Job Title: Head of Engineering Delivery
Length: 12 Month Contract Opportunity
Do you have strong stakeholder management paired with good emotional intelligence? Can you build trust within a team and support them through finding difficult solutions? Are you someone who follows through with commitments and has great leadership skills? Got your interest, than look no further…
What the role has to offer:
1. You will be developing future talent within the team who are at the forefront of engineering delivery
2. Be able to think outside the box to solve complex challenges and drive change around engineering competitiveness
3. Ability to influence a large and dynamic engineering team
Our Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity working within OME (Optronics & Missile Electronics), who deliver future products and services to the land, sea and air domains. You will be leading a hardworking and passionate team of people who are responsible for delivering on our engineering commitments.
You will be responsible for deploying the adequate Practices and Tools tailored (for EDM and WPM) to reach the required maturity according to Project/Product delivery challenges. You will also work with the discipline delivery team to make them efficient by identifying gaps and associated actions to support delivery continuous improvement. Additionally, you will be required to capitalise and share knowledge and assets dedicated to delivery discipline.
As well as this, you will manage, develop and allocate people and their skills to products/projects. You will be responsible for taking charge of Delivery Lead Staffing (EDM and WPM) on project/product with respect to PMs’ requests where possible. You will also be required to represent the engineering function in project reviews.
In addition, you will review ‘Engineering Deliverability’ for bids (engineering strategy & plan, schedule, solution maturity, risk reduction & risk mitigations, acceptance strategy, certification, resourcing, E2 strategy, estimates, contingency) in conjunction with HoDs. Lastly, you will help contribute to Bids/Products and Projects peer reviews to reduce engineering risks and increase confidence to deliver.
About You
You will be able to evolve in a technical environment and understand what is at stake in order to make the most appropriate decisions for your scope. You will also be able to collaborate and interface with the various stakeholders in order to ensure the cohesion of your organization, which you support with a global and strategic vision.
Additionally, you will know how to simplify and break down complex problems: you prioritize and coordinate resources accordingly, demonstrating your ability to allocate tasks efficiently. As well as this, you will know how to use your organizational skills in order to guarantee the follow-up of engineering projects, respecting deadlines, costs and quality with a clear vision of risks and opportunities (people management & development, appropriate staffing and recruitment).
Lastly, you can master several co-engineering techniques and are able to apply Lean Management or Agile principles to team management.
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 organization.
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 an 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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