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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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
Location: Cheadle, Greater Manchester
Security requirements: UK national
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 / Crawley site.
Are you ready to dive into a new leadership opportunity and propel your career within a global organisation? Join our dynamic team, leading the successful delivery of cutting-edge engineering solutions. Bring your expertise to ensure seamless coordination, efficient project execution and innovation to our customers in submarine technology!
If you thrive in a challenging and impactful role – apply now to be a key player in advancing the future of sonar technology and engineering!
What the role has to offer:
· Exciting growth opportunity
· Job Satisfaction - sense of achievement in keeping people safe
· Working on complex programmes
Our Opportunity
This exciting opportunity will be working within the Thales UWS business as an Engineering Delivery Manager working with key stakeholders and clients as well as the engineering teams.
As an Engineering Delivery Manager, you will direct and manage the engineering teams on projects or bids to achieve company objectives in terms of programme schedule, financial and quality targets. You will ensure that the engineering processes are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative regulatory and international standards.
This role will also include significant management responsibility for engineering strategy and direction and may have direct line manager responsibilities for staff on the project
About You
You will need to be Innovative and driven and have the following:
· Multidisciplinary Engineering expertise, with knowledge of the domain, infrastructure, Systems Integration practices and the disciplines utilised on the project.
· Ability to develop innovative and low risk practical engineering strategies to manage a complex project through its lifecycle.
· Strong knowledge and proven application of Engineering Project Delivery and processes across the full project lifecycle.
· Team leadership – with a proven ability to build and sustain good working relationships with staff, peers and managers, customers and stakeholders.
· Focus on customers – Be driven to deliver timely, quality solutions to clients.
· Develop people – Develop the project engineering team to their full potential and be prepared to share your ideas and experience with the wider Thales engineering community.
Applicants must be eligible to obtain UK SC Level Security Clearance without restrictions and be UK national.
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.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
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.
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 disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.
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