About the role
Location: Glasgow, 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.
Optronics & Missile Electronics (OME)
We help forces to find the right information at the right time to make the right decision. For over 130 years we’ve proudly led the development of Optronics for military, scientific and commercial use. We cover three sectors: Air, Land and Sea.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Delivery Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of Engineering Delivery Manager within the Sea business.
This role will be part of the team on the largest in-service support programme within OME. This role will lead the engineering delivery team who are focussed on specific support projects within the programme.
As the Engineering Delivery Manager you will work in collaboration with the Programme Managers, Project Design Authorities and the wider engineering team, as well as working in collaboration with the Senior Engineering Delivery Manager for Sea and the Head of Engineering Delivery to ensure delivery of the engineering aspects of the full programme.
In this role you will be responsible for:
Reporting of the monthly engineering delivery metrics for the overall programme to the Programme Director and Senior Engineering Delivery Manager for Sea
Representing OME at the Monthly Engineering Forum for the programme
Collaborating with the Programme Platform Integration Manger to ensure alignment to the high level programme priorities
Acting as the People Manager for the engineering team on the programme, providing feedback into the people manager reviews supported by the Senior Engineering Delivery Manager for Sea
Leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering…
