Domain Quality Manager

6 months 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.

Domain Quality Manager

Are you an impactful Quality Manager / Head of Quality with experience leading and managing a team of professionals working within an engineering or defence environment?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Domain Quality Manager to join our Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) business domain in Crawley. 

What the role has to offer:

Opportunity to lead Quality Assurance across the ISR business

Functional line management of a team of up to 10 direct reports

Key member of the ISR leadership team, helping achieve customer excellence and driving continuous improvement, governance & assurance across our complex engineering programmes

Hybrid role based out of the Crawley site (min 3 days per week)

Key responsibilities

Reporting to the Defence UK Head of Quality, on a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in:

Managing and leading the team to deliver all aspects of quality assurance within bids, projects, design and development lifecycles, system validation, supply chain, manufacturing & customer acceptance across all programmes

Leading the team to drive consistent application of governance to assure quality within gates, milestones and lifecycle events including those attended by the customer (both on and off site)

Representing QA within the senior leadership reviews, presenting material as appropriate to meet the needs of the business and functional strategy

Ensuring functional attendance at formal project reviews and the infeed of independent quality reporting to the senior programme stakeholders

Ensuring customer requirements are embedded and delivered and that the customer is represented at all times

Driving QA forward within the domain, delivering a strategy/roadmap to achieve continuous improvement

Ensuring that the team can deliver its objectives, that suitable skills and capabilities are in place, that talent is developed and that resource is appropriately allocated

About you

Ideally, you’ll:

Have experience operating in a Quality Management leadership role in a complex project/engineering environment

Have proven people management experience including leading, motivating and developing a team of professionals

Experience of working in a fast paced design and development/engineering environment

Proven ability to instigate and drive effective change

Demonstrable ability in influencing key stakeholders and getting buy-in to the quality vision

Experience of budget setting, monitoring and reporting

Related Professional Qualification and Membership of Associations

Benefits at Thales

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include a pension plan, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection as well as an employee assistance programme.

In addition, our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefits to suit your needs. You can choose to add a number of optional benefits including: healthcare cash plan, health assessments, family cover private medical insurance, buying/selling annual leave, gym membership discounts + much, much more. You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site

Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus, 27 days annual leave + 1 company day + UK public holidays as well as the opportunity to volunteer up to 3 days to support local charities/communities in which we work.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to our 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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