Senior Engineering Manager Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Engineering Manager within Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics.
This role requires leading, planning, and managing engineering delivery across multiple programmes within the Sea business sector as part of the senior leadership team.
The successful candidate will work in collaboration with the Director of the Sea business sector, Senior Programme Managers, the Sea Product Line Architect, and the Head of Engineering Delivery to ensure that design, development, and qualification programmes are deliverable within agreed costs, schedule, and quality.
Key Responsibilities:
* Forming and supporting multi-disciplinary engineering delivery teams to generate engineering solutions meeting customer needs.
* Supporting engineering delivery teams with day-to-day interventions on specific problems and issue management within the Sea business sector.
* Producing the business sector strategy ensuring delivery of all engineering programmes while meeting governance requirements.
* Collaborating with the Director of the Sea business sector to define organisation and work breakdown required to deliver programmes.
* Working with the Head of Engineering Delivery to define strategy for process, practice, and tool tailoring to ensure delivery success across all programmes in the Sea business sector.
* Overseeing engineering resourcing levels and working with the wider business to resolve any shortfalls and issues.
* Chairing regular Engineering Status Reviews for each project within the Sea business sector to monitor engineering delivery performance, identify resolution actions required, and emerging risks.
* Attending and leading critical programme reviews (technical and delivery).
* Taking on a project Engineering Manager role for projects or programmes requiring significant issue resolution.
* Working with the Product Line Architect to identify re-use opportunities across projects and programmes and contributing to the Product Roadmap.
* Producing and coordinating succession planning with functional discipline leads.
The successful candidate will have an extensive background in engineering and engineering management on large programmes, with demonstrable experience in defining and leading delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects.
They will be highly customer-focused, with excellent communication skills, and able to work in a fast-moving environment with multiple parallel objectives.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:
* Acting with agility to maintain focus on business objectives.
* Dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives.
* Engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal.
* Creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities, and fostering continuous improvement.
* Supporting the development of others to continuously improve for customers.
This role reports to the Head of Engineering Delivery.