Engineering Delivery Manager

Location: Cheadle, 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.

Engineering Delivery Manager

Base location: Cheadle / Templecombe, UK

We can offer a hybrid approach to office and remote working. We would expect 3 days per week as the standard days on Cheadle / Templecombe site.

At most, 15% travel required within Thales sites and sporadically for client meetings within the UK.

Are you a hardworking individual with a can-do attitude? Do you want to develop your career by taking on a managerial role that offers the opportunity to drive a programme? Do you have good communication skills and enjoy helping the development of others? Got your interest? Then look no further…

What the role has to offer:

• Opportunity to step up to an engineering management position
• Good opportunity to learn in a different engineering domain
• Be able to stretch your thinking by working on a challenging & complex programme

About the team/rewards

You will be managing a multidisciplinary team, including teams within Hardware, Software, Systems, Safety, and Cyber Security. This team works together on the delivery of sonar equipment. They are a close-knit team who are hardworking, helpful and enjoy working together on site.

Our Opportunity

Your role as Engineering Delivery Manager would be to deliver on one of our sonar programmes, including being responsible for cost & schedule and fulfilling customer needs.

Your responsibility will be to provide the principal engineering delivery leadership, direction, decision authority and support to the programme or bid. As well as directing and managing the Engineering team on project or bid to achieve company objectives in terms of programme schedule, financial and quality targets.

You will need to ensure that the Engineering Processes are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative, regulatory and international standards. Your role will include significant management responsibility for engineering strategy and direction and may have direct line management responsibilities for staff on the project.

Applicants must be eligible to obtain UK SC Level Security Clearance without restrictions and be UK national.

About You

• You will have extensive experience of systems engineering and ideally would have worked within the defence sector.
• You would have previously worked in a multidisciplinary team as a team lead or member.
• You will have strong analytical skills supporting logical, effective and timely decision-making.
• You will have a strong appreciation of Safety and Safety Assurance within the Engineering discipline and Domain.

It would be desirable if you have undertaken a managerial role previously, ideally within defence having previously worked on submarines or sonar equipment. However, if not, it is not essential and this role would therefore be a great opportunity for you to develop this part of your career.

What We Can Offer

We’re 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.

Flexibility

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.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have an informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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