Sonar Maintenance Training Instructor

Location: Cheadle

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Cheadle, 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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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.
** Sonar Maintenance Training Instructor
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* Location:

Cheadle (Hybrid Working)
**** Our Opportunity:
** As the European number one in defence electronics and the world number two in defence radio communications, Thales is a leading name in the global defence and security markets. In addition to equipping over 40 naval forces across the globe, we have a proud 125-year heritage here in the UK. Today that is represented in our key role delivering the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier and our provision of advanced radio equipment to all of the Royal Navy’s surface combatants.

Join us as a leading member of the Systems Engineering Team based at the Thales site in the Cheadle Heath office near Manchester. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with Thales sites in the UK and overseas.
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* About the role:

** The Operability Expertise cell, a job family within the Systems Engineering team at Cheadle Heath, are responsible for all Operator, Maintainer and Human Factors related activities for Submarine, Surface Ships and Airborne Sonar and Command and Control systems including UI design and evaluation, training design and delivery, end-user engagement including operability workshops and human-in-the-loop experimentation. In addition, the cell is responsible for seeking new and innovative methods of working across the Combat System designed to improve operability, maintainability, enhance situational awareness, enhance user experience, and reduce workload and ultimately crewing requirements.

A vacancy has arisen for an experienced 2076 Subject Matter Expert Sonar Maintainer, to work across domestic and export products and programmes including self-funded initiatives.
** The role and overview of key responsibilities
*** Produce and maintain full DSAT Training material for Maintainer training
* Deliver DSAT training to the RN
* Review system designs from an RN maintainer perspective and recognise potential shortfalls that will hinder or prevent preventative or corrective maintenance
* Seek innovative solutions to improve the maintainability and fault logging of Thales products
* Liaise with the research community to recommend new algorithm development to improve the ‘Brief Command’ aspect of maintenance
* Conduct system related trials in harbour and at sea
* Provide Systems Engineering HCI modelling and design capability in support of Thales Sonar projects
* Support business development initiatives
* Produce maintainer training documentation for new / spiral developments
* Support sea trials
* Liaise with key customer stakeholders as appropriate.
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* About You:

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* You will have:

* Demonstrable relevant Sonar maintenance experience
* Demonstrable experience of Sonar Signal and Data processing
* Strong analytical abilities with a methodical approach
* Demonstrable relevant experience in the maintenance of Sonar Systems on UK…