Hardware Configuration Item Owner

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 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.

**Hardware Configuration Item Owner - Electronic Warfare Solutions**

**Based in Crawley**

Are you looking for your next challenge with the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team that will support with your learning and development? Then look no further

**About the role**

Thales Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) design and deliver hardware into Electronic Warfare Solutions for the UK MoD and have an exciting opportunity for a Hardware Configuration Item Owner to join the team in Crawley. You will take both Technical Ownership of your allocated Sub System and Cost Account Management for the delivery of the associated configuration item.

Your focus will be on ensuring that all the team understand their part and that they work together to achieve timely delivery of development milestones. You will oversee a range of activities regarding customer requirements, architectural design, and development and production life cycle of the hardware solution, whilst monitoring & driving delivery to agreed cost, schedule, performance & quality.

You will work in a highly technical, high performing, world class team who are leaders in this their business area. You will play a key part in new state of the art products and developments in the field of fully digital Electronic Warfare solutions. The role will provide you with opportunities to gain exposure and develop your skills across Thales.

This role require UK SC level security clearance and is based in Crawley with some flexibility to work from home and occasion UK wide travel to other Thales and customer sites.

**Day to day, jointly with other key team members, you will**
- Ensure the feasibility of the Electronic Warfare Sub System Solution
- Assure sub system solution compliance with customer needs, product policy, Make Team Buy strategy and applicable legislation etc.
- Identify & review the technical risks and opportunities
- Manage sub system design & changes
- Plan and execute the defined scope of work for the Control Account, within the defined budget and schedule
- Understand the Critical Path to deliveries
- Monitor, verify and control of costs charged to the Control Account, conducting and completing formal cost and schedule variance analysis

**About You**

You will have a background in Hardware engineering & a solid understanding of Engineering Development Lifecycles and Cost Account Control. The successful applicant will have proven experience leading engineering activity through design & development lifecycles in the defence industry domain. Experience in system integration, platform installation and acceptance in a military environment would also be beneficial.

You will have demonstrable experience of collaborating, leading and pulling together teams, excellent listening skills, logical thinker, driven with a proactive, can do, mentality.

**What We Can Offer**

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. 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. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation. Alongside this you will receive a comprehensive salary and benefits package

**Flexibility**

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.

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