Reporting into Engineering Services (UK) TSE is based primarily at Crawley and is a dedicated team of professional Engineers with many years of accumulated knowledge and experience. The various departments are responsible for designing, building, integrating, maintaining, repairing and spare provisioning for all BUs within Thales UK using a wide range of skills, approaches, techniques and technologies.

The different departments in Through-Life Support Engineering:

Supportability (ILS) and Modeling

Product Support Engineering

Obsolescence and Component Engineering

Technical Publications & Training

Head of Product Support Engineering

Heads of included departments (as above)

Building an effective relationship with your selected Deputy

Team Members

Project Managers

Engineering Managers (as appropriate)

Aligned Heads of Engineering in CBU Businesses

Head of Site Safety

Head of Quality, Resource Management:

To ensure the timely provision of expert resource to the businesses.

To identify and develop the skills needed for future work highlighted through training needs analysis and resource planning to ensure on-the-job training.

To pursue and secure additional sources of work (demand) when forward load indicates a future potential under-load.

To establish and implement cross-Business (RCP, ISR, FLX and any UK) synergies resulting in demonstrable associated savings.

To support other Heads of Function and the Head of Through-Life Support Engineering to ensure that demand is serviced and that all Thales Businesses with projects (our "customers") are fully satisfied with the service they receive.

To act as the Line Manager for the employees within your direct reporting line.

To manage and undertake in a timely manner, high quality appraisal sessions (Check-ins) for the Team and Leads who report to you.

To manage development of skills, competencies and career aspirations in line with business and team needs for yourself and your team-members.

To support maintenance/update of skills/training matrix reflecting current and future needs.

Continuously reinforcing and enhancing all team-member's behaviours in line with Thales' Company values.

To be an exemplar of Thales Behaviours for your team and the Engineering Services (UK) as a whole. Behaviours are detailed in the Leadership Model available in Workday- you are expected to demonstrate the behaviours required by the Leadership Model for Thales.

To build effective working relationships with a clear ability to address issues openly and constructively, having productive discussions with your team-members.

To actively participate in Team Briefings and all Team Meetings as an important member of the TSE Team.

To manage performance issues directly, with clarity, in line with policy and fairly.

To up-skill your team and help them to deliver to their full potential - identifying and supporting those who are high potential and helping them to grow and deliver for Thales is a key element of the role.

To select suitable technologies that support the overall aims of the Through-Life Support Engineering to create modular, scalable and flexible solutions for your customers, building upon good practice allowing us to respond more effectively to emerging requirements.

To manage carefully and closely, with defined plans and milestones, the replacement and maintenance of any existing equipment or contractual/customer agreements.

To ensure effective technical development environments/tools for your Team(s).

To ensure that processes and tools are fit for purpose and to propose justified alternatives where pertinent.

To ensure adherence to relevant parts of Chorus 2.0 by all members of your team as detailed in any working plans. You may be audited on this and therefore you must adhere to plans and keep records where pertinent.

To pro-actively support processes developed to support Safety- in-Design; Airworthiness; Environmental and all statutory, regulatory or Thales mandated compliance obligations.

To always support the maintenance of a safe environment for all Team members, noting your Safety Leadership responsibilities as assigned by the Head of Through-Life Support Engineering.

To put your great performers forward for reward and recognition.

To estimate carefully and to review estimates produced by your team before submission to Head of Product Support Engineering for review, ensuring that the outputs of your Team are credible when they estimate activities.

To support the Head of Product Support Engineering and fellow team leaders to ensure the completion of the Cost Centre budget within the MYB timeframes and to ensure all budgetary goals are achieved.

To carefully manage the Direct Labour Utilisation of your team to ensure that budgets are met, expressing clearly to the team that meeting our budgets ensures our competitiveness and that exceeding our budgets reduces our ability to compete.

Estimating

WP Management

Team Building and Managing

Leadership Expertise

Relevant Technical/Engineering Experience

PDM (e.g. Palma)

Adherence. to Process (DDQS/SER)

Support Solutions

Peer Review

Design Safety

HND or equivalent in an electronics engineering subject (or equivalent, including relevant working experience)

Membership and professional registration with IET (or equivalent)

Min of 10 years industry experience in a relevant business/engineering role

Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and an ability to work co-operatively with others, creating and harnessing a team spirit within and across other company sites.

Ability to work as a team player, able to listen and to discuss solutions with other members of the team

Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines with a high attention to detail

Develop others in the team through mentoring & sharing knowledge

Drives to achieve high standards, actively seeks improvement

Flexible and adaptable to fast paced changing environments

Attention to detail, a high level of accuracy, self-motivating and the ability to plan and organise own tasks

Promotes company interests at all times helping to create a positive working environment

Demonstrate behaviours appropriate to the LR grade and consistent with Thales Key values.

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