Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
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 – 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.
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