Project Design Authority

6 months ago

Cheshire, United Kingdom Thales Full time

Location: Cheadle, 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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

We are happy for this role to be based in Cheadle or Templecombe.

**Purpose of the Role**:
Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you have an interest in working on cutting-edge next generation products? Do you enjoy being able to generate or initiate innovative solutions? Do you want to be part of a team of leading specialists that are designing solutions that make tomorrow possible, today? Then look no further

We have a fantastic opportunity to join a growing area of the business within Defence Mission Systems, as a Project Design Authority you will be responsible for Solution Compliance for a Bid or Project. You will act as the primary technical leader of the bid or project team, as well as acting as lead technical interface with the Customer.

**Experience Required**:

- Acknowledged expert in one or more of the technological disciplines relevant to the company, e.g. Sonar Systems, Processing, Outboard Hardware etc, and/or in one or more of understanding of business case generation, resource planning, and budgetary control. The developmental lifecycle disciplines, e.g. Requirements Capture, Modelling & Analysis, System Design, Product Development, and IV&V.
- Experienced and knowledgeable of whole systems engineering lifecycles for large complex systems.
- Proven technical/project experience in critical control systems engineering

**Key Responsibilities and Tasks**:
The list below is not exhaustive nor will individuals be expected to be able to undertake all of them. They are given as a guide for the expected duties of the role and grade.
- Analyses Customer needs/requirements and assesses Solution architecture and technical choices.
- Ensures Solution compliance with Customer needs, Product Policy, MTB Strategy & applicable legislation, rules & regulations.
- Reviews the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project.
- Ensures best trade-off between Customer requirements & Product Policy consistent with schedule, costs, MTB strategy & risks/ opportunities.
- Checks the production and the maintenance/service aspects of the Solution with the Production Process/Technology Manager (PPTM) and the Service Engineering Manager.
- Approves the technical specification and source selection of subsystems/products to be outsourced, by taking into account Make-Team-Buy policy, export restrictions and offset requirements.
- Checks that the Engineering Environment (E2) for the Solution is consistent with Country/Company E2 Instruction, and overall Solution cost, technical risks & schedule.
- Responsible for ensuring, with the support of Specialty Engineering experts & Safety/HSE stakeholders, that the Solution design takes into account contract requirements and applicable legislation, rules & regulations, including product safety & security and Environmental/HSE requirements & standards, and that related certification activities are performed adequately and correctly.
- Approves the Design & Justification File (D&JF) prepared by the Solution Architect (ARC).
- Approves the completion of integration, verification, validation and qualification results.
- Performs the Complexity Profiler analysis with the Solution Architect (ARC) & SEM. Take into account the resulting actions during the bid or project.
- Alerts first the DA & then upward within CBU/Domain, Country, BL or GBU Technical Directorate.
- Leads the main bid/project Engineering Reviews and approves the main Engineering deliverables at each project decision milestone.
- Organises when appropriate technical meetings and peer reviews together with the SEM (System Engineering Manager) and other technical stakeholders and experts, in order to perform the Solution technical assessment and validation.
- Contribute to business strategy and product development as required.
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