Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Electronic Countermeasures Project Design Authority

Crawley – Relocation support can be provided

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.

We are seeking an Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) Project Design Authority with experience of working within the field of Electronic Warfare, or related fields such as RESM, CESM, ECM or similar. You will have prior knowledge of the key principles of the domain and can quickly grasp the science and technology that sits behind a modern digital EW suite. You may have a military background, having operated EW equipment in the field, or have worked in the design, development or testing of similar products.

The Project Design Authority (PDA) is the “technical partner” of the Project Manager in order to validate all technical choices, organize technical peer reviews, alert on any technical risks in the project and drive corrective actions. The PDA serves as the main interface towards the customer to clarify/negotiate technical scope in order to reduce technical risks and costs.

Role Description

As a Project Design Authority within Thales, you will:

Act as the customer’s technical representation within the project delivery, owning the specification of requirements on their behalf and ensuring that the delivered system meets the customers statement of needsAct as the principle point of escalation for safety and security for the project, liaising with domain design authorities, cyber authorities and safety authorities to ensure the delivery of safe and secure systems to our customersAct as a senior mentor to engineers, guiding their work and ensuring the quality of engineering productsOwn the engineering and technical governance processes within the project, holding the delivery team to account and ensuring adherence with legislative and contractual obligationsWork with systems architects to define and recommend candidate architectures for the corresponding level (solution or solution element) to satisfy stakeholder expectations according to the standards and re-use policies, the technology roadmap and the business strategyAssist in the solution development cycle and in defining the co-engineering approachManage, all along the project life cycle, the assignment of the corresponding level requirements, the management of the performance evaluation and the critical parameters, the definition of the interfaces, the technical negotiation between the different stakeholders (internal or external)

Profile of the successful candidate we are looking for

Graduated with a degree in an engineering or scientific discipline, and you have significant experience in architecture and engineering systemsYou are a leader willing to engage and develop your team through the use of collaborative work and challenging approaches.Detailed experience in one of the following areas:Electronic Counter Measures;Electronic Warfare System Design;RF System Design & Specification;EW TechniquesFamiliar with Concept, Design, Experimentation and Simulation tools, as well as modelling tools (such as MBSE)Experience of Design Assurance & Third Party DevelopmentFamiliar with working with Integration Verification ValidationYou are responsible and show a great sense of initiativeExperienced liaising directly with the customer and managing customer requirements.You are familiar with operational analysisYou are able to work in co-engineering (Lean Thinking, Obeya...)You understand the different actors involved in the project and are able to contextualise and change the perspective (political, economic, social, technical, environmental, legal...)

Your career and life at Thales

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your Competencies in different areas:

Room and attention to personal developmentBuild your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex SolutionChoose between a technical expertise or a leadership pathBuild an international career within a leading Engineering Group

What we can offer

Our packages will include significant bonus, car allowance, a strong pension contribute, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

Security Clearance Statement

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.  Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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