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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

Hardware Engineering Manager

Crawley

Closing date for applications Thursday 19th January 2023

Are you an inquisitive individual that has a passion for Manufacturing? Are you looking for your next challenge with the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team that will support with your learning and development? Then look no further …

Thales UK have an exciting opportunity for an motivated and talented Hardware Engineering Manager to work within Defence Mission Systems (DMS), specifically our Maritime Mission Systems (MMS) business unit; a team dedicated to working on some of the next generation, cutting edge sonar technologies for surface ships and submarines.

The Hardware Engineering Manager (HwEM) is responsible for the completion of a set of engineering tasks within the committed cost, schedule, performance and quality. The related tasks may cover part or all the range of activities regarding customer needs, mission, function, architectural design, and life cycle of the hardware solution (requirements and speciality engineering, design, development, integration and verification).

They ensure Hardware Engineering activity management within constraints provided by the Solution Engineering Manager, the Solution and Hardware Architects.

In this capacity the Hardware Engineering Manager:

• Defines the Hardware development cycle in consistency with that of upper/same level elements (dependencies, co-engineering activities).

• Tailors the Hardware engineering environment (process, practices and tools) according to Company and Project requirements.

• Allocates responsibilities to individual contributors.

• Participates in the specification of the functions and interfaces of products to be developed.

• Participates in the definition of the architecture, and the allocation of functions, to the components for which they have primary responsibility.

The HwEM may also carry out the role of Work Package Manager which is defined in a separate job description as a cross-functional role.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

Key responsibilities and tasks carried out by the Hardware Engineering Manager, principally DDQS, are captured in the following Chorus 2.0 Role definitions:

• HwEM: Hardware Engineering Manager

• HwIVQM: Integration, Verification & Qualification Manager

• WPM: Work Package Manager

• CM: Configuration Manager

A summary of the key tasks includes:

• Generation/maintenance of the Hardware Engineering Management Plan (HEMP)

• Management of Hardware Engineering deliverables throughout the product lifecycle.

• Cost and schedule adherence

• Management of expectations of key stakeholders (Solution Engineering Manager, Project Manager, Industrial Manager & Product Manager)

• Resource Management

• Milestone delivery performance

• Organisation and Co-ordination of all Design Reviews & Independent Technical Reviews in accordance with the agreed lifecycle process

• Generation of hardware engineering estimates as part of company bids

• Engineering Quality and Performance

• Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification Management of the Hardware Solution

• Engineering governance, metrics and reporting

• Risk and Opportunity management

About you

Thales is committing to hiring individuals with a “can do” and positive attitude with a willingness to learn and improve on skills and knowledge. Here are some of key attributes, experience and skills we are looking for in our next Hardware Architect:

• Responsible for ensuring that their team executes its tasks within the agreed budget.

• Level 6 Qualification in a hardware engineering related discipline e.g. BEng(Hons) Electronic or Mechanical Engineering

• Evidence of the ability to lead and motivate a team of people to achieve a goal is important

• Knowledge of the Chorus 2.0 Design, Develop and Qualify the Solution (Hardware) Process Lifecycle, or equivalent ISO9001 compliant engineering management system

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

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.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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