Engineering Delivery Manager
Job Description
Engineering Delivery Manager
Location: Crawley
10% Travel required to other UK & customer sites
What the role has to offer:
- Being able to lead and deliver your vision through your own plan
- Satisfying and rewarding work
- Logical problem solving projects
Our Opportunity
You will be running the day-to-day engineering activities with the engineering team. You will need to manage tasks allocated to team members or tasks allocated to project or product teams, ensuring timely completion.
The Engineering delivery Manager shall identify, plan, communicate and ensure that the Engineering Team execute their tasks driven by the PMO, ILS of Chief Engineer/Engineering Director implementation via CRs, ECRs and PRs. You will need to plan and execute the engineering activities including production of the detailed Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMP) and production of a quality bill of material and Product Breakdown Structure.
You will need to ensure that engineering solutions are value focussed and cost effective. As well as this, interface with SDAs, project management and ILS repairs organisation.
You will need to ensure prioritisation of work package leads to a timely response to its stakeholders. In addition, you shall be responsible for and managing factors that affect the development lifecycle and you will need to manage the interactions within a systems engineering lifecycle as defined and agreed in the SEMP.
You will need to define entry and exit criteria, for gate reviews such as SOR/SRR/SFR/PDR/CDR/FAT/SAT/TQR. On top of this, manage the integration of specialisms (such as (ARMS) availability, reliability maintainability survivability, EMC, TEMPEST, Cryptographies, CYBER etc.) within a project. Lastly, you will need to be able to identify metrics that will be generated, validated and analysed.
Please note this role is a hybrid-working role with most of the team members working 3 days a week in the office. There will also be travel required to other UK Thales sites and customer sites.
Due to the sensitive nature of much of the work, all applicants must be eligible for UK MoD Security Clearance and be UK . Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.
About You
You will have…
- A large portfolio of experience in Engineering Management and managing teams
- Entrepreneurship: must demonstrate innovative behaviours and be able to propose support and develop new ideas and processes
- Professionalism: must take ownership, share own expertise and experience to deliver what is promised; be customer focussed and demonstrate behaviours that ensure maximum business benefit
- Understand, support, advise and work to the System Engineering lifecycle
- Must demonstrate creative problem solving skills.
- Must be able to coach and motivate others and encourage mentorship across the wider Thales business
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 informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and and are integral to the success of Thales.