Engineering Delivery Manager

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Job Title: Engineering Delivery Manager

Base location: Reading

We can offer a hybrid approach to office and remote working. We would expect 3 days per week as the standard days in Reading site / any Thales sites.

Travel percentage: Up 30-40% in the UK.

Identity & Biometric Solutions (IBS) business line

Thales Identity and Biometric Solutions (IBS) Business Line is part of the global Thales Group, which employs more than 80,000 people in 68 countries.

Thales delivers identity and biometric solutions to governments, public authorities, and private entities in civil identity and public security. We do this by providing highly secure documents, such as passports, ID cards, driver’s licenses, etc., at the heart of identity schemes. We also provide solutions for verifying people’s identities, for example, when they cross borders and enrolling them in national registers. Both of these are built on our expertise in biometrics.

And, as governments go through a digital transformation, we support them by delivering secure, convenient, and feature-proof mobile identity, digital identity wallet, platform, and services. We also address public security and law enforcement challenges by offering the latest in criminal forensics and real-time facial recognition.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

• To provide the principle engineering delivery leadership, direction, decision authority and support to the programme or bid.
• To direct and manage the Engineering team on project or bid to achieve company objectives in terms of programme schedule, financial and quality targets.
• To ensure that the Engineering Processes are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative, regulatory and international standards.
• This role will include significant Management responsibility for engineering strategy and direction

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Defining and delivering the strategy, plan and implementation of the overall Engineering Solution for the Programme.
• Directing and providing overall technical and engineering leadership to the team assigned to the project to deliver the Engineering solution to time, cost and quality.
• Ensuring the timely and accurate production of the Requirements for the System and Subsystems and ensuring that sell-off & IVVQ of the requirements is planned, documented and achieved in a progressive and low risk manner.
• Ensuring that the Programme / Project’s Design and other Technical Certification is co-ordinated, complete and coherent with the delivered and installed base and can be provided for Business approval and delivery to the customer
• Leading the interfacing with the Engineering teams of the client and other external Engineering parties to ensure that the integration and migration of the overall Engineering solution within its infrastructure and associated projects is achieved
• Ensuring that approval through own and delegated authority for all Engineering documentation and deliverables including specifications, designs, reports, analysis, code and equipment can be achieved and that all designs developed by the project have been produced by competent designers and subject to competent design check and approval
• Supporting the Programme Director in the management of change, variation, risk and opportunity, recovery and acceleration as it affects the delivery of the Engineering solution.
• Overseeing the development of cost and time estimates for project activities to meet business and customer objectives.
• Leading and implementing agreed change and stimulating innovation into the project to improve overall out-turn.
• Validate the engineering delivery progress and support the accurate measurement of progress on the project.
• Participating with other members of the Programme or bid senior management team to ensure that the Programme or bid meets its business and customer objectives.
• Ensuring that any Corrective Actions and Observations related to the engineering delivery and solution are closed in a timely and complete manner.
• Working with the Engineering Functional Teams to ensure that the Programme’s Engineering team are competent, developed to their full potential, mobilized and released in a timely and planned manner.
• Supporting and assisting the Engineering Functional Teams to strengthen the businesses engineering capabilities and competencies.

Skills and Experience:

• Extensive multidisciplinary Engineering expertise, with specific knowledge of the domain, infrastructure, Systems Integration practices, and the disciplines utilized 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.
• Strong analytical skills supporting logical, effective, and timely decision making.
• Strong appreciation of Safety and Safety Assurance within the Engineering discipline and Domain.
• Familiarity with Project management and delivery processes and practices, commercial acumen and a robust approach to budget and schedule control.
• Effective personal organization and an ability to remain composed focused with attention to detail under pressure.
• Can manage a complex project through a defined design process and is able to tailor CHORUS2 to project needs.

Desirable Qualifications and Certification:

• HND/Engineering Degree or equivalent

UKEO (UK Eyes Only)

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non-ITAR country may be considered. 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.

At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

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