EW Portfolio Engineering Manager

3 weeks ago


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

ISR has a new position for a Head of Portfolio Engineering for Electronic Warfare. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to work on an exciting range of high profile projects. To succeed in this role, you will have an engineering background, with a rounded knowledge of hardware systems, software and safety.

You could be working in Project Management and be looking to move into Engineering Management, or be working in Engineering and wanting to expand and diversify your experience, particularly in leadership. The most important thing is that you want to make a difference to ISR and you’ll be confident to raise your own profile at BL and GBU level.

As part of the ISR Engineering Leadership Team, you will have the opportunity to help develop the ISR Engineering Capability supporting the Engineering Director. Therefore, strong engineering leadership is an essential attribute in this role.

What you will be doing:

You will provide the team with leadership and management, spending time mentoring and developing your people, and you will be confident in decision making, sometimes when outside of your own knowledge or expertise.

You will also be involved in engineering management, defining and executing strategy and creating and maintaining the vision of how to get it done.

Create a learning culture within the team to enable continually improving individual and collective performance.

Establish and maintain an excellent relationship with the Portfolio Lead, providing them with support and counsel in order to meet the business objectives related to their portfolio.

As a member of the ISR Engineering Leadership Team, pro-actively contribute to the evolution of engineering capability and performance whilst also ensuring the team provide any necessary support into your own portfolio.

What we're looking for from you:

You should be looking for a challenge across Engineering Management and Leadership. Using your ability to anticipate risks, identify delivery issues early, and mitigate through pro-active recovery plans to avoid cost/schedule/quality impacts, you will lead the Electronic Warfare Portfolio with confidence and considerateness.

Your sound commercial awareness and ability to balance technical with commercial needs will stand you in good stead to succeed. You will be able to demonstrate significant successful Engineering Leadership and Management competence and experience gained across the acquisition lifecycle with breadth across Systems, Software and Hardware Engineering.

Providing Leadership - Making Decisions, Leading People, Empowering Individuals

Driving Success - Taking Action, Seizing Opportunities, Pursuing Goals

Communicating Information - Influencing People, Articulating Information, Challenging Ideas

Showing Resilience - Showing Composure, Resolving Conflict

Evaluating Problems- Examining Information, Documenting Facts, Interpreting Data

Giving Support- Understanding People, Team Working, Valuing Individuals

Building Relationships- Interacting with People, Establishing Rapport, Recognising Success

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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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