Thales
Engineering Delivery Manager
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Optronics & Missile Electronics (OME)
We help forces to find the right information at the right time to make the right decision. For over 130 years we’ve proudly led the development of Optronics for military, scientific and commercial use. We cover three sectors: Air, Land and Sea.
Engineering Delivery Manager
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Delivery Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME).
This role will be on at least one of our significant development and production projects within OME. As an Engineering Delivery Manager you will work in collaboration with the Programme Managers, the Engineering Delivery Lead, the Head of Engineering Delivery and the wider engineering team to ensure delivery of the engineering development projects.
Responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
- The definition of the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project
- Managing the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme
- Defining the organisation and work breakdown, with the Programme Manager, required to deliver to the Customer needs
- Defining and being in charge of meeting cost, schedule and quality of the whole engineering delivery for the programme
- Defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within
- The planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality
- Day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks
- Managing and reporting of the engineering efficiency for the project
- The identification of re-use opportunities across the project
- Acting as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads
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Requirements
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in engineering with experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. You will be highly customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives and have an understanding of systems engineering life cycle, practices and tools. Knowledge and experience of naval, air or land products would be beneficial to this role.
The successful candidate will also be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:
- Acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
- Dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives
- Engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal
- Creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement
- Supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers
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Security Clearance Requirement
Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires Security Clearance (SC). It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment.
To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.
Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels
Benefits
- Performance-related bonus
- Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
- 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
- 24 hours volunteering paid for
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme
- Life cover
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
- Gym membership discounts
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