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.
Senior Engineering Manager
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineering Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of a Senior Engineering Manager in the Sea business.
This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME. This role will be part of the leadership team for a large multi-entity delivery team focussed on specific development within the Sea business.
As a Senior Engineering Manager you will work in collaboration with the overall Programme Director, the Senior Programme Managers, the Sea Portfolio Engineering Manager and the Head of Engineering Delivery to lead the design and development through to qualification and acceptance for development and production projects within OME and the Sea business.
In this role you will be responsible for:
forming and leading high performing, large multi-discipline and multi-entity engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
producing the strategy that will ensure delivery of all engineering aspects of the programme whilst meeting the governance required within the business
working with the Programme Manager and Programme Director to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs
defining the project specific processes, practices and tools to be used to ensure delivery
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