Engineering Delivery Manager

4 months ago


Crawley, United Kingdom Thales Full time
Location: Cheadle, United KingdomThales 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.

Engineering Delivery Manager

Base location : The ideal location would be Cheadle, UK, although Crawley might be taken into consideration for the right applicant.

We can offer a hybrid approach to office and remote working. We would expect 3 days per week as the standard days on Cheadle / Crawley site.

At most, 15% travel required within Thales sites and sporadically for client meetings within the UK.


CANDIDATES THAT WOULD IMPRESS US

PROFILE:

You graduated with a Master of Engineering or Computer Science or in University.

You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience among the following positions: Engineering Manager, IT / Technical Project Manager, or Software Engineering Manager (SwEM).

You want to lead a technical team in a challenging environment.

You want to delight your customers and build strong relationships.

You are willing to engage and develop your team using collaborative work and challenging approaches.

You believe in continuous improvement and work accordingly.

You sound convincing and persuasive.


COMPETENCIES:

You know how to verify the technical deliverables of engineering teams (customer needs, OCD, requirements, architecture choice…).

You are able to lead and manage technical engineering projects, meeting the requirements with a clear view of the risks and opportunities.

You are able to engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders as well as creating clear and achievable goals.

You are able to take decisions–even in uncertain contexts.


LIFE AS A THALES ENGINEERING DELIVERY MANAGEMENT ROLE

As an Engineering Delivery Management Role, you will:

Deploy the adequate Practices and Tools tailored (for SEM and WPM) to reach the required maturity according to Project/Product delivery challenges.

Work with the discipline delivery team to make them efficient, identify gaps and associated actions to support delivery continuous improvement.

Capitalise and share knowledge and assets dedicated to delivery discipline.

Manage, develop people/skills & allocation to products/projects.

Take in charge Delivery Lead Staffing (SEM, WPM, Tribe Leader, Chief Product Owner) on project/product with respect to PPM/PMs’ requests.

Represent the CC in project reviews.

Reviews of ‘Engineering Deliverability’ for bids (engineering strategy & plan, schedule, solution maturity, risk reduction & risk mitigations, acceptance strategy, certification, resourcing, E2 strategy, estimates, contingency).

Contribute on Bids/Products and Projects peer reviews to reduce engineering risks and increase confidence to deliver.


YOUR CAREER AT THALES
Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:

Room and attention to personal development.

Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution.

Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path.

Build an international career within a leading Engineering group.

Applicants must be eligible to obtain UK SC Level Security Clearance without restrictions and be UK national.

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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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