Hardware Engineering Delivery Manager

Location: Templecombe, 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.

The Hardware Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM) 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). They ensure Hardware Engineering activity management within constraints provided by the Solution Engineering Manager and Hardware Architects.

In this capacity the Hardware Engineering Delivery Manager:

• 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.
• The Hardware EDM may also carry out the role of Work Package Manager, estimating activities left to do and reporting any workload outside of agreed budget within the scope of work package.

Location: Cheadle or Templecombe or Crawley

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• 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 (Solution Engineering 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

Principal Relationships:

The Hardware EDM works collaboratively with:

• The Solution Engineering Manager and Software Engineering Manager to ensure that the engineering activities are delivered as per technical plans and as per project schedule.
• The Project teams to provide clear and concise reports and information regarding progress and management of Risk and Opportunities in relation to the Engineering Design and Development tasks that they are responsible for.
• The discipline leads and functional leads to obtain resource and assistance required, including those outside of Hardware Engineering, to contribute to the delivery of the Design, Development and Qualification activities.
• The Hardware Products Manager and Hardware Products Architect to ensure the design is based on existing Products (building blocks) as much as practicable to capitalise on cost benefits, design efficiencies and to reduce technical debt.
• The HW team allocated to the project and decide how the deliverable artifacts are to be produced in accordance with the milestone plan.

Qualifications:

Essential

• Level 6 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
• Evidence of effective stakeholder management in previous projects
• Evidence of effective work package management in previous projects, including planning and cost management
• Knowledge and experience in working across the whole or partly of the Hw V&V lifecycle
• Knowledge and experience in working in a configuration-controlled environment
• Knowledge in HW regulation standards such as EMC testing and LVD Directive

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer
• Knowledge of Lean & Agile Development techniques
• Level 6 Qualification in Leadership & Management
• Level 6 Qualification in Coaching & Mentoring
• IPMA Level D Qualification or equivalent experience

Security Clearance Requirement:

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.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided.

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