Portfolio Quality Assurance Manager

Location:

Crawley, United Kingdom 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.

Portfolio Quality Assurance Manager Crawley Are  you an impactful Quality professional ready to take your next step in leading and managing a portfolio of projects within an engineering or defence environment?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Portfolio Quality Assurance Manager to join our A2IS domain in Crawley. As the PQAM, you will lead the activities within your domain, delivering cost effective, efficient Quality Assurance to meet Customer / partner requirements and Thales business objectives. You will work to ensure that the senior stakeholder assigned is provided with independent support/advice and challenge, highlighting risks and areas of concern within your portfolio.

Thales UK is a Chartered Quality Institute Recognised Employer.

What the role has to offer:

Opportunity to lead Quality Assurance across one of the portfolios with the A2IS business

Member of the A2IS leadership team, helping achieve customer excellence and driving continuous improvement, governance & assurance across our complex engineering programmes

Hybrid role based out of the Crawley site (min 3 days per week)
We’ll also pay for your CQI membership and support formal certified training where appropriate e.g. lead auditor training

Main responsibilities:

Managing and leading the programmes in your portfolio to deliver all aspects of quality assurance within bids, projects, design and development life cycles, system validation, supply chain, manufacturing & customer acceptance across all programmes

Ensuring we drive consistent application of governance to assure quality within gates, milestones and lifecycle events including those attended by the customer (both on and off site)
Ensuring attendance at formal project reviews and the infeed of independent quality reporting to the senior programme stakeholders within the portfolio

Ensuring customer requirements are embedded and delivered and that the customer is represented at all times

About you:

Ideally, you will have:

Experience operating in a Quality Management role in a complex project/engineering environment

Demonstrable ability in influencing key stakeholders and getting buy-in to the quality vision

Experience of working in a fast paced design and development/engineering environment

Proven ability to instigate and drive effective change

Related Professional Qualification and Membership of Associations (CQI preferred)
A recognised auditor qualification

Detailed working knowledge of RCA tools and techniques

Knowledge of Quality Management System and Standards (eg. AS9100, ISO
9001)
Pragmatic Risk Based decision making

Ability to converse and influence Senior Stakeholders from a variety of functions

Benefits:
Performance-related bonus (grade dependent)
Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00 – delete if not applicable to the BL28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)24 hours volunteering, per year, paid forOne professional membership, per year, paid for Private healthcare (grade dependent)
Pension scheme

Life cover
24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

Gym membership discounts

Security Clearance Requirement:

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions.  This role requires Security Clearance (SC). 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. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  

In some circumstances, a minimum of…