Total 11 Manager level Engineering job vacancies in Glasgow, Glasgow, G2 6HQ

The Corporate Transformation & Workplace Directorate will be responsible for many programmes and initiatives, critical to the ongoing development of SG as we grow. The Transformation Design and Architecture Division is home to people with business, data and digital architecture, design and analysis skills and expertise. We will develop the shared understanding of what the future state for corporate services needs to look like, and the stepping stones we will need to take to get there. Understanding our target business architecture, our overall data strategy for corporate services, and the components that together make up the ‘corporate platform’ will be key to our success.

Our team will also support programmes or projects that become initiatives in our roadmap. The Shared Services Programme is the first of these and is transforming our finance and HR services by moving to a standard set of best practice processes and features and adopting a new integrated cloud platform.

This initial focus of this new, varied and rewarding role will be to support the Shared Services Programme but, in time, to work across the entire corporate transformation portfolio of change projects. It will afford you the opportunity to progress into a role that offers autonomy in how you manage your workload, engage with stakeholders at all levels, be involved in organisational initiatives and transformational projects which will also enable your personal development.

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•Lead, oversee and support the work of a core team of Data Analysts, Architects and engineers as we transform and modernise our corporate services
•Lead the delivery of a modern data platform for corporate data to ensure we gain best value from our investments and our decisions are informed by good data.
•Work closely with colleagues across the data community, helping to foster a Data Architecture Community of Practice, within the wider Scottish Data Community, to encourage consistent approaches, the exchange of expertise, and peer review/support
across the Scottish Public Sector.
•Coordinating with peers from different design and architecture disciplines across Corporate Transformation, to design and deliver coherent corporate solutions.
•Develop our data engineering capability in Corporate Transformation as we build innovative corporate solutions
•Build a robust data integration framework ensuring our integrations are secure, flexible and adaptable.
•Embrace opportunities to enhance our publication of open data, enabling greater transparency in public services.
•Work with the Chief Architect to help build our the portfolio of strategic change, ensuring investment in data is a key corporate priority.

Essential Criteria:
1. Extensive experience of operational Data Architecture across service organisations, and large corporate data estates - translating organisational and local business processes and policies into coherent data models, appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards.
2. Practical experience of Data Engineering and physical data modelling in large complex organisations, simplifying existing architecture and data pipelines for efficiency and deduplication. Experience delivering solutions within the Data Lake and Data Mesh paradigms.
3. Experience of encouraging operational process change, to enable interoperability, through data governance and organisational governance frameworks.
4. Experience of building high performing data capabilities within an organisation.

Escape Recruitment are working with an existing client who is a specialised Mechanical Services Contractor to recruit for an exciting opportunity. Our client is looking to hire an experienced Mechanical Project Manager to join their team, where they would be responsible for overseeing and managing projects related to mechanical engineering in various industry sectors such as construction, manufacturing, and transportation.

You would work on up to 15 projects at any one time, ranging from 1 day to 6 weeks and with a value from circa £1,000 - £500,000 installations.

The role:

• Review handover information from estimating team.
• Arrange site meetings/ site visits and prestart meetings.
• Plan all works including but not limited to job pack, programme, RAMS, CPP (where applicable), drawings and sketches and material lists.
• Arrange plant/equipment and materials deliveries and arrange engineers to attend through the Operations Director and Contract Manager.
• Clear communication with clients throughout all works to completion.
• Manage quality of work, spend and report on margin.
• Solve engineering issues.
• Report H&S issues to the Business Director.
• Occasionally price variations on your job and get instruction.
• Attend weekly Operational meetings for labour planning and monthly job margin reviews.

About you:

• SVQ Level 3 Mechanical Engineering/ Construction Management or ideally relevant Mechanically biased qualification.
• Experience in managing multiple mechanical engineering projects at any time.
• Knowledge of HVAC systems ideally.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team environment.

Get in touch or apply today for more information!

Engineering Leader - Product Development (Design Engineering Manager)

Glasgow

10 years of R&D, 60+ patents, multiple awards, 2 priority products, 1 great opportunity.

Katrick Technologies are changing the future of renewable energy and as their new Engineering Leader you'll be set the challenge of taking their innovative Wind Panels to the next step of product development.

You won't be facing this challenge alone, you'll be leading a team of highly skilled and knowledgeable engineers and supported by a company that's committed to innovation, learning and collaboration.

The team at Katrick use the line, "we don't rotate, we oscillate" in reference to the initial difference you'll spot between their products when compared to traditional wind turbines, but that's not all they do differently. They blend the technical knowledge and skills of their engineering team with the commercial and industrial experience of both the individual leaders within their business and their numerous well-known and well-respected corporate and academic partners. They see themselves as bringing on the next generation of Greentech experts and they take that responsibility seriously with commitments to professional development and growth, knowledge sharing, coaching and support.

Why would you love this job?

• You'll join a multi-award-winning company with ground-breaking, commercially viable Greentech startup, funded by green-investors.
• You'll report to a Commercial and Engineering Director who will give you space to lead your team whilst supporting you achieve your goals.
• You'll be leading a team of highly skilled engineering professionals already knowledgeable with Katrick Technologies.
• You will be working on technology that has been showcased by the BBC.
• You'll be working with renowned experts, and major blue-chip clients and partners.
• You'll have clear plans and objectives already in place for you with products that have been exceeding their goals at each stage in development to date.
• You'll have the opportunity to grow your team.

• You'll be working in a modern, 21st century office in the heart of Glasgow city centre.
• You'll be rewarded with an excellent package of benefits including share options.

What will make you successful in this role?

• You'll have a degree in Engineering or related field.
• You'll bring experience of product prototype and product development with you as well as a working knowledge of mechanical design.
• You'll be experienced in and motivated by team leadership, coaching and development.
• You'll enjoy bringing creativity and innovation to your work.

If you want to find out more or are already convinced this is the opportunity you've been looking for, get in touch with Dan Stewart, appointed recruiter for this position at Escape Recruitment Services.

The role: Electrical Engineering Manager

My client is an established key player in the high precision re-manufacturing industry, primarily focused on the design, manufacture and selling of equipment, consumables and knowledge transfer into the global semiconductor, geological and optical engineering markets. Their equipment delivers unrivalled accuracy, precision and repeatability.

Approximately 60% of all systems sold incorporate customer specific engineering content, making their output very low volume, high cost. They sell direct and through dealerships worldwide.

All Engineering design, machining and assembly are conducted on site.

They are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead a multidisciplinary team of electrical/electronic and mechanical engineers.
Essential characteristics:
* Highly driven, results-oriented and organised individual with a proven track record of successfully leading new product development and/or production engineering activities within a small to medium business setting.
* Degree qualified in Electrical / Electronics or software engineering, alongside a proven track record of managing the mechanical engineering aspects of electro-mechanical equipment.
* Leadership and management experience, acting as both mentor and facilitator to achieve the strategic and commercial aims of the business and your department.
* Experience of managing the handover and support requirements for new products.
* Acting as the voice of engineering during design reviews, quality and fault reviews and production meetings.
* Able to effectively appraise capability and resource constraints and communicate issues with candour to all levels of the business, with the appetite and drive to improve the current status-quo.
* Prior involvement in the creation, maintenance, and enforcement of department processes.
* Lead personal development activities and SMART objective setting for the team, managing, and monitoring of KPI's to ensure individual and collective responsibilities are met.
* Customer support experience with in-field issues.
* Willingness to assist in engineering data creation where necessary - Electrical schematics / Software applications, CAD and BOM data, wherever applicable and within the scope of prior experience.


Desirable characteristics
* Knowledge of Semiconductor manufacturing equipment, or similar precision integrated electromechanical equipment.
* Experience of the following software packages:

o SolidWorks + SolidWorks data management
o LabVIEW
o E3 electrical engineering software.
o Sage x3 or similar MRP system
o Q-pulse or similar quality management software.
* Experience of ISO9001:2015, 14001 and 45001
* Experience of recruitment and on-boarding of engineering staff.

- Please contact me with the below details to discuss your current situation confidentially and if the role might be of interest:-

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Murray Recruitment has an opportunity for a Mechanical Project Manager to join their client who is a specialised Mechanical services contracts based in Glasgow.

As a Mechanical Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing projects related to mechanical engineering in various industry sectors such as construction, manufacturing, and transportation.

Projects will be up to 15 projects at any one time, ranging from 1 day to 6 weeks and value from circa £1000 - £500,000 installations.

Responsibilities include:
Reviewing all handover information from the estimating team.
Arrange site meetings/ site visits and prestart meetings.
Plan all works including but not limited to job pack, programme, RAMS, CPP ( where applicable), drawings and sketches and material lists.
Arrange plant/equipment and materials deliveries.
Arrange engineers to attend through the Operations Director and Contract Manager.
Keep clients informed throughout all works to completion.
Manage quality of work.
Manage spend and report on margin.
Solve engineering issues.
Report H&S issues to the Business Director.
Snag jobs on completion.
Occasionally price variations on your job and get instruction.
Attend weekly Operational meetings for labour planning.
Attend monthly job margin reviews.



Experience/skills
SVQ Level 3 Mechanical Engineering/ Construction Management or ideally relevant Mechanically biased qualification.
Experience in managing mechanical engineering projects ideally managing multiple projects at any time.
Knowledge of HVAC systems ideally.
Excellent communication skills.
Strong leadership skills.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team environment.

Offering
Salary: up to £58,000 depending on experience.
Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm
Company Car
Holidays: 30 days
Pension


If you are interested in this position, please apply today by sending your CV!

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The role: Electrical / Electronics Engineering Manager

My client is an established key player in the high precision re-manufacturing industry, primarily focused on the design, manufacture and selling of equipment, consumables and knowledge transfer into the global semiconductor, geological and optical engineering markets. Their equipment delivers unrivalled accuracy, precision and repeatability.

Approximately 60% of all systems sold incorporate customer specific engineering content, making their output very low volume, high cost. They sell direct and through dealerships worldwide.

All Engineering design, machining and assembly are conducted on site.

They are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead a multidisciplinary team of electrical/electronic and mechanical engineers.

Essential characteristics:

* Highly driven, results-oriented and organised individual with a proven track record of successfully leading new product development and/or production engineering activities within a small to medium business setting.
* Degree qualified in Electrical / Electronics or software engineering, alongside a proven track record of managing the mechanical engineering aspects of electro-mechanical equipment.
* Leadership and management experience, acting as both mentor and facilitator to achieve the strategic and commercial aims of the business and your department.
* Experience of managing the handover and support requirements for new products.
* Acting as the voice of engineering during design reviews, quality and fault reviews and production meetings.
* Able to effectively appraise capability and resource constraints and communicate issues with candour to all levels of the business, with the appetite and drive to improve the current status-quo.
* Prior involvement in the creation, maintenance, and enforcement of department processes.
* Lead personal development activities and SMART objective setting for the team, managing, and monitoring of KPI's to ensure individual and collective responsibilities are met.
* Customer support experience with in-field issues.
* Willingness to assist in engineering data creation where necessary - Electrical schematics / Software applications, CAD and BOM data, wherever applicable and within the scope of prior experience.

Desirable characteristics

* Knowledge of Semiconductor manufacturing equipment, or similar precision integrated electromechanical equipment.
* Experience of the following software packages:

o SolidWorks + SolidWorks data management
o LabVIEW
o E3 electrical engineering software.
o Sage x3 or similar MRP system
o Q-pulse or similar quality management software.
* Experience of ISO9001:2015, 14001 and 45001
* Experience of recruitment and on-boarding of engineering staff.

- YOU MUST RESIDE IN THE UK OR HAVE RIGHT TO WORK STATUS IN THE UK OR YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT PROCEED...

Please contact me with the below details to discuss your current situation confidentially and if the role might be of interest:-

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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 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.

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

This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME. This role will be part of the leadership team for a large delivery team focussed on specific development and support projects within the Sea business.

As a Senior Engineering Manager you will work in collaboration with the overall Programme Director, the Senior Programme Managers and the Head of Engineering Delivery to lead the design and development through to qualification and acceptance for development and production projects within OME and the Sea business.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• forming and leading high performing, large multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
• producing the strategy that will ensure delivery of all engineering aspects of the programme whilst meeting the governance required within the business
• working with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs
• defining the project specific processes, practices and tools to be used to ensure delivery
• defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within
• the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality
• the day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks
• managing and reporting the engineering efficiency for the project
• the identification of re-use opportunities across the project
• the alignment of the project defined solution to the Product Roadmap
• acting as the People Manager 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 an extensive background in engineering and engineering management on large programmes with demonstrable experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly 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 naval products would be beneficial to this role.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:

• acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
• 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 ensure we continuously improve for our customers

This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery.

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!

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 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.

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!

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 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.

Engineering Manager Job Description

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

This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME. This role will be part of a large delivery team focussed on specific development and support projects within the Sea business.

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

In this role you will be responsible for:

• leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
• the definition of the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project
• managing the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme
• work with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs
• defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within
• the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality
• day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks
• managing and reporting of the engineering efficiency for the project
• the identification of re-use opportunities across the project
• act as the People Manager 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 with experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly 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 naval products would be beneficial to this role.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:

• acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
• 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 ensure we continuously improve for our customers

This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery.

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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!

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 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.

Engineering Manager Job Description

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

This role will be on one of the largest development and production projects within OME. This role will be part of a large delivery team focussed on specific development and support projects within the Sea business.

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

In this role you will be responsible for:

• leading high performing, multi-discipline engineering teams to generate engineering solutions that meet the Customer needs
• the definition of the engineering delivery strategy and resource profile based on the engineering estimates to ensure the delivery of the project
• managing the interfaces with the overall delivery strategy for the wider programme
• work with the Programme Manager to define the organisation and work breakdown required to deliver to the Customer needs
• defining the engineering team’s work packages in terms of resources required, budgets assigned to each task, risks and assumptions on these and the timescales to deliver within
• the planning and prioritisation of activities required to deliver the solution to the contract schedule, costs and quality
• day to day management of the engineering team’s activities ensuring proactive management of issues, opportunities and risks
• managing and reporting of the engineering efficiency for the project
• the identification of re-use opportunities across the project
• act as the People Manager 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 with experience in successfully defining and leading the delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects. They will be highly 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 naval products would be beneficial to this role.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioural Model:

• acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
• 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 ensure we continuously improve for our customers

This role will work closely with the Programme Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects. This role will report to the Head of Engineering Delivery.

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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!

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £20.5 billion in low carbon projects to 2027, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a critical role in the net zero transition, as we aim to more than treble the net capacity in operation to 13GW and grow renewable energy output five-fold to over 50TWh over the next 10 years.

SSE Pacifico was formed in October 2021 to deliver offshore wind projects in Japan. SSE Pacifico is progressing a 6GW portfolio of early stage development opportunities by leveraging SSE Renewables' expertise in developing, constructing and operating offshore wind farms with Pacifico Energy's extensive local experience in Japan in local preparatory development work.

Join us on our journey to net zero and help us power change.

About the Role

Base Location: Tokyo, Japan

Salary: Competitive + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and coordinate all engineering activities and deliverables across development and construction of offshore wind farms in Japan.

You'll be responsible for:

- Interfacing between Japanese and European technical teams and supporting the leadership of the technical project team.

- Managing engineering inputs to projects including permits and statutory consents during development phases.

- Leading the definition of technical requirements and managing initial engineering work packages.

- Ensuring design integrity, compliance, and technical risk management.

- Coordinating technical project side to ensure aspects such as LCOE, constructability and operability are evaluated.

- Actively engaging with stakeholders and supply chain, including contributing to bid strategies and due diligence processes.

- Contributing to research and development including the exploration of new technical solutions.

What do I need?

We're looking for someone who can transfer sound technical expertise and experience in offshore wind into the Japanese market. You'll be a safety conscious leader with focus on developing a high performing engineering team.

You will have:

- Experience in supporting development, design, engineering and construction phases of power generation or transmission aspects relating to offshore wind projects.

- The ability to work at the start up stage of a project, with experience of developing systems, standards and processes.

- Strong decision making skills and the ability to take initiative and be result oriented.

- Communication skills that support effective working, networking and influencing with people from multiple nationalities and cultures.

This role is based in Tokyo, Japan and we encourage applications from people already based there or willing to relocate.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for 'Inclusion & Diversity at SSE' to find out more.

What happens now?

All applications should be made online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working flexibly requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact Douglas on 01738 275199.

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.