Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Engineering Delivery Manager

Location: Crawley

10% Travel required to other UK & customer sites

What the role has to offer:

Being able to lead and deliver your vision through your own planSatisfying and rewarding workLogical problem solving projects

Our Opportunity

Thales in the UK is at the forefront of Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) air systems with more than 40 years’ experience developing and delivering manned and unmanned airborne surveillance systems.

We are looking for an Engineering Delivery Manager to join our growing ISR business unit who are leaders in sensors, communications, mission systems and in the fast-growing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) market; we are delivering Europe’s largest UAS programme, Watchkeeper, to the British Army.

You will be running the day-to-day engineering activities with the engineering team, manage tasks allocated to team members or tasks allocated to project or product teams, ensuring timely completion.

The Engineering delivery Manager shall identify, plan, communicate and ensure that the Engineering Team execute their tasks driven by the PMO, ILS of Chief Engineer/Engineering Director implementation.

Including production of the detailed Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMP) and production of a quality bill of material and Product Breakdown Structure.

This is a key role to ensure that engineering solutions are value focussed and cost effective. As well as this, interface with SDAs, project management and ILS repairs organisation.

Ensuring prioritisation of work package leads to a timely response to its stakeholders. In addition, you shall be responsible for and managing factors that affect the development lifecycle and you will need to manage the interactions within a systems engineering lifecycle as defined and agreed in the SEMP.

You will need to define entry and exit criteria, for gate reviews such as SOR/SRR/SFR/PDR/CDR/FAT/SAT/TQR. On top of this, manage the integration of specialisms (such as ARMS availability, reliability maintainability survivability, EMC, TEMPEST, Cryptographies, CYBER etc.) within a project.

Lastly, you will need to be able to identify metrics that will be generated, validated and analysed.

Please note this role is a hybrid-working role with most of the team members working 3 days a week in the office. There will also be travel required to other UK Thales sites and customer sites.

Due to the sensitive nature of much of the work, all applicants must be eligible for UK MoD Security Clearance and be UK nationals. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

About You

You will have…

A large portfolio of experience in Engineering Management and managing teamsEntrepreneurship: must demonstrate innovative behaviours and be able to propose support and develop new ideas and processesProfessionalism: must take ownership, share own expertise and experience to deliver what is promised; be customer focussed and demonstrate behaviours that ensure maximum business benefitUnderstand, support, advise and work to the System Engineering lifecycleDemonstrated creative problem solving skills.Experience of coaching and motivating others and encourage mentorship across the wider Thales business

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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