Thales | Engineering Improvement Manager

5 days ago


glasgow, United Kingdom Thales Full time

Engineering Improvements Manager
Would you love to drive change and improve the engineering function as a whole? Ability to influence change and improvement while implementing best practices across the engineering function. You will be working across a multi-discipline team including: engineers working in software, systems, and hardware. This team will help develop new products for customers across land, sea and air domains through the full development lifecycle. They have a great team spirit - communicating well across sites and business domains so there is always good understanding of what is going on across a diverse range of projects.

You will be responsible for identifying, co-ordinating and leading improvement activities across the Engineering function, and in collaboration with other business functions.

You will use process and project data, identify opportunities for process streamlining and cost reduction in development activities.

As well as this, act as a “Local Process Correspondent” for the Thales process-based reference system, communicate and effectively implement changes to the process. You will actively monitor implementation across projects to identify weaknesses that need to be addressed. You will also lead the Engineering function for external assessments, guiding the team through preparation, auditing and non-conformance management.

You will be able to demonstrate your ability in improvement planning at both strategic and implementation levels - including a proven record in issue/risk identification, root cause analysis, solution development and improvement roll-out.
You will have experience in the product development process and an understanding of a range of lifecycle types (Waterfall, Agile) and the appropriate use of each, including an understanding of the interactions of design process with other functions (e.g. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. To continue to protect all our employees’ health and financial wellbeing.
To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.
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.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.



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