Engineering Delivery Manager
Thales Group, Scotland-wide
Engineering Delivery Manager
Salary Not Specified
Thales Group, Scotland-wide
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 5 days ago, 25 Apr | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 7ba94fff33834b87b67da63ebc8b64c9
Full Job Description
- The successful candidate will direct and manage engineers on a project or bid to achieve company objectives in terms of programme schedule, financial and quality targets.
- The successful candidate will ensure that engineering processes are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative, regulatory and international standards.
- This role includes management responsibility for the project engineering strategy, direction and team. The role is likely to require interaction with UK and international customers, end-users, industrial partners and suppliers., Directing and providing overall technical and engineering leadership to the team to deliver the engineering solution to time, cost and quality, managing design decisions and resolution of conflicts
- Ensuring the timely and accurate production of the Requirements for the System and Subsystems and ensuring that IVVQ and sell-off of the requirements is planned, documented and achieved in a progressive and low risk manner
- Ensuring that the design and technical certification is planned, co-ordinated, complete and coherent and provided for business approval and delivery
- Plan, manage and coordinate the whole engineering activities within the constraints provided by the agreed architecture and design policy in order to satisfy requirements
- Define Work Breakdown Structures, Organisation Breakdown Structures and associated tasks, tailoring the development process and ensuring achievement of the development baselines (functional, allocated and product
- Define and tailor the engineering environment, optimising the technical work against costs, schedule and risks from design to validation and acceptance of the solution
- Supporting the Programme Manager in proactively managing Risks & Opportunities during the development, integration and qualification phases, guarantees programme commitments, including those flown down to subcontractors and partners Experience: The role will require proven experience of and participation in one or more of the following activities:
- Managing the development and validation of innovative and cost effective solutions and their architectures which meet the design requirements within the constraints of the programme budget and schedule
- Managing engineering delivery across multiple disciplines acting as focal point for the resolution of all issues, problems, questions and conflicts across engineering activities.
- Evaluating system requirements and establishing the feasibility and design approach within area of expertise.
- Specifying system design criteria within area of expertise, particularly with respect to performance, engineering features, interfaces and testing requirements
- Monitoring and analysing technical progress to ensure compliance against the design requirements and schedules.
- Engineering leadership of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
- Ability to build and sustain good working relationships and work closely in teams, with colleagues, managers, customers and stakeholders.
- Effective personal organisation with an ability to remain composed and focused under pressure.
- Knowledge of relevant development lifecycles
- Requirements capture, analysis, decomposition/dissemination and management.
- Ability to develop innovative and low risk practical engineering approaches and strategies to manage a complex project through its lifecycle.
- Cost and schedule planning of engineering activities.
- Managing a project through systems requirements analysis and development, architecture design and development through to Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification (IVVQ) of the solution.
You will have a Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience. Masters Degree (Meng, MSc) or postgraduate level in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics-related subject is also an advantage. Security level This role requires enhanced security clearance to secret (SC) level. Candidates will be required to meet the criteria and seek Defence Vetting Agency clearance, which will be sponsored by Thales. For eligibility criteria, please refer to the Defence Vetting Agency website
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. 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. Primary Purpose of the Role: Thales teams deliver cutting-edge solutions to defence and aerospace companies the world over. We are Europe's number one supplier of defence electronics and a leading provider of integrated air defence systems. Our people work with incredibly advanced technology building, e.g. armoured vehicles that resist the full rigours of battlefield conditions, avionics that control some of the world's most iconic military aircraft. Recently in Belfast, a burgeoning application area is that of space-borne satellite technology. Together, our people make the world safer An opportunity has arisen within our engineering group for an Engineering Delivery Manager who can apply their experience and skills leading a multidiscipline team, designing and developing innovative technical solutions that meet our customer requirements and business needs. The role covers all aspects of the solution and product lifecycle, from requirements capture and analysis through system specification, concept studies, modelling and simulation, design and development, system integration, validation and qualification., 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.
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