The Engineering Manager Role****What You’ll Do

As Engineering Delivery Manager at Xi, you’ll lead, develop, and support our engineering team while ensuring project delivery is expertly planned, coordinated, and aligned with our commercial strategy. Your core focus will be on building a high-performing, healthy, and productive engineering environment where technical professionals thrive and output accelerates toward best-in-class standards.

Key Areas of Responsibility

People Leadership & Team Development:

• Conduct regular 1-to-1s, performance feedback sessions, and development planning with all engineering team members
• Build and reinforce clear expectations for professional behaviour, conduct, and ways of working
• Address underperformance, conflict, or behavioural issues with fairness, clarity, and professionalism
• Create a culture of accountability, respect, and shared responsibility across the engineering team
• Develop progression pathways and visible growth opportunities for technical professionals
• Lead your team with consistency, ensuring alignment with company priorities and values

Delivery Coordination & Planning:

• Own day-to-day engineering project planning, resource allocation, and delivery coordination
• Improve team productivity, focus, and effectiveness across active projects and workstreams
• Ensure engineering delivery is realistically scoped, priced, and resourced
• Translate technical capability into repeatable, competitive services and offerings
• Support engineers to maintain agreed technical standards while expanding capability

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Work closely with our Commercial Director to align engineering delivery capability with sales, proposals, and service development
• Partner with our Governance Infrastructure Manager (vacancy) to ensure processes align with ISO 9001 standards
• Collaborate with Project Managers to optimise planning, resourcing, and delivery coordination
• Engage with external partners on collaborative delivery and capability development

What We’re Looking For****Hard Skills & Technical Requirements

You’ll have:

• Strong technical grounding in applied engineering disciplines such as modelling, simulation, measurement, data processing, or similar
• Substantial hands-on engineering experience – enough to credibly lead and develop technical professionals
• Clear understanding of how engineering capability translates into services, products, and delivery models
• Proven experience planning and coordinating technical work across projects, teams, or workstreams
• Capability to step in on technical matters while maintaining your leadership responsibilities

Leadership & Behavioural Qualities

You must be:

• Leading and managing with clarity to build healthy teams.
• Willing to hold firm boundaries and address gaps, regardless of technical seniority
• Focused on putting company priorities, standards, and culture ahead of individual preferences or technical egos
• Pragmatic and grounded, outcome-focused rather than perfectionist – you deliver results that matter

This role requires visible leadership and consistency. Technical skill, popularity, or tenure alone are insufficient for success. Engineering excellence at Xi includes how we work together, not just what we deliver.

What We Offer

• Significant leadership impact : Shape how our engineering team develops, operates, and contributes to the business
• Technical credibility : Apply your engineering expertise while growing as a leader
• Clear ownership : accountability for engineering team performance, development, engineering planning, and delivery excellence
• Supportive structure : Direct access to our CEO and Commercial Director; collaborative relationships across operations
• Competitive package : Salary, benefits, and development support commensurate with experience
• Professional growth : Opportunity to build world-class processes in a growing firm

How to Apply

• Location:  Edinburgh, Scotland (hybrid working available)
• Contract type:  Permanent, full-time
• Reporting line:  Reports directly to the CEO, with close working relationship to the Commercial Director
• Salary:  Competitive and commensurate with experience
• Application process:  Please submit your CV and a short cover note outlining your interest in the role and your experience leading engineering teams, to  hr@xiengineering.com
• Closing date:  Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Early applications are encouraged.

Xi Engineering Consultants is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates