Engineering Delivery Manager

Thales; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Inclusive recruitment process

Career development opportunities

Job summary

A leading technology solution provider in Glasgow is seeking an Engineering Delivery Manager to oversee significant projects within the Optronics and Missile Electronics division. In this role, you will lead high-performing engineering teams, define project strategies, and ensure timely delivery while managing costs and quality. Excellent communication skills and a strong engineering background are essential. The successful candidate must be a sole British National and attain Security Clearance prior to employment. Embrace a dynamic environment that promotes your career growth.

Qualifications

• Strong background in engineering with experience in delivering multi-disciplinary projects.
• Excellent communication skills and customer focus.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment.
• Familiar with systems engineering life cycle, practices and tools.
• Naval, air or land product knowledge is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions.
• Define engineering delivery strategy and resource profile.
• Manage project cost, schedule, and quality.
• Organise work breakdown with Programme Manager to meet customer needs.
• Control cost, schedule and quality across the engineering delivery.
• Define work packages, budgets, risks, and delivery timescales.
• Plan and prioritise activities to deliver on contract commitments.
• Day-to-day management and proactive handling of issues and risks.
• Report engineering efficiency and identify reuse opportunities.
• Act as People Manager for the engineering team and feedback in reviews.

Skills

Project management

Engineering solutions delivery

Communication skills

Customer focus

Systems engineering knowledge

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

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.

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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Delivery Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). 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.
• Defining 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.
• 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.
• Identifying re‑use opportunities across the project.
• Acting as the People Manager for the engineering team on the project and providing feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads.

Qualifications

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 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.

Security Requirements

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.

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.

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