# Head of Engineering Projects

Job Description: Your Impact Are you motivated by leading exceptional people, solving complex challenges and leaving a lasting impact on both business performance and national capability? With continued growth across our Electronic Warfare Line of Business, we have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced leader to join us as Head of Engineering Projects. In this pivotal role, you will shape engineering strategy, develop future capability and lead the successful delivery of a portfolio of complex, mission-critical programmes, from concept through to production support. Working closely with customers, partners and senior leaders across Leonardo, you will drive innovation, engineering excellence and operational performance, ensuring we continue to deliver best-in-class solutions that meet our customers' evolving needs while strengthening our position as a trusted defence partner. What You’ll Do Strategic leadership: Provide strategic direction and oversight across all programmes, motivating, leading and inspiring engineering teams to achieve excellence Deliver Engineering Success: Shape and direct the planning, resourcing, prioritisation, execution, and delivery of engin

- **Id**: 4081715
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leonardo-head-of-engineering-projects>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Luton, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T17:30:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6042
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Gym membership, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 54177
- **Name**: Leonardo
- **Domain**: leonardo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leonardo-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 190
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.979
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T17:30:53Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Secondment Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T18:58:08Z

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