Hardware Project Engineer- Defence

Location: Templecombe, 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 Project Engineer- Defence

Location: Templecombe

Our Opportunity

We have a great opportunity for a Hardware Project Engineer to join Thales Under Water Systems (UWS) who provide underwater systems across a wide range of products and systems for submarines, surface vessels, mine-countermeasures vessels, unmanned vehicles and aircraft.

As a Hardware Project Engineer you will:

• Define the Hardware development cycle in consistency with that of upper/same level elements (dependencies, co-engineering activities).
• Tailor the Hardware engineering environment (process, practices and tools) according to Company and Project requirements.
• Allocates responsibilities to individual contributors.
• Participate in the specification of the functions and interfaces of products to be developed.
• Participate in the definition of the architecture, and the allocation of functions, to the components for which they have primary responsibility.
• The Hardware Project Engineer proactively contributes to all elements of the Project/Product/SFR&D activity so that hardware engineering expertise and effort is applied as necessary to secure successful business outcomes. This will typically be in a lead engineering management role for hardware design and development activity and in a support role for all other activity.
• You will be responsible for agreeing with the Project / Product / SFR&D teams that he/she is allocated to support.
• Responsible for enabling the development teams to define: How this is to be achieved including the responsible management of the technical risk. This detailed plan is to be captured in the sprint backlog register.
• You will motivate the team to own the successful delivery of the engineering artefacts ensuring that all activities are logged and tracked in JIRA as part of the eTUP mandated toolset(s).
• You will ensure that the development team track and manage progress against the identified activities, reporting progress, taking remedial action and escalating issues as appropriate, including Design to Cost etc with clear targets and tracking of achievement against these.
• You will maximise the use of Agile and Lean Development techniques to ensure timely delivery of the engineering tasks in accordance with company procedures and practices.
• You will be responsible for defining and collating the required metrics and reports required by both the Project/Product /SFR&D and Engineering Management team in a timely and accurate way.
  
  
  

About You

• BEng(Hons) Electronic or Mechanical Engineering.
• Evidence of the ability to lead and motivate a team of people to achieve a goal is important.
• The ability to develop, manage and promote Product engineering solutions.
• Ability to engage and influence key stakeholders.
• Knowledge of engineering development “v” cycles.
• Key influencer and user of Product Life cycle management tools and JIRA.
• Experience within manufacturing and of manufacturing processes.
  
  
  

Desirable

• Knowledge of the quality management systems, Design, Develop and Qualify the Solution (Hardware) Process Lifecycle, or equivalent ISO9001 compliant engineering management system.
• Knowledge of Lean & Agile Development techniques.
• Level 6 Qualification in Leadership & Management.
• Level 6 Qualification in Coaching & Mentoring.
• IPMA Level D Qualification or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Project management in defence or similar industries.
  
  
  

Security Clearance statement

This role requires SC level security clearance at UK eyes only (Either current or ability to gain full clearance is essential). For more information and guidance, please visit the UKSV website.

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.

Benefits At Thales

Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus and benefits package, which includes;

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover and private health cover
• Progression and Development Opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.
  
  
  

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.

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