Junior Programme Engineering Manager Full Time NEW

2026-03-09

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Warminster, Wiltshire

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

About us:

At OMNIA® Training, we’ve brought together some of the UK’s most innovative defence training organisations under one powerful mission: to transform the British Army’s training system and create the best-trained Army in the world.

OMNIA are redefining the British Army’s collective training. To do that, we are looking for the best and brightest minds from across the UK. We are backed by British innovation and powered by world-class experts, like you. OMNIA is at the heart of the UK’s bold Land Industrial Strategy.

The role:

This is more than a job — it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.

You’ll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training and functionally through the Senior Programme Engineering Manager (PEM). Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide governance and progress reporting of the Engineering deliverables for the programme, which includes reporting at various levels.
• Generation, maintenance and review of the engineering development plans and then execution against Raytheon’s standards and aligned to the overall Programme’s needs.
• Creation and governance of accurate Basis of Estimates (BOE) for new work alongside the update of BOE’s for existing work to support planning and the Raytheon UK Estimate At Complete (EAC) process.
• Work package management including planning, tracking and reporting of key performance indicators for the work to be performed, working collaboratively with the Senior PEM, Head of Training Support, Chief Engineer and wider Programme Team.
• Maintain and promote regular updates across the engineering team for task tracking and reporting using the approved tools.
• Report on agreed KPIs monthly.
• Programme adherence to the Engineering resource plan, costs and schedule for the programme deliverables, utilising Earned Value techniques where applicable. Variance and root cause analysis reporting.
• Management, and tasking for internal projects such as tooling delivery, improvement or migration activities
• Support the wider team to identify issues or opportunities and strategize resolution plans to keep to the schedule and budget.
• Risk management for all Engineering deliverables, including effective mitigations and monitoring to reduction of risk to closure.
• Ensure all documentation and deliverables are managed via a Configuration Management / Data Management plan that meets the programme needs.
• Co-ordinating resources and collating responses, following the Company’s corporate governance policies, processes and procedures, including Gate Reviews.
• Managing and maintaining a complete and accurate master skills list for all Engineers.
• Be ‘Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement’.
• Support the team at formal and artefact reviews as necessary.
• Any other duties required to meet the needs of the programme.

Who we are looking for:

We’re after individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’. You’ll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won’t let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you’ll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You won’t necessarily have a military background, but you’ll understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.

The OMNIA Training Junior PEM is central to the Engineering team. Working in tandem with the Senior PEM, the role manages the efforts of a team of engineers with a variety of skills and backgrounds to achieve the required outputs of a complex and challenging programme.

The Junior PEM supports the Programme Leadership Team, and will routinely interact with the other functions, though principally the Programme Management Office, Finance, Sub-Contract Management and Commercial.

This role requires a systems-thinking mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability work in a multidisciplinary engineering team in a complex and evolving environment.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• The ability to plan, report, organise and drive forward the efforts of a multi-faceted engineering team to deliver complex programme outcomes according to time, quality and cost limitations.
• Broad technology experience, with demonstrable experience of enterprise capability development (people, process and technology).
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and processes.
• A solid grasp of programme and project management principles and tools.
• An understanding of risk management.
• Working with large teams, including their tasking and budgeting.
• Production of estimates of costs against known or future scopes of work.
• Ability to manage engineering budgets, and to regularly reforecast expected costs to end of project.
• Be able to travel to programme and customer meetings across the UK as required.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience of working on UK Government projects, preferably within a defence/security environment.
• Experience of training projects constructed in line with Defence Systems Approach to Training (JSP 822).
• Experience of Earned Value Management techniques.

Knowledge of defence or public sector engineering standards and regulatory frameworks.

• Experience in training transformation or learning platforms.
• SAFe and ITIL4 certified.
• Security cleared or ability to obtain (SC or above).

Benefits

Benefits and Work Culture

• Competitive salaries.
• 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.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or 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.
• 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.

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 and comprises three 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, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing 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.

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