Test Design Manager

Overview

Location:

Glasgow, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible. 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.

• We are looking for a Test Engineering Discipline Manager to join the Engineering Competence Centre (ECC-UK) in the Central Engineering team that is challenged with supporting complex Test and verifications systems across multiple Thales domains.

• The successful candidate must have experience managing the complete system development lifecycle within the ICOSE systems frame work and additionally, PXI architecture solutions and system IVVQ. They will report directly to the Head of the ECC-UK and will define, support and/or commence execution of Test Engineering Management activities on a range of Domains within the Thales UK perimeter.

• The role encompasses people, technical, tactical and delivery management for the modular PXI based and traditional bespoke verification projects. The role operates within a complex wider engineering environment and requires management of multiple stakeholders across many levels within the organisation

• Accountable for all aspects of Delivery Performance of the respective Specialities Discipline: including the delivery of tasks, activities, work packages and the provision of resources; as well as ensuring, competence, Hardware Quality Assurance, utilising control data analytics to monitor delivery performance and project alignment with adjacent stakeholders and customers. Ensuring adherence to processes, methods and practices. Additionally optimally mitigating stakeholder and customer escalations and exceptions and leading a culture of continuous improvement.

Location(s): Crawley or Reading or Cheadle or Bristol or Templecombe or Belfast or Glasgow or any other Thales site in the UK

Relationships will be required to be built and maintained with the following principals:

• Engineering Director

• Engineering Operations Director

• Head of ECC-UK

• MoB&F Director

• CBU Heads of Hardware

• Head of HR, Engineering

• CBU Heads of Engineering

• Project Directors and Leads

• Heads of Industry

• Support the optimisation of Thales UK performance: costs and schedule adherence of any activity by delivering Test Solution development related elements of an engineering competitiveness action plan by simplifying / adapting the processes, practices tools and interfaces and changing the working methods in appropriate engineering domains.

• Manage and optimise the design, development and verification capability within the emerging Test product line. Quantify skills, competences, processes, tools and facilities in line with business needs (including improvement of accurate or estimated resource demand within IBP)

• The role holder will also work closely with the MoB&F Director to enable the exploitation of the Engineering supply chain and capabilities across the Thales Group including the ECC’s in France, Romania and India.

• Support the development and integration of the UK Hardware engineering environments aligned with UK Engineering Environments and the Thales Group strategy.

• Working with the Head of ECC-UK and HR, support the Engineering Talent Review Process, developing pipelines of talent for Thales UK

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