Job Description

Date Posted:

2026-04-02

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Project Engineering Manager

Harlow

Benefits:

• £:Competitive salary

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)

• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension

• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)

• Car/Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)

• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)

• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including HealthCashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others

• Enhanced sick pay

• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

• Private Medical Insurance– dependant on grade

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, jobrequirementor site-specific arrangements.

• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!

• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.

• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology;we'rebuilding a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our Business

As a leading defence and aerospace companyoperatingacross the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilitiesoperatingthroughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

ATMS

Our ATMS business has heritage in the development, manufacture,sustainmentand support of secondary surveillance radar technology. Out technology is relied upon to marshal more than two-thirds of the world’s air traffic due to its precision accuracy and ability to detectaircrafteven within the most crowded airspace. Designed and manufactured in the UK, our products are exported globally to RTX customers in more than 45 countries.

Role&Responsibilities

About the role

We are currently recruiting for a Programme Engineering Manager to join our Air Traffic Management Systems team for the delivery of class leading new and upgraded systems to a global base of customers

As the key IPT (Integrated Programme Team) member for engineering for one or more of our projects.

Required experience

• Proven expertise in managing delivery of complex multi-disciplined development programmes, using discretion in tailoring effectively to meet challenging programme needs.

• Extensive experience in systems engineering and guidance of multidiscipline, high-performance teams (cross-functional experience highly desirable) through engineering development cycle.

• Clear understanding of financial management and impacts on programmes

• Demonstrated competency for strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management.

• Demonstrated competency in relating efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.

• Proven ability to work independently, as well as a member of a team and ability to advise programme teams and stakeholders.

• Broad based technical background with experience in systems design and integration.

• Knowledge of software development and delivery methodologies

• BSc / BEng. in Engineering, Science, or Aeronautical Engineering.

Desirable experience

• Experience within UK/US International defence industry or similar adjacent industry

RTX
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide andcomprisesthree industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland,Walesand Northern Ireland.We’reinvesting in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity,color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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