Engineering Delivery Manager

Thales; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions provider is looking for an Engineering Delivery Manager to lead multi-discipline teams for significant projects. You will define strategies, manage resources, and ensure project delivery meets customer needs. Candidates should have a strong engineering background and the ability to navigate complex project demands. Security Clearance is required.

Benefits

Opportunities for career development

Inclusive recruitment process

Qualifications

• Experience in leading delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects.
• Ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives.
• Knowledge and experience of naval, air or land products would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-discipline engineering teams to generate solutions.
• Define and manage the engineering delivery strategy.
• Ensure proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks.

Skills

Customer-focused

Excellent communication skills

Agility in business objectives

Education

Strong background in engineering

Tools

Systems engineering tools

Job description

Overview

Location: Green Park, United Kingdom. Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar. We offer opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. Thales UK researches, develops, and supplies technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better and keep us safer. We innovate across Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Delivery Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME).

Role outline

This role will be on at least one of our significant development and production projects within OME. As an Engineering Delivery Manager you will work in collaboration with the Programme Managers, the Engineering Delivery Lead, the Head of Engineering Delivery and the wider engineering team to ensure delivery of the engineering development projects.

Responsibilities

• leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
• the definition of the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project
• managing the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme
• defining the organisation and work breakdown, with the Programme Manager, required to deliver to the Customer needs
• defining and being in charge of meeting cost, schedule and quality of the whole engineering delivery for the programme
• defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within
• the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality
• day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks
• managing and reporting of the engineering efficiency for the project
• the identification of re-use opportunities across the project
• act as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads

Qualifications and experience

The successful candidate will have a strong background in engineering with experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives and have an understanding of systems engineering life cycle, practices and tools. Knowledge and experience of naval, air or land products would be beneficial to this role.

Leadership and behavioural alignment

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:

• acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
• dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives
• engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal
• creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement
• supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers

Organisation and reporting

This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery.

Security and eligibility

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a sole British National from birth and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

Additional information

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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.

Why Thales

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.

Equality and recruitment process

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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