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Engineering Delivery Manager
Location: Glasgow – 3 days per week on-site
Rate: £565 per day Umbrella
Duration: 6 months initially
Role Overview
Thales are seeking an Engineering Delivery Manager / Systems Engineering Manager to support several projects with a major international customer within the Maritime sector. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across a portfolio of engineering projects at different stages of the systems lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide engineering delivery leadership across multiple projects and workstreams operating at varying stages of the systems lifecycle.
- Address engineering management shortfalls and establish appropriate technical governance, processes, controls and delivery assurance.
- Lead and coordinate engineering activities across systems, hardware, integration, verification and validation disciplines.
- Manage the technical delivery of equipment, ensuring appropriate integration, verification, test and acceptance activities are planned and executed.
- Review engineering maturity, identify technical gaps and develop recovery/improvement plans where required.
- Identify, assess and manage technical risks, dependencies, interfaces and engineering constraints.
- Develop strategic plans to reduce accumulated technical debt and improve system maintainability, reliability and lifecycle performance.
- Identify emerging technology and component obsolescence risks and develop appropriate mitigation, replacement or redesign strategies.
- Support engineering decision-making through technical analysis, lifecycle assessment and risk-based prioritisation.
- Ensure engineering deliverables, technical documentation and evidence are aligned with required verification, validation and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with engineering, programme, suppliers and customer stakeholders to ensure technical issues are driven through to resolution.
- Provide technical status, engineering risk and delivery reporting to senior stakeholders. xgikmsk
Key Skillset
Essential
- Proven experience in Engineering Delivery Management, Systems Engineering Management or a closely related senior engineering leadership role.
- Strong Systems Engineering and/or Hardware Enginee Please click on the apply button to read the full job description
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