Electronics Project Manager

Company Description

ALTEN is a global engineering and technology consultancy operating across over 35 countries worldwide. We partner with industry leaders across sectors including Aeronautics, Aerospace, Defence, Naval, Automotive, Energy, Rail, IT and many more to deliver innovative engineering solutions that drive technological advancement & support sustainable transformation.

Our teams of passionate and agile engineers work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of technology and sustainability. At ALTEN, we empower talented engineers to innovate, solve complex challenges, and deliver impactful solutions that build tomorrow’s world—today.

Join us and start building tomorrow’s world today!

Job Description

As an Electronics Project Manager, you will join the Crawley team to support our activities within the defence, maritime and mission-critical systems sector.

Working as a consultant for ALTEN, you will lead the delivery of complex electronics and hardware development programmes supporting advanced autonomous platforms, sensor systems and command-and-control technologies. This role sits at the interface of engineering delivery, systems integration and stakeholder coordination, ensuring projects are delivered on time, to cost and to quality across international teams.

Location: Crawley

On Site: Hybrid (3 days per week on site)

Clearance: Full right to work in the UK & SC Clearance MUST be obtained/held.

Experience Level: 5–10 Years

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage electronics and hardware engineering work packages, ensuring delivery against programme milestones, cost and quality targets.
• Coordinate cross-functional engineering teams, including systems, electronics and software specialists across UK and international locations.
• Monitor and control hardware engineering activities remotely, ensuring technical progress, risk management and issue resolution.
• Plan, track and report project performance, managing schedules, dependencies and resource allocation using structured project controls.
• Act as the primary interface between engineering teams and stakeholders, translating technical progress into clear project status updates.
• Support continuous improvement of delivery processes, tools and reporting to improve programme efficiency and predictability.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Strong experience managing electronics or hardware engineering projects within defence, aerospace, maritime or safety-critical environments.
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary and international engineering teams, including remote collaboration.
• Solid understanding of systems engineering and electronics development lifecycles.
• Experience using project management and workflow tools, including PALMA (essential).
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and technical reporting capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.
• 5–10 years’ experience in electronics, hardware or systems project delivery.
• Experience working within regulated or high-integrity engineering environments.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Jira or similar agile / project tracking tools.
• Exposure to autonomous systems, sensor technologies or mission management platforms.
• Background supporting defence or mission-critical programmes with distributed teams.

Additional Information

Why join us?

We bring together entrepreneurial, tech-driven people to deliver innovative solutions for leading companies.

At ALTEN, you’ll work on exciting projects, supported by ongoing learning, mentoring, and clear career development tailored to your goals.

Join a passionate team and help build tomorrow, today.

In short you get:

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)

We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant & actively encourage applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists, service leavers, and military spouses/partners. We recognise the value of military skills and experience and are committed to ensuring that no applicant is unfairly disadvantaged during our recruitment and selection processes.

This role may require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.

• Contract Type: Permanent
• Region: South East UK