engineering delivery manager.

Your role is to mobilize the right resources, ensure technical, cost, and deadline commitments are met, and unite teams around common objectives. You are also proactive in defining the delivery strategy, driving continuous improvement, alignment with quality standards, and the search for innovative solutions, including with external partners.

This position offers the potential for integration into the company in the medium term.

• Focus on engineering delivery to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of engineering projects involving hardware, software and systems integration components.
• Build a team with shared goals to create an effective engineering chain leading all engineering activities (Research & Technology / Research & Development).
• Manage multidisciplinary engineering teams, including systems engineers, software developers and test engineers.
• Take project execution to the next level by developing project management skills and processes.Identify, assess and mitigate technical risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define and monitor project schedules, milestones and deliverables, aligning them with contractual commitments.
• Organise and facilitate collaborative work between teams: internal resources, local subcontractors, strategic foreign partners and end customers in Belgium or abroad.
• Collaborate with project managers, team leaders, quality assurance and the supply chain to ensure compliance with defence industry standards (e.g. ISO 9001, AQAP).
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimise delivery processes, including methodologies.

• Engineering degree (in one of the following fields: Mechanical, Systems, Electromechanical, Defense, or equivalent)
• Proven experience (5 to 10 years) in leading complex product engineering projects
• Strong asset: knowledge of the defense, space, aerospace, or precision mechanics sector
• Excellent command of applied mechanics (embedded systems, platforms)
• Understanding of pyrotechnics, kinematics, or precision watchmaking
• Solid knowledge in risk management, project structuring, and quality assurance processes
• Transversal leadership: ability to engage a multidisciplinary team without direct hierarchical links
• Strategic mindset, ability to find alternative paths, arbitrate, and make decisions
• Results-oriented, strong focus on operational performance and efficiency seeking
• Open-minded, situational intelligence, solution-oriented
• Good interpersonal skills, assertive yet collaborative demeanor
• Proficiency in professional English is essential (international environment, documentation, meetings) 
• French: Native speaker level required