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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.\nJob Title:\nHardware Delivery Manager\nSite Location:\nTemplecombe\nTravel Percentage:\nUp to 10%\nRole Reports To:\nHead of Hardware Engineering\nNo. Direct Reports:\n20\nAdditional Information:\nRequires UK Government Security Clearance\nPrimary Purpose of Role\nThe Hardware Delivery Manager has day-to-day accountability for the delivery of the Hardware activities across their team including bids and projects; activities will largely be discharged through their xEMs. Maintaining close collaboration with EDMs, xArc and HoEDs within the wider project teams to ensure latest business demand is clearly understood and captured to ensure correct scaling of their team.\nExcellence in execution will be achieved by tracking and reporting the performance of the engineering delivery activities, using KPI’s, the Hardware Delivery Manager provides guidance leadership, intervention, and support to their team to achieve bid and project delivery. The Hardware Delivery Manager leads the optimisation of resource allocation across their team to best meet the demand shown within S&OP process.\nThe Hardware Delivery Manager is responsible for building stakeholder relationships with engineering leaders throughout the engineering teams and leveraging these stakeholders to support the effective and competitive delivery of engineering activities within the portfolio environment. Support xEM in providing accurate schedule, resource, and cost data to the EDMs or PMs as necessary.\nThe Hardware Delivery Manager drives collaboration with the xEM, xARC and EDMs to ensure an effective workflow through requirements and solution design and into system verification, validation, and qualification.\nThe Hardware Delivery Manager works collaboratively with functional team leads to implement new ways of working, ensuring the team are operating in an environment of best practice, executing continuous improvement initiatives to drive synergies and improves efficiencies.\nWhen required the Hardware Delivery Manager will also perform the role of xEM.\nPrincipal Relationships:\nProject xEMs, xArc and EDMs\nPortfolio/Sector HoEDs\nHoDs & Functional team leads\nKey Responsibilities and Tasks:\nProvide leadership to Portfolio Hw team as Workday Mngr 2 (xEMs have dual Mngr 2 reporting lines, the 2nd being into the EDM who provides project delivery responsibility)\nAct as an engineering operational focal point within your team, providing leadership and direction in support of project deliveries\nManage your team to meet operational needs, assigning your members as required to best meet operational needs, communicate effectively with project Leads (e.g. EDMs & PMs) escalate to Portfolio HoED when you are unable to resolve issues locally\nAccurately capture and track demand, manage your team size to discharge the project work within your perimeter\nWork with the discipline HoD & Functional team leads to Identify key skills needed by your team, balancing operational needs with the need to support development, jointly drive through adoption of key domain skills needed in the short and long term through training and KTPs,\nProactively coach xEMs to improve their delivery skills and identify potential succession planning”\nAt 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.\nWe are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here.\nIf this role isn’t quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. 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