Senior Engineering Delivery Manager

Job Description

Location: Glasgow, 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 a Senior Engineering Delivery Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of a Senior Engineering Manager in the Sea business.

This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME and will be part of the leadership team for a large delivery team focused on specific development and support projects within the Sea business.

As a Senior Engineering Delivery Manager, you will work in collaboration with the overall Programme Director, the Senior Programme Managers, and the Head of Engineering Delivery to lead the design and development through to qualification and acceptance for development and production projects within OME and the Sea business.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Forming and leading high-performing, large multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs.
• Producing the strategy that will ensure delivery of all engineering aspects of the programme whilst meeting the governance required within the business.
• Working with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs.
• Defining the project-specific processes, practices, and tools to be used to ensure delivery.
• 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.
• The day-to-day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities, and risks.
• Managing and reporting the engineering efficiency for the project.
• The identification of re-use opportunities across the project.
• The alignment of the project-defined solution to the Product Roadmap.
• 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.

The successful candidate will have an extensive background in engineering and engineering management on large programmes with demonstrable 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. Knowledge and experience of naval 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.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of 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.

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 long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.

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