Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

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.

Engineering Work Package Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Work Package Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME). The successful candidate will initially undertake the role of an Engineering Work Package Manager in the Air business. 

As an Engineering Work Package Manager you will work in collaboration with the Programme Managers, the Engineering Delivery Managers, the Head of Engineering Delivery and the wider engineering team to ensure delivery of the engineering projects.

In this role you will be responsible for:

leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needscontributing to and working to the defined engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the projectauthoring the Work Package Description with the WP team based on the project structure and customer requirementsidentifying deliverables, milestones and interdependencies with other WP’sestablishing the schedule and the estimates based on a viable solution, and identify the necessary resources and their availabilityinitialising the risk and opportunity register and the work package baseline using the relevant key project toolsmanaging the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programmedefining the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needsworking with the Engineering Delivery Manager to define and be accountable for meeting cost, schedule and quality for the engineering aspects of the programmethe planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver solutions to the contract schedule, costs and qualityday to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risksmanaging and reporting of the engineering efficiency for the projectthe identification of re-use opportunities across the projectpeople management for the engineering team on the project and provide feedback into the people manager reviews with the functional discipline leads

The successful candidate will have a strong background in engineering and work package management of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be customer focused with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work in a fast moving environment with multiple parallel objectives. Knowledge and experience of air, land and/or naval products would be beneficial to this role.

They will also be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:

acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focusdealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectivesengaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goalcreating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvementsupporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers

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