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In order to meet its ambitious production and product development roadmap, Thales increase team and looking for Engineering Delivery Manager.\nThe Engineering Delivery Management (EDM) role is focused on technical management of engineering activities. As an EDM, you will be responsible for building the team with the main focus on delivering of engineering. You will be working closely together with the engineering teams, with the aim of creating goal-driven team(s) based on engineering earned value management. Within this scope, you and the Product Design Authority are responsible for organizing the project, processes and deliverables within given time and money; Product Design Authority is technically responsible for the chosen solution, implementation and realization of this. 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