Hardware Engineering Delivery Manager

Location: Crawley, 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.

Crawley - Hybrid

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, Electronic Warfare and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.

We are currently recruiting a Hardware focused Engineering Delivery Manager to work alongside technical architects to support complex engineering programmes of work.

You would be responsible for the completion of engineering tasks within the committed cost, schedule, performance and quality. The related tasks may cover part or all the range of activities regarding customer needs, mission, function, architectural design, and life cycle of the hardware solution (requirements and speciality engineering, design, development, integration and verification).

Key Responsibilities:

• Defines the Hardware development cycle in consistency with that of upper/same level elements (dependencies, co-engineering activities).
• Tailors the Hardware engineering environment (process, practices and tools) according to Company and Project requirements.
• Allocates responsibilities to individual contributors.
• Participates in the specification of the functions and interfaces of products to be developed.
• Participates in the definition of the architecture, and the allocation of functions, to the components for which they have primary responsibility.

A summary of the key tasks includes:

• Generation/maintenance of the Hardware Engineering Management Plan (HEMP)
• Management of Hardware Engineering deliverables throughout the product lifecycle.
• Cost and schedule adherence
• Management of expectations of key stakeholders (Engineering Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Industrial Manager & Product Manager)
• Resource Management
• Milestone delivery performance
• Organisation and Co-ordination of all Design Reviews & Independent Technical Reviews in accordance with the agreed lifecycle process
• Generation of hardware engineering estimates as part of company bids
• Engineering Quality and Performance
• Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification Management of the Hardware Solution
• Engineering governance, metrics and reporting
• Risk and Opportunity management

Experience and skills required:

• Qualification in a hardware engineering related discipline e.g. BEng(Hons) Electronic or Mechanical Engineering
• Evidence of the ability to lead and motivate a team of people to achieve a goal is important
• Knowledge of Hardware Development Lifecycles/Engineering Development programmes, including experience liaising across technical and project teams
• Experience in budget/financial management
• Experience in Programmes, Project or Work Package Management
• Knowledge of configuration
• Knowledge of Lean & Agile Development techniques

Security Clearance Statement:

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

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What we can offer:

We are 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.

Our packages will include significant bonus, a strong pension contribution, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

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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