Hardware Engineering Manager

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.
** Hardware Engineering Manager
**** Templecombe, Crawley or Cheadle - Hybrid
** Thales Underwater Systems is a global leader in complex maritime engineering, delivering the ship‐wide systems that power world‐class platforms including the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. Our portfolio spans Communications, Command Information Systems, Systems Integration, Autonomous Systems, Sonar, and Advanced Data Connectivity.
We're recruiting for a Hardware Engineering Manager to provide functional leadership to a small multi-disciplinary engineering team. The role will also provide support for work package management. This would be well suited to someone who has held prior leadership experience and is looking to diverse their experience or work on high complex technical programmes. The team size would be roughly 6-8 technical personnel and its important that the successful candidate has familiarity with tasking and resource allocation.  

There will be some travel provided in the role as the overall business line operates across Cheadle, Crawley and Templecombe.  
** Role overview
** The Hardware Engineering Manager (HwEM) is responsible for the completion of a set of engineering tasks within the committed cost, schedule, performance and quality. The related tasks may cover part or all the range of activities regarding customer needs, mission, function, architectural design, and life cycle of the hardware solution (requirements and speciality engineering, design, development, integration and verification)  You will ensure Hardware Engineering activity management within constraints provided by the Solution Engineering Manager, the Solution and Hardware Architects.  

In this capacity the Hardware Engineering Manager:
* Defines the Hardware development cycle in consistency with that of upper/same level elements (dependencies, co-engineering activities).
* Tailors the Hardware engineering environment (process, practices and tools) according to Company and Project requirements.
* Allocates responsibilities to individual contributors
* Participates in the specification of the functions and interfaces of products to be developed.
* Participates in the definition of the architecture, and the allocation of functions, to the components for which they have primary responsibility.  
** Experienced required
*** Experience with in Systems, Hardware or Electronics Engineering within a highly regulated environment, working with multi-discipline teams of engineers
* Experience of technical leadership of either small teams or programmes of work
* Project or Programme delivery experience/knowledge would be desirable
* Engineering Lifecycle experience,
* Desirable experience with Project tracking, ideally Jira but other agile management tools would be desirable although not essential  
** Security Clearance statement
** Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions.
** This role requires you to be a sole British National from birth and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats.
** It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance
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