Engineering Delivery Manager

2 days ago


Crawley, United Kingdom Thales Full time
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.

Location: Crawley, Bristol or Reading

Travel Requirement: Domestic and international travel will be required

About the job:

As an Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM) for Above Water Systems UK (AWS-UK) bids and programmes, you will be key to a range of activities leading an Engineering team to deliver the Integrated Combat System delivery for domestic and export customers through the entire engineering lifecycle. This role will be responsible for the delivery of all engineering related milestones through the complete Design, Build and Integration programme for a major programme of work, supporting a new ship build. Based in the UK, but working closely with our Thales Netherlands colleagues in Hengelo, this role will coordinate all engineering activities, be responsible for the delivery of the engineering governance reviews and work with the IVVQ team to deliver an operational system to the Customer.

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

This role requires up to 50% international travel and, when working from within the UK, may require travel to Thales sites including Crawley, Reading and Bristol in order to collocate with the wider project team.

About you :
You will have experience in collaborative multi-entity international teams and leading complex system solution design activities against UK MOD and export customer requirements, standards and processes. You will have significant experience of solution architectures with a strong underpinning of a product-based approach to solution configuration.

You will have multi-disciplinary engineering leadership skills and demonstrated ability to balance functional, performance, non-functional and architectural aspects of a complex system designs and have a demonstrated track record of successfully presenting complex ideas to customers, partners and colleagues in an international context.

You will have a strong grasp of technical risk and strategies to minimise and mitigate them in a timely yet robust manner. You will have a deep grounding in the management of safety and security risks and have demonstrated ability in working with specialists to reach successful certification outcomes.

Desirable experience:
  • Full Lifecycle experience in 100M£+ programmes
  • Bid experience
  • Understanding of the regulatory requirements of maritime systems internationally and in the UK specifically
  • Practical knowledge of uncrewed systems, their management, use and integration into capability
  • Practical Systems Engineering modelling experience
  • Ability to travel in Europe and beyond

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. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.
  • 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.

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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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