Senior Engineering Manager

4 weeks ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Thales Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineering Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of a Senior Engineering Manager in the Sea business.


This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME. This role will be part of the leadership team for a large delivery team focussed on specific development and support projects within the Sea business.


As a Senior Engineering Manager you will work in collaboration with the overall Programme Director, the Senior Programme Managers and the Head of Engineering Delivery to lead the design and development through to qualification and acceptance for development and production projects within OME and the Sea business.


In this role you will be responsible for:


  • forming and leading high performing, large multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
  • producing the strategy that will ensure delivery of all engineering aspects of the programme whilst meeting the governance required within the business
  • working with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs
  • defining the project specific processes, practices and tools to be used to ensure delivery
  • 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
  • the day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks
  • managing and reporting the engineering efficiency for the project
  • the identification of re-use opportunities across the project
  • the alignment of the project defined solution to the Product Roadmap
  • 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


The successful candidate will have an extensive background in engineering and engineering management on large programmes with demonstrable experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives. Knowledge and experience of naval products would be beneficial to this role.


The successful candidate will 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


This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery.

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