Senior Project Manager - CEMA Synthetics Operations

Job Description:

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Salary £60,000 to £70,000

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Your Impact:

• Oversee daily operations of the CEMA range, ensuring availability, performance, and security.

• Manage the design, deployment, and maintenance of virtualised and physical range environments.

• Develop and maintain realistic threat scenarios, red-team activities, and training injects.

• Coordinate range scheduling, resource allocation, and multi-team exercises.

• Ensure compliance with security, accreditation, and data-handling requirements.

CEMA Integration & Capability Development

• Lead the integration of cyber, electronic warfare, and information activities into training and experimentation events.

• Work with SMEs to design scenarios that reflect real-world CEMA operations, including contested electromagnetic environments.

• Support capability trials, tool evaluation, and TTP (tactics, techniques, procedures) development.

• Maintain awareness of emerging CEMA threats, technologies, and doctrine.

Team Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Manage a cross-LoB team of engineers, operators and exercise planners.

• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, including military customers and industry partners.

• Provide technical and operational guidance to ensure safe, effective, and mission-aligned range activities.

• Deliver briefings, reports, and after-action reviews to senior leadership.

Exercise Planning & Delivery

• Lead the planning, execution, and evaluation of CEMA training events.

• Develop exercise objectives, success criteria, and performance metrics.

• Ensure smooth integration of blue, red, white, and grey cell functions.

• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement of scenarios and infrastructure.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong background in cyber and/or EM operations, CEMA, or cyber-electromagnetic training environments.

• Experience managing synthetic environments, testbeds, or technical training platforms.

• Understanding of offensive and defensive cyber techniques, EW fundamentals, and threat emulation.

• Proven leadership experience in technical or operational teams.

• Ability to translate operational requirements into technical solutions.

• Familiarity with virtualisation, networking, cloud platforms, and security tooling.

• Excellent communication, planning, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience in defence, national security, or critical infrastructure environments.

• Experience with RF systems, spectrum management, or EW toolsets.

• Background in exercise design, red teaming, or cyber training delivery.

Personal Attributes

• Calm under pressure and comfortable leading complex, multi-team events.

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.

• Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across technical and operational domains.

• Driven to innovate and continuously improve training realism and capability development.

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit:

Why join us

At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work-life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we're here to help you thrive.

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance : All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning : Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks : Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.

For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.

Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team-they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

Be part of something bigger - apply now!

Primary Location:
GB - Lincoln

Contract Type:
Permanent

Hybrid Working:
Hybrid