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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.\nHardware Engineering Manager\nTemplecombe, Crawley or Cheadle - Hybrid\nThales Underwater Systems is a global leader in complex maritime engineering, delivering the ship-wide systems that power world-class platforms including the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. Our portfolio spans Communications, Command Information Systems, Systems Integration, Autonomous Systems, Sonar, and Advanced Data Connectivity.\nWe're recruiting for a Hardware Engineering Manager to provide functional leadership to a small multi-disciplinary engineering team. The role will also provide support for work package management. This would be well suited to someone who has held prior leadership experience and is looking to diverse their experience or work on high complex technical programmes. The team size would be roughly 6-8 technical personnel and its important that the successful candidate has familiarity with tasking and resource allocation.\nThere will be some travel provided in the role as the overall business line operates across Cheadle, Crawley and Templecombe.\nRole overview\nThe Hardware Engineering Manager (HwEM) is responsible for the completion of a set 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)\nYou will ensure Hardware Engineering activity management within constraints provided by the Solution Engineering Manager, the Solution and Hardware Architects.\nIn this capacity the Hardware Engineering Manager:\nDefines the Hardware development cycle in consistency with that of upper/same level elements (dependencies, co-engineering activities).\nTailors the Hardware engineering environment (process, practices and tools) according to Company and Project requirements.\nAllocates responsibilities to individual contributors\nParticipates in the specification of the functions and interfaces of products to be developed.\nParticipates in the definition of the architecture, and the allocation of functions, to the components for which they have primary responsibility.\nExperienced required\nExperience within Systems, Hardware or Electronics Engineering within a highly regulated environment, working with multi-discipline teams of engineers\nExperience of technical leadership of either small teams or programmes of work\nProject or Programme delivery experience/knowledge would be desirable\nEngineering Lifecycle experience,\nDesirable experience with Project tracking, ideally Jira but other agile management tools would be desirable although not essential\nSecurity Clearance statement\nDue 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 sole British National from birth 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. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance- United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)\nTo 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.\nWhat we can offer\nWe 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.\nOur packages will include bonus, a strong pension contribute, 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.\nThales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.\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. 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