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Engineering Delivery Manager

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for an Engineering Delivery Manager at a forward-thinking company specializing in defense systems. In this role, you will lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions while managing project costs, schedules, and quality. Collaboration with various stakeholders will be key as you define strategies and oversee the engineering delivery process. The ideal candidate will possess a strong engineering background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate complex challenges. Join this dynamic firm to make a significant impact in the defense sector and advance your career in a supportive environment that values flexibility and inclusivity.

Qualifications

  • Strong background in engineering and multi-disciplinary project delivery.
  • Highly customer-focused with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-performing engineering teams to deliver solutions meeting customer needs.
  • Define engineering delivery strategy and manage project interfaces.

Skills

Engineering Management
Project Management
Communication Skills
Systems Engineering
Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Degree in Engineering

Tools

Project Management Software

Job description

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.

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.

In this role you will be responsible for:

  • 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing and Defense and Space Manufacturing

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