Hardware Configuration Item Owner - Electronic Warfare Solutions

Job description

Location: Crawley, 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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

Hardware Configuration Item Owner - Mast Electronics Assembly

Based in Crawley- Hybrid Working (Minimum 3 days onsite)

Are you looking for your next challenge with the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team that will support with your learning and development? Then look no further...

About the role:

Thales Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) design and deliver hardware into Electronic Warfare Solutions for the UK MoD and have an exciting opportunity for a Hardware Configuration Item Owner to join the team in Crawley. You will take both Technical Ownership of your allocated Sub System and Control Account Management for the delivery of the associated configuration item.

Your focus will be on ensuring that all the team understand their part and that they work together to achieve timely delivery of development milestones. You will oversee a range of activities regarding customer requirements, architectural design, and development and production life cycle of the hardware solution, whilst monitoring & driving delivery to agreed cost, schedule, performance & quality.

You will work in a highly technical, high performing, world class team who are leaders in this their business area. You will play a key part in new state of the art products and developments in the field of fully digital Electronic Warfare solutions. The role will provide you with opportunities to gain exposure and develop your skills across Thales.

This role is based in Crawley with some occasion UK wide travel to other Thales and customer sites.

Day to day, jointly with other key team members, you will

• Ensure the feasibility of the Electronic Warfare Sub System Solution
• Assure sub system solution compliance with customer needs, product policy, Make Team Buy strategy and applicable legislation etc.
• Identify & review the technical risks and opportunities
• Manage sub system design & changes
• Plan and execute the defined scope of work for the Control Account, within the defined budget and schedule
• Understand the Critical Path to deliveries
• Monitor, verify and control of costs charged to the Control Account, conducting and completing formal cost and schedule variance analysis

About You:

• You will have a background in Hardware engineering & a solid understanding of Engineering Development Lifecycles and Cost Account Control.
• The successful applicant will have proven experience leading engineering activity through design & development lifecycles in the defence industry domain.
• Experience in system integration, platform installation and acceptance in a military environment would also be beneficial.
• You will have demonstrable experience of collaborating, leading and pulling together teams, excellent listening skills, logical thinker, driven with a proactive, can do, mentality.

Skills:

• Knowledge of Electronic Warfare Systems
• An excellent understanding of how to develop a Product to cost but with the ability to include hooks for future features
• Estimating, scheduling, cost management and risk management

A good understanding of:

• Key issues related to SNR(Signal to noise ratio), up/down-conversion, tuned receivers, LO/clock generation in microwave bands
• DACs, Optical transceivers, high speed data transmission
• Voltage supply and regulation, serial interfaces

Experience:

Demonstrable experience in:

• Development of ESM systems, e.g. Comms or Radar
• Hardware technical leadership roles
• Hardware design activities with relevance to the role.

Qualifications:

• A relevant degree or equivalent in relevant engineering discipline (Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronic, or Communications, etc.), supported by 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Evidence of the ability to lead and motivate a group of people to achieve a goal is important.
• Knowledge of the Hardware Engineering Design, Develop and Qualify the Solution Process Lifecycle, or equivalent.

Security Clearance statement

This role requires SC level security clearance without caveats/restrictions (Either current or ability to gain full clearance is essential). For more information and guidance, please visit the UKSV website.

What We Can Offer

We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility:

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, hybrid 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.

Benefits at Thales

Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus and benefits package, which includes;

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Hybrid working
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• Progression and Development Opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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