Engineering Delivery Manager

We are looking for an Engineering Delivery Manager to join our growing ISR business unit who are leaders in sensors, communications, mission systems and in the fast-growing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) market; we are delivering Europe’s largest UAS programme, Watchkeeper, to the British Army.

You will be running the day-to-day engineering activities with the engineering team, manage tasks allocated to team members or tasks allocated to project or product teams, ensuring timely completion.

The Engineering delivery Manager shall identify, plan, communicate and ensure that the Engineering Team execute their tasks driven by the PMO, ILS of Chief Engineer/Engineering Director implementation.

Including production of the detailed Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMP) and production of a quality bill of material and Product Breakdown Structure.

This is a key role to ensure that engineering solutions are value focussed and cost effective. As well as this, interface with SDAs, project management and ILS repairs organisation.

Ensuring prioritisation of work package leads to a timely response to its stakeholders. In addition, you shall be responsible for and managing factors that affect the development lifecycle and you will need to manage the interactions within a systems engineering lifecycle as defined and agreed in the SEMP.

You will need to define entry and exit criteria, for gate reviews such as SOR/SRR/SFR/PDR/CDR/FAT/SAT/TQR. On top of this, manage the integration of specialisms (such as ARMS availability, reliability maintainability survivability, EMC, TEMPEST, Cryptographies, CYBER etc.) within a project.

Lastly, you will need to be able to identify metrics that will be generated, validated and analysed.

Please note this role is a hybrid-working role with most of the team members working 3 days a week in the office. There will also be travel required to other UK Thales sites and customer sites.

Due to the sensitive nature of much of the work, all applicants must be eligible for UK MoD Security Clearance and be UK nationals. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance., Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact for mid to senior roles, or the for graduate and apprentice roles.

• A large portfolio of experience in Engineering Management and managing teams

• Entrepreneurship: must demonstrate innovative behaviours and be able to propose support and develop new ideas and processes

• Professionalism: must take ownership, share own expertise and experience to deliver what is promised; be customer focussed and demonstrate behaviours that ensure maximum business benefit

• Understand, support, advise and work to the System Engineering lifecycle

• Demonstrated creative problem solving skills.

• Experience of coaching and motivating others and encourage mentorship across the wider Thales business