Job Specifications
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 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.
The Systems Engineering team at Crawley carries out Systems Engineering activities covering the full lifecycle for complex defence programmes. A vacancy has arisen for an experienced Systems Engineer, primarily to help deliver a new arm of Thales's Underwater Systems business from the Crawley site. This is an exciting opportunity in an area of the business currently undergoing rapid and sustained growth, both in domestic and export areas.
The individual is expected to be capable to take on the role of Systems Engineer for parts, or the whole, of a Sonar Design from bid to contract acceptance and completion. This will entail being responsible for Solution Compliance for a Bid or Project, acting as a technical leader for the bid or project team reporting to the programme Solution Engineering Manager & Project Design Authority.
Key Responsibilities:
Analyses Customer needs/requirements and assesses Solution architecture and technical choices.
Ensures Solution compliance with Customer needs, Product Policy, Make-Team-Buy (MTB) Strategy & applicable legislation, rules & regulations.
Reviews the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project.
Ensures best trade-off between Customer requirements & Product Policy consistent with schedule, costs, MTB strategy & risks/ opportunities.
System definition activities - requirements definition, functional and physical definitions
Preparation and presentation of system level design reviews
Monitoring of emerging detailed design within various implementation teams - acoustic, hardware, mechanical, software etc.
Ensures, with the support of Specialty Engineering experts & Safety/HSE stakeholders that Solution design takes into account contract requirements and applicable legislation, rules & regulations, including product safety & security and Environmental/HSE requirements & standards, and that related certification activities are performed correctly.
IVVQ planning and execution, including platform trials from time-to-time
Requirements sell-off and contract acceptance with customer
Customer and end-user liaison
Analysis of system performance
Alignment of Product vs Project - Contribute to business strategy and product development as required.
Sound understanding of the development lifecycle and lifecycle products.
Essential
Skills, Competence and associated Behaviours
Evidence of capability against the following competences (INCOSE based):-
Systems Thinking: System Concepts (context, complexity); Super-System Capabilities
Systems Design - Concept Generation; Architectural Design; Maintain Design Integrity; System Robustness;
Safety - Identifying Hazards
Strong analytical abilities with a methodical approach
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to team members, Design Authorities and varying levels of senior management.
Is a self-starter, capable of working on own initiative with a high level of integrity.
Well organized individual; ability to plan & schedule activities (and produce associated plans)
Team player who can interface at all levels within engineering and manufacturing company, represent the company to outside government and customer organisations, and who can operate successfully in a multi-cultural environment.
Ability to work professionally and constructively within a team environment providing advice and consultancy.
Good people management skills and the ability to influence and challenge others
Desirable
DOORS practitioner
System modelling skills (with either Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect or similar tool)
Familiarity with Agile / Lean engineering techniques, e.g. SCRUM methodology (in support of software development)
An ability to quickly assimilate and utilise a knowledge of the technical and market environment and apply this to the c
About the Company
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies specialized in three business domains: Defence & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cybersecurity & Digital identity. It develops products and solutions that help make the world safer, greener and more inclusive.
The Group invests close to EUR4 billion a year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, cloud technologies and 6G.
Thales has close to 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In...
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