Total 11 engineering job vacancies in crawley rh10 1ej

Job Title: Project Manager - Engineering
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £42,245 - £47,215 dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59358

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Project Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role
As an Engineering Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be helping to support managing aging assets to ensure the Royal Navy submarines are kept safe, available and capable.

Day-to-day, you'll be developing and applying engineering domain knowledge and project management best practice to assist in the development of technical and project solutions:

• Application of technical engineering knowledge
• Project controls support across schedule management
• Risk and opportunity management
• Change management
• Budgeting and cost control

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Engineering Project Manager:

• Extensive experience of managing projects on high value assets, within a regulated environment
• Proven success of developing and applying engineering management arrangements.
• Proven experience of managing engineering outputs and technical teams.

Qualifications for the Engineering Project Manager:

• A bachelor's degree in engineering or technology or appropriate further learning and experience
• Registered with a professional body at the IEng status, or capable and engaged in structured development towards its achievement - company will actively support the right candidate in working towards this

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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Job Title: Engineering Technician
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £36,620 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58468

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Technician at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role
As an Engineering Technician, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll join a team working on one of the most complex support arrangements in operation in the UK today. You will manage this by ensuring that you know what is fitted to every Royal Navy submarine, where it is fitted, who supplies it and how it is fitted.

Day-to-day, you'll provide support and be responsible for design information management for all of in service Royal Navy Submarines.

• Maintain the configuration data, document and drawings for all items as fitted to Royal Navy submarines in accordance with a configuration management plan
• Maintain a record of the status of extant submarine technical documentation to ensure quality assurance is achieved and maintained.
• Ensure all design change management documentation is managed and maintained correctly within the Submarine Definition Database (SDD)
• Work as part of a team as a subject matter expert across Babcock, the Royal Navy, MoD and industry partners

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Engineering Technician

• Experienced Engineering Technician from a highly regulated industry
• Experience in using engineering documentation (such as drawings and technical records)
• Understanding of change management and the control of project and engineering documentation
• Ability to work independently, challenge the status quo and make judgments based on incomplete information is essential
• Strong communication skills and ability to converse at all levels

Qualifications for the Engineering Technician

• ONC/BTEC level 3 qualifications in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics discipline however we will consider applicants that can demonstrate relevant vocational experience if this isn't held
• Hold, or be willing to proactively work towards, professional recognition as an Engineering Technician with an appropriate Engineering Institution.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Potential to develop skills.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 20/08/2024

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We are currently recruiting for a Engineering Manager. Have you got experience within the residential sector? We have a role in Crawley for you!

• Role: Engineering Manager
• Location: Crawley
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Start: ASAP
• Salary: £65,000 + package
• Fawkes and Reece Contract: Chelsey Potter (Brighton)

The Company:

In the role of Engineering Manager, you will find yourself working for a leading housing developer who has a big focus on quality, design, and environmental responsibility. You would see your self working with a growing team in a dynamic and modern work environment with a strong pipeline of developments over the next year.

The role:

As the Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in overseeing the engineering aspects of their housing projects from initial design through to completion. You will ensure that their developments meet regulatory requirements, adhere to quality standards, and are delivered on time and within budget which will drive the success of their developments.

• Manage, Engage all external consultants where required in the production of technical information
• Manage the design and development of infrastructure for housing projects including roads, drainage and utilities
• Collaborate with architects, planners, contractors and local authorities to obtain necessary approvals and permits
• Conduct site assessments and surveys to identify potential challenges and develop solutions accordingly
• Monitor project progress, budgets and schedules - implementing adjustments as needed
• Ensure compliance with the relevant regulations, standards, and health and safety guidelines

About you:

• Degree in Engineering
• Proven experience in Housing development projects
• proficiency in CAD software
• Strong understanding of utilities management and infrastructure development
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams
• Detail orientated with a focus on quality and accuracy
• Knowledge of relevant regulations and building codes

What to do next:

If this role meets your expectations and aspirations, click the apply link now or email: cpotter@fr-group.co.uk to arrange a confidential consultation

Job Title: Head of Production Engineering
Location: Bristol / Andover / Donnington
Compensation: £80,000 - £90,000 + Car Allowance
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56812

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as our Head of Production Engineering at our Bristol or Andover sites.

The Role
As the Head of Production Engineering you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for guiding our production facilities through a significant period of change.

Day-to-day, you'll lead on the strategy to design, planning and deployment of automated manufacturing capabilities.

• Lead in the transformation to an industry 4.0 operating environment
• Lead and direct the engineering platform support teams across sites
• Develop and manage the supply chain requirements
• Provide technical and engineering support to the operations team
• Make recommendations for facility capital expenditures in support of wider strategy

This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements

Experience required of the Head of Production Engineering

• Strong background in production engineering
• Experience of introducing advanced manufacturing / automation systems
• Experience of leading multi-discipline teams
• Have lead business through change / transformation

Qualifications for the Head of Production Engineering

• Degree qualified in relevant engineering subject
• Chartered engineer status or working towards

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Flexible locations.
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
• Growth opportunities.
• The honour and responsibility of equipping our armed forces.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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Your new company
Nestled in a vibrant community, this distinguished school is a beacon of academic excellence. With a commitment to nurturing well-rounded individuals, it offers a diverse range of programs and extracurricular activities. State-of-the-art facilities and dedicated educators create an environment where students thrive intellectually and socially, preparing them for a future of success.


Your Role
Paid to Scale (MPS / UPS)
We are actively seeking a talented and motivated Secondary DT Teacher with expertise in Engineering and Product Design to join our school community, commencing in January. This position offers a long-term placement, with the potential for permanency for the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

* Deliver high-quality teaching in Design Technology with a focus on Engineering and Product Design at the secondary level.
* Inspire and engage students through innovative and practical learning experiences.
* Foster creativity, problem-solving skills, and a passion for design within the classroom.
* Contribute to the development and enhancement of the Design Technology curriculum.
* Collaborate with colleagues to create a dynamic and inclusive learning environment.
* Provide constructive feedback and assessment to support student progress.

Qualifications and Requirements:

* Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent teaching qualification.
* Specialisation or significant experience in teaching Engineering and Product Design at the secondary level.
* Proficiency in utilising relevant tools, software, and technology related to the field.
* Strong communication and organisational skills.
* Enthusiasm for staying current with advancements in design and engineering.

If you are a dedicated and innovative DT teacher with a passion for inspiring the next generation of designers and engineers, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and contribute to shaping the future success of our students in the dynamic field of Design Technology.



What you need to do now
If you believe you have vision, drive, flair, and would relish the opportunity of working in a variety of successful and forward-looking schools, then we would welcome your application.
If you are looking for more temporary work, such as day-to-day supply or more long-term roles, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. If you know of other education professionals looking for supply, long-term or permanent work, you can also receive £250 worth of vouchers every time you recommend a colleague to Hays Education.
We at Hays Education are committed to the safeguarding of children, and the successful applicant will be subject to satisfactory reference checks and an enhanced DBS police check.

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Engineering Delivery Manager

Location: Crawley

Would you like an Engineering leadership role with a specific focus on Bids and Projects?  Are you looking for your next challenge and want to make it an exciting one? Then Apply now!

What the role has to offer:

• Work strategically on key bids and projects!  

• Work for a team with well thought out and defined career pathways, offering exposure to a variety of responsibilities.

About the role:

Thales Training & Simulation team (TTS) have an outstanding opportunity for an Engineering Delivery Manager to join the team. The Engineering Delivery Manager’s role will be to specifically focus on Bids and Projects, leading the engineering team to define, develop and deliver the solution for bids in collaboration with our partners, suppliers and the customer/end-user.

As the Engineering Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for all engineering management aspects of the TS Solution, ensuring that technical governance and strategy is defined for the life of the contract. You will assume full responsibility for the delivery, management and development of the Engineering Management Plan. 

Day to day you will:

• Define the Engineering team’s WBS and OBS, the engineering lifecycle, the schedule of work and the engineering management plan.

• Direct and lead the team to achieve the project stage reviews and milestones to cost, schedule and acceptable quality.

• Ensure successful Customer Acceptance of the ES solution.

• Provide strong technical leadership to ensure the solution is matured such that it will satisfy the requirements and achieve acceptance, accreditation and certification.

• Manage project and technical risk and opportunity.

• Implement an objective and predictive monitoring regime to enable early identification of issues and risks, and definition of recovery actions to ensure on time acceptable delivery is achieved.

• Ensure that all activities are conducted in a safe manner and that both equipment and personnel safety aspects are properly addressed throughout the Project in line with Legal and Company requirements.

• Work collaboratively with the wider project team, alliance partner, customer/end-user, functions, suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure the Project Team successfully delivers against commitments to the internal and external customers.

About you

You will a background in Engineering with a strong focus on bid and project work. You will have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels. You should be well versed in dealing with complexity; navigating issues, questions and potential blockers quickly and efficiently to resolution.  Alongside this, the following skills and experience will be key to your success in the role:

• Experience as an Engineering leader, able to drive the establishment of a proactive and dynamic team culture where all team members are encouraged and supported to operate to their full capability. 

• Proven capability for complex systems development working across the whole product lifecycle.

• A sound understanding of System Engineering principles, processes and practices

• Strong interpersonal soft skills and excellent communication

• Commercially knowledgeable and astute.

• Focus on Customers/End-Users

• Experience of training solution development, integration and acceptance. (desirable)

• Contract negotiations and dispute resolution (desirable)

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.

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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.

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

Systems Engineering and Architecting Team Lead

Thales Avionics in Crawley is looking for a Systems Engineering & Architecting Lead who will inspire the improvement of best practices within System discipline, ensuring that they are mastered effectively. A key role acting as a privileged point of contact on complex subjects and take on an educational role so that their team can reach discipline excellence and deliver competitive solutions within a multidisciplinary environment.

If you see yourself as managers-coaches serving engineers and offering a diverse and inclusive environment with hungry humble aware values. Acting as guardians of an engineering discipline excellence in a learning environment which contribute to highly competitive realisations (Quality, Attractiveness, Cost, Lead time). Then this role could be just right for you.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the Discipline Practices and Tools tailoring and deployment (including digitisation, automation, data management) across Projects and Products
• Be responsible for the adoption of new technologies
• Ensure the capitalisation and sharing of knowledge and assets (building blocks, cost estimating models, best practices, etc.)
• Foster continuous improvement based on root cause analysis, problem solving, new practice deployment
• Manage people within your discipline and ensure their development (skills management, coaching, career development, mind-set), the adequacy with the expected needs (quality and quantity) at the right time and the allocation to the Bids and Projects
• Perform technical reviews associated with their discipline on Bids/Products and Projects
• Ensure Operational Subject Matter Experts allocate part of their time to coach engineering people and to train people about the Domain activities

We are looking for:

As a Systems Engineering & Architecting - Discipline Management Role within Thales, you will:

• Take in charge the Discipline Practices and Tools tailoring and deployment (including digitisation, automation, data management) across Projects and Products
• Be responsible for the adoption of new technologies
• Ensure the capitalisation and sharing of knowledge and assets (building blocks, cost estimating models, best practices, etc.)
• Foster continuous improvement based on root cause analysis, problem solving, new practice deployment, …
• Manage people within your discipline and ensure their development (skills management, coaching, career development, mind-set), the adequacy with the expected needs (quality and quantity) at the right time and the allocation to the Bids and Projects
• Perform technical reviews associated with their discipline on Bids/Products and Projects
• Ensure Operational Subject Matter Experts allocate part of their time to coach engineering people and to train people about the Domain activities

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your Competencies in different areas, these include your own personal development,
Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path. With further opportunities to build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

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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.

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

Hardware Engineering Manager – Electronic Warfare Solutions

Based in Crawley

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

About the role

Thales Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) design and deliver hardware into Electronic Warfare Solutions for the UK MoD  & export customers and have an exciting opportunity for a Hardware Engineering Manager to join the team in Crawley. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of engineering designs and developments to agreed cost, schedule, performance and quality.

Your focus will be on ensuring that all the disciplines understand their part and that they work together as a team to achieve timely delivery of development milestones. You will oversee a range of activities regarding customer requirements, architectural design, and development and production life cycle of the hardware solution.

You will work in a highly technical, high performing, world class team who are leaders in this their business area. You will play a key part in new state of the art products and developments in the field of fully digital Electronic Warfare solutions. The role will provide you with opportunities to gain exposure and develop your skills across Thales.

This role require UK SC level security clearance and is based in Crawley with some flexibility to work from home and occasion UK wide travel to other Thales and customer sites.

Day to day you will

• Manage packages of hardware design work.

• Interpretation and decomposition of system requirements & algorithms.

• Manage hardware design and development activities accross electrical, electronic, mechanical and RF disciplines to deliver the overall hardware solution

• Work with other engineering and support disciplin leads to achieve delivery of the overall programme

• Hardware Integration & Verification.

• Manage test, measurement, debug and verification of the overall hardware solution

• Technical Management of Subcontractors.

• Design Assurance (Complex Electronics).

• Provide Technical assistance to production.

About You

You will have a background in Hardware Engineering and a solid understanding of Engineering Development Lifecycles. The successful applicant will have proven experience leading engineering activity through design & development lifecycles in the defence industry domain. Experience in system integration, platform installation and acceptance in a military environment would also be beneficial.

You will have demonstrable experience of collaborating, leading and pulling together teams, excellent listening skills, logical thinker, driven with a proactive, can do, mentality.

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. Alongside this you will receive a comprehensive salary and benefits package

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

ISR has a new position for a Head of Portfolio Engineering for Electronic Warfare. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to work on an exciting range of high profile projects. To succeed in this role, you will have an engineering background, with a rounded knowledge of hardware systems, software and safety.

You could be working in Project Management and be looking to move into Engineering Management, or be working in Engineering and wanting to expand and diversify your experience, particularly in leadership. The most important thing is that you want to make a difference to ISR and you’ll be confident to raise your own profile at BL and GBU level.

As part of the ISR Engineering Leadership Team, you will have the opportunity to help develop the ISR Engineering Capability supporting the Engineering Director. Therefore, strong engineering leadership is an essential attribute in this role.

What you will be doing:

You will provide the team with leadership and management, spending time mentoring and developing your people, and you will be confident in decision making, sometimes when outside of your own knowledge or expertise.

You will also be involved in engineering management, defining and executing strategy and creating and maintaining the vision of how to get it done.

• Create a learning culture within the team to enable continually improving individual and collective performance.

• Establish and maintain an excellent relationship with the Portfolio Lead, providing them with support and counsel in order to meet the business objectives related to their portfolio.

• As a member of the ISR Engineering Leadership Team, pro-actively contribute to the evolution of engineering capability and performance whilst also ensuring the team provide any necessary support into your own portfolio.

What we're looking for from you:

You should be looking for a challenge across Engineering Management and Leadership. Using your ability to anticipate risks, identify delivery issues early, and mitigate through pro-active recovery plans to avoid cost/schedule/quality impacts, you will lead the Electronic Warfare Portfolio with confidence and considerateness.  

Your sound commercial awareness and ability to balance technical with commercial needs will stand you in good stead to succeed. You will be able to demonstrate significant successful Engineering Leadership and Management competence and experience gained across the acquisition lifecycle with breadth across Systems, Software and Hardware Engineering.

• Providing Leadership - Making Decisions, Leading People, Empowering Individuals

• Driving Success - Taking Action, Seizing Opportunities, Pursuing Goals

• Communicating Information - Influencing People, Articulating Information, Challenging Ideas

• Showing Resilience - Showing Composure, Resolving Conflict

• Evaluating Problems- Examining Information, Documenting Facts, Interpreting Data

• Giving Support- Understanding People, Team Working, Valuing Individuals

• Building Relationships- Interacting with People, Establishing Rapport, Recognising Success

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

Job Title: Automotive Engineer - Design Engineering
Location: UK - Flexible Location + Hybrid Working
Compensation: £ 65,000 - £75,000 + Bonus + Car Package
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54113

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Automotive Engineer.

The Role
As an Automotive Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will oversee the design of a new vehicle that will service the British Military.

Day to day, you'll be responsible for developing, designing and implementing new vehicle design solutions in the interest of meeting current and future customer requirements.

• Developing quality requirements to underpin project delivery activities
• Creating concept designs and detailed blueprints
• Component and system development
• Testing, Analysis and Prototyping
• Managing project budgets

This role is full time / permanent. The successful candidate can be based at any compliant Babcock site within the UK, with a hybrid working from home arrangements. There is a requirement to travel to other sites.

Experience required of the Automotive Engineer

• Background in Automotive Engineering / Design
• Experience of whole vehicle design
• Knowledge of industry specific standards and regulations
• Leadership skills and experience of leading a technical team
• Proficiency in a CAD software e.g. AutoCAD, Solidworks etc

Qualifications for the Automotive Engineer

• Degree qualified in automotive engineering or other relevant subject

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme