Job Title: Engineering Lead – Special Projects

Site Location: Templecombe

Role Reporting Into: Programme Manager

Travel Percentage: 25%

Thales has an exciing opportunity for a creative and forward thinking individual to join its expanding Engineering team; the role will allow you the flexibility and autonomy to implement your own design ideas and cultivate new ideas.

Primary Purpose of the Role:
Lead a team of Engineering specialists
Provide innovative Technical solutions to enhance CSS support
Promote CSS and Thales products to Customers within the CSS portfolio
Manage key product developments for both Export and Domestic programmes

Key Accountabilities:
Lead a team of Engineering specialists
Ensure workload management is successfully achieved across the team
Ensure development of individuals in line with Thales Performance Development guidelines
Personnel management
Assist in the preparation of quotations for your product area
Provide innovative Technical solutions to enhance CSS support
Develop business cases for SF R&D product development opportunities
Develop extended functionality of current product range into new areas
Through life cost saving development of current product range
By working with Business Development understand Customer operating doctrine to promote product development opportunities
Develop product enhancements
Through life cost saving
Promote CSS and Thales products to Customers within the CSS portfolio
Establish common themes for product sales into current Customer bases
Identify product from across the Thales range that would fit into current CSS Customer base to offer enhanced Customer performance
Manage key product developments for both Export and Domestic programmes
Where applicable work with Programme Management to deliver Customer requirements
Promote cost saving initiatives where possible to maximise CSS profits

Key performance Indicators:
I 2 VCS

Ensure I 2 VCS is adopted by the new surface fleet management contract holder as a major cost saving initiative
Develop the I 2 VCS product to satisfy further platforms. I.E. Submarines, Fleet Auxiliary
DVL

Develop a business case for the adoption of the DVL into export Customers fleets
Promote the DVL into other non sonar platforms through the fleet management provider

Principal Relationships:
CSS engineering and technical manager
System Design Authorities
Design Authorities
Programme Management
Business Development
Thales UK touches all of our lives, every day. Our expertise in secure network communications safeguards as many as 3.7 billion BACS transactions, worth around £1 trillion, every year. We are a leader in onboard equipment for civil and military aircraft. And every time you take a train journey you’re relying on Thales to help you arrive safely

What we do

Thales UK: Defence

Thales UK provides armed forces with crucial military technology, including sophisticated Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting Acquisition and Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR) systems. The aim: to provide a cohesive, rapid response capability to protect our service personnel and defend national interests.

What we offer you

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs.

We value talent and provide growth paths to all depending on the individual skills and abilities to move up the ladder.

With Thales employing 68,000 employees in 50 countries and 43% of all Thales UK roles being filled via internal movements 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.

Thales UK Key Facts

Each year, Thales registers more than 300 patents
Thales UK has earned 79 Queen's Awards for Technology and Export
90% of our sales are sourced from the UK
7% of our revenue is reinvested in R & D
Thales has invested more than £2bn in the UK within the last 10 years
Thales is the second largest defence systems supplier
Thales embodies many famous companies, including Racal, Shorts Missiles, Pilkington Optronics, Redifon MEL, Thomson Marconi Sonar, Thorn Missile Electronics, Avimo, Helio and others
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