Discipline Manager – Electronic Engineering

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales 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 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.

Discipline Manager – Electronic Engineering

Crawley

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, Electronic Warfare and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.

We are a forward-looking business that develops innovative products:

• Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) which are revolutionising modern warfare
• Radars that are capable of detecting foot prints in the grass when someone has walked across a field
• Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy Electronic Transmission Environments
• Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.

Role Overview

We are currently recruiting a Discipline Manager to manage our Electronic Engineering team. The team will consist of roughly 20 talented engineers. The role will hold functional responsibility for the team and report into the Head of Hardware.

Critical to the role's success will be strategic planning, resource management, succession planning and an ability to lead transformation activities as we adopt new tools to continue to enhance our best in class tools, process and teams.

Please note, we do not require experience in the Defence/Aerospace environments as the role leans more towards People Management; knowledge of these areas would be advantageous but we are very open to candidates with experience across various regulated sectors.

As the Discipline Manager for Electronic Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Deploying the adequate Practices and Tools tailored to reach the required maturity according to Project/Product delivery challenges
• Working with the discipline delivery team to make them efficient - identify gaps and associated actions to support delivery continuous improvement
• Encouraging adoption of the New technologies
• Capitalising and sharing knowledge and assets
• Allocating Operational Subject Matter Experts on coaching engineering people
• Managing and developing people, skills & allocation to products/projects
• Contributing on Bids/Products and Projects peer reviews to reduce technical/engineering risks and increase confidence to deliver

Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required:

• Ability to empower and unite employees around clear objectives by acting as a coach, influencing and developing “team first” skills
• Deep understanding of capitalisation, cost estimate and knowledge management
• Substantial knowledge of the Electronics or Electrical Engineering discipline.
• Familiarity with the Electronics or Electrical Engineering discipline as well as the interfaces to other disciplines that are dependent on or support to
• Able to support deployment and implementation of new Electronics Engineering discipline tools
• Thrives on the capitalisation and continuous improvement of best practices
• Demonstrates a strong desire for continuous improvement and a capacity to develop a strategic vision: able to integrate and even anticipate the various elements of your environment in order to guide the team through the challenges prompted by competitiveness
• Knows how to adopt a Lean Management approach and apply Agile principles to the management and development of your team, in Scrum and/or Kanban mode

Security Clearance Statement

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held; however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Can Offer

We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will include significant bonus, a strong pension contribution, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

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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.

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