About the role
Location: Reading, 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.
Engineering Delivery Manager
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Delivery Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME).
This role will be on at least one of our significant development and production projects within OME. As an Engineering Delivery Manager you will work in collaboration with the Programme Managers, the Engineering Delivery Lead, the Head of Engineering Delivery and the wider engineering team to ensure delivery of the engineering development projects.
In this role you will be responsible for:
leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
the definition of the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project
managing the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme
defining the organisation and work breakdown, with the Programme Manager, required to deliver to the Customer needs
defining and being in charge of meeting cost, schedule and quality of the whole engineering delivery for the programme
defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within
the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality
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