Engineering Delivery Manager

Thales Avionics, Inc. (AGS); Templecombe; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales seeks an experienced engineering leader to guide a major Under Water Systems programme, delivering end‑to‑end engineering solutions on time and within budget. You will steer cross‑functional teams, coordinate requirements, and manage design certification with internal and external stakeholders.

The role emphasizes strategic direction, risk control and proactive collaboration across client and partner organisations to ensure successful delivery and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Extensive multidisciplinary Engineering expertise across domain, infrastructure and integration practices.
• Ability to develop innovative, low risk engineering strategies for complex lifecycles.
• Strong knowledge of engineering project delivery and processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the strategy, plan and implementation of the overall Engineering Solution for the Programme.
• Direct and provide technical and engineering leadership to the project team to meet time, cost and quality objectives.
• Ensure timely production of requirements and compliance, including IVVQ planning and approvals.
• Coordinate design documentation, certifications and liaison with client teams and external partners.
• Support programme management in change, risk, recovery and progress measurement.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Systems integration

Project delivery

Team leadership

Decision making

Job description

Location

Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Under Water Systems (UWS)

Our purpose is to be the leading provider of underwater sensors and decision superiority, helping navies across the world keep our friends, families and all of us safe. We cover four sectors: Mine Counter Measures, Anti-Submarine warfare, Services and Future Capabilities.

Primary Purpose of the Role

• To provide the principle engineering delivery leadership, direction, decision authority and support to the programme or bid.
• To direct and manage the Engineering team on project or bid to achieve company objectives in terms of programme schedule, financial and quality targets.
• To ensure that the Engineering Processes are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative, regulatory and international standards.
• This role will includes significant Management responsibility for engineering strategy and direction and may have direct line management responsibilities for staff on Project.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Defining and delivering the strategy, plan and implementation of the overall Engineering Solution for the Programme.
• Directing and providing overall technical and engineering leadership to the team assigned to the project to deliver the Engineering solution to time, cost and quality.
• Ensuring the timely and accurate production of the Requirements for the System and Subsystems and ensuring that sell-off & IVVQ of the requirements is planned, documented and achieved in a progressive and low risk manner.
• Ensuring that the Programme / Project's Design and other Technical Certification is co-ordinated, complete and coherent with the delivered and installed base and can be provided for Business approval and delivery to the customer
• Leading the interfacing with the Engineering teams of the client and other external Engineering parties to ensure that the integration and migration of the overall Engineering solution within its infrastructure and associated projects is achieved
• Ensuring that approval through own and delegated authority for all Engineering documentation and deliverables including specifications, designs, reports, analysis, code and equipment can be achieved and that all designs developed by the project have been produced by competent designers and subject to competent design check and approval
• Supporting the Programme Director in the management of change, variation, risk and opportunity, recovery and acceleration as it affects the delivery of the Engineering solution.
• Overseeing the development of cost and time estimates for project activities to meet business and customer objectives.
• Leading and implementing agreed change and stimulating innovation into the project to improve overall out-turn.
• Validate the engineering delivery progress and support the accurate measurement of progress on the project.
• Participating with other members of the Programme or bid senior management team to ensure that the Programme or bid meets its business and customer objectives.
• Ensuring that any Corrective Actions and Observations related to the engineering delivery and solution are closed in a timely and complete manner.
• Working with the Engineering Functional Teams to ensure that the Programme's Engineering team are competent, developed to their full potential, mobilised and released in a timely and planned manner.
• Supporting and assisting the Engineering Functional Teams to strengthen the businesses engineering capabilities and competencies.

Skills and Experience

• Extensive multidisciplinary Engineering expertise, with specific knowledge of the domain, infrastructure, Systems Integration practices and the disciplines utilised on the project.
• Ability to develop innovative and low risk practical engineering strategies to manage a complex project through its lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge and proven application of Engineering Project Delivery and processes across the full project lifecycle.
• Team leadership - with a proven ability to build and sustain good working relationships with staff, peers and managers, customers and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills supporting logical, effective and timely decision making.
• Strong appreciation of Safety and Safety Assurance within the Engineering discipline and Domain.
• Familiarity with Project management and delivery processes and practices, commercial acumen and a robust approach to budget and schedule control.
• Effective personal organisation and an ability to remain composed focused with attention to detail under pressure.
• Can manage a complex project through a defi