Engineering Delivery Manager in Newtownabbey

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. 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.

Integrated Airspace Protection Systems (IAS) Our main purpose is to protect and defend. We provide rapid integrated solutions for detection, coordination, fire control, engagement and support. We cover three sectors: Surface Attack & Air Defence (UK), Air Defence (International) and Air Operations & Services as well as Space.

An opportunity has arisen within our engineering group for an Engineering Delivery Manager who can apply their experience and skills leading a multidiscipline team, designing and developing innovative technical solutions that meet our customer requirements and business needs. The role covers all aspects of the solution and product lifecycle, from requirements capture and analysis through system specification, concept studies, modelling and simulation, design and development, system integration, validation and qualification.

Principal role and relationships: The successful candidate will direct and manage engineers on a project or bid to achieve company objectives in terms of programme schedule, financial and quality targets. The successful candidate will ensure that engineering processes are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative, regulatory and international standards. This role includes management responsibility for the project engineering strategy, direction and team. The role is likely to require interaction with UK and international customers, end-users, industrial partners and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Directing and providing overall technical and engineering leadership to the team to deliver the engineering solution to time, cost and quality, managing design decisions and resolution of conflicts.
• Ensuring the timely and accurate production of the Requirements for the System and Subsystems and ensuring that IVVQ and sell-off of the requirements is planned, documented and achieved in a progressive and low risk manner.
• Ensuring that the design and technical certification is planned, co-ordinated, complete and coherent and provided for business approval and delivery.
• Plan, manage and coordinate the whole engineering activities within the constraints provided by the agreed architecture and design policy in order to satisfy requirements.
• Define Work Breakdown Structures, Organisation Breakdown Structures and associated tasks, tailoring the development process and ensuring achievement of the development baselines (functional, allocated and product).
• Define and tailor the engineering environment, optimising the technical work against costs, schedule and risks from design to validation and acceptance of the solution.
• Supporting the Programme Manager in proactively managing Risks & Opportunities during the development, integration and qualification phases, guarantees programme commitments, including those flown down to subcontractors and partners.

Experience: The role will require proven experience of and participation in one or more of the following activities:

• Managing the development and validation of innovative and cost effective solutions and their architectures which meet the design requirements within the constraints of the programme budget and schedule.
• Managing engineering delivery across multiple disciplines acting as focal point for the resolution of all issues, problems, questions and conflicts across engineering activities.
• Evaluating system requirements and establishing the feasibility and design approach within area of expertise.
• Specifying system design criteria within area of expertise, particularly with respect to performance, engineering features, interfaces and testing requirements.
• Monitoring and analysing technical progress to ensure compliance against the design requirements and schedules.
• Engineering leadership of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Ability to build and sustain good working relationships and work closely in teams, with colleagues, managers, customers and stakeholders.
• Effective personal organisation with an ability to remain composed and focused under pressure.
• Knowledge of relevant development lifecycles.
• Requirements capture, analysis, decomposition/dissemination and management.
• Ability to develop innovative and low risk practical engineering approaches and strategies to manage a complex project through its lifecycle.
• Cost and schedule planning of engineering activities.
• Managing a project through systems requirements analysis and development, architecture design and development through to Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification (IVVQ) of the solution.

Minimum educational requirements: You will have a Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience. Masters Degree (Meng, MSc) or postgraduate level in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics-related subject is also an advantage.

At 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.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. If 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.