Company description
About us
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.
We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.
Job description
We are looking for an Engineering Manager and Operations Lead with an ability to pull together our expert hardware, software, manufacturing and support teams as we bring products to market at pace, to the highest quality.
Oakdoor™ by PA Consulting is an incubated scale-up business that is disrupting the cyber security world of cross domain solutions. Bringing the next generation of ingenious hardware data diodes to the most important networks in the world.
You will build deep and collaborative relationships with customers and authorities, working closely with the Oakdoor engineering team to ensure effective product development, manufacture and support.
Your expertise in security products and experience working with accreditation organisations will enable our current and future products to continue to protect the highest security networks in the world.
You will be based in Melbourn(Cambridge) as part of the engineering team and will have the opportunity to visit customer and supplier sites across the UK. A background in security products is helpful and ability to gain UK DV security clearance is important.
Qualifications
Objectives of this role
You will be delivery focused and able to prioritise key activities which will include:
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Working across our engineering, manufacturing and support teams to co-ordinate product development, accreditation, manufacturing, shipping and support.
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Driving the adoption of long-term high-grade engineering standards.
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Refining our Oakdoor security products and processes including high-level design decisions and documents required to reach accreditation with various cyber security organisations, including the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
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Manage the day-to-day relationship with key regulators and test partners (e.g NCSC and EMC safety).
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Exploring, defining and enabling the sale of products into target sectors and geographies (e.g product testing for US export).
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Managing and onboarding key engineering contractors and working with our manufacturing lead to manage our key supply chain partners.
Skills and Qualifications
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Proven record of working with accreditation authorities or working on a high-security product.
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Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.
Find out more about Life at PA here.
We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.