Head of Engineering Delivery

2 weeks ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Thales Full time

Job title: Head of Engineering Delivery

Length: 12 Month Secondment Opportunity


Do you have strong stakeholder management paired with good emotional intelligence? Can you build trust within a team and support them through finding difficult solutions? Are you someone who follows through with commitments and has great leadership skills? Got your interest, than look no further…


Our Opportunity


This is an exciting opportunity working within OME (Optronics & Missile Electronics), who deliver future products and services to the land, sea and air domains. You will be leading a hardworking and passionate team of people who are responsible for delivering on our engineering commitments.


In this role you will:


  • Deploy the adequate Practices and Tools tailored (for EDM and WPM) to reach the required maturity according to Project/Product delivery challenges
  • Work with the discipline delivery team to make them efficient by identifying gaps and associated actions to support delivery continuous improvement
  • Capitalise and share knowledge and assets dedicated to delivery discipline
  • Manage, develop and allocate people and their skills to products/projects
  • Take charge of Delivery Lead Staffing (EDM and WPM) on project/product with respect to PMs’ requests where possible
  • Represent the engineering function in project reviews
  • Review ‘Engineering Deliverability’ for bids
  • Contribute to Bids/Products and Projects peer reviews to reduce engineering risks and increase confidence to deliver and other ad hoc work


About You


  • You will be able to evolve in a technical environment and understand what is at stake in order to make the most appropriate decisions for your scope
  • You will be able to collaborate and interface with various stakeholders in order to ensure the cohesion of your organisation, which you support with a global and strategic vision
  • You will know how to simplify and break down complex problems: you prioritise and coordinate resources accordingly, demonstrating your ability to allocate tasks efficiently
  • You will know how to use your organisational skills in order to guarantee the follow-up of engineering projects, respecting deadlines, costs and quality with a clear vision of risks and opportunities (people management & development, appropriate staffing and recruitment)
  • Lastly, you can master several co-engineering techniques and are able to apply Lean Management or Agile principles to team management.

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