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.
IVVQ Manager – Electronic Warfare
Crawley – Hybrid
Relocation support can be provided
Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.
We are looking for senior engineers with the skills and experience to enhance our Electronic Warfare portfolio, delivering cutting edge products including:
Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy Electronic Transmission Environments Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.
We are seeking an EW IVVQ or ITEA Manager with experience of working within the field of Naval Systems Integration, Electronic Warfare, or related fields. You will have prior knowledge of the key principles of the domain and can quickly grasp the lifecycles and approaches to delivering complex systems into Naval service. You will have worked with or for the Royal Navy (or similar tier 1 navies) in the delivery of complex tactical equipment such as combat systems, sonar systems, radar systems or similar.
The Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification Manager (IVVQM) is in charge to define the IVVQ strategy (which has direct impact on the development strategy) and associated test means in order to integrate solution elements, verify compliance with the requirements, validate the coverage of the defined operational scenarios and qualify the solution in it's operational environment.
Role Description
As an IVVQ Management Role within Thales, you will manage all the tests activities and:
- Ensure that the overall IVVQ strategy is defined and maintained
- Tailor the IVVQ environment (process, practices and tools, HSE)
- Coordinate IVVQ activities, establishing priorities and integration logical diagrams, conducting tests, analysing results and transmitting them to development teams
- Coordinate technical facts commission (i.e. JIRA)
- Manage teams’ workload to ensure schedules are being adhered to; monitor the group performance KPIs and perform corrective actions when required
- Ensure that the IVVQ team performs Integration to the satisfaction of all external and internal customers
- Define test benches
- Monitor the Test Progress
- Consolidate and Report the Test Results
- Contribute to qualification/ acceptance/ certification
- Support capitalisation activities for the department as well as lessons learned
- Be involved in budgeting and scheduling for offers
- Ensure unambiguous test ability of requirement
Profile of the successful candidate:
- You graduated with an Engineering or Scientific degree, and you have significant experience in architecture and engineering systems
- You are in a position of IVVQ Manager: you manage IVVQ teams and know how to create and execute IVVQ complex test plans and procedures
- You want to oversee the management of all IVVQ activities—meaning choosing and managing appropriate methods, resources, and means to execute IVVQ complex test plans and procedures
- You enjoy leading teams and want to motivate, train and appraise employees’ performance and act as a mentor to assigned staff
- You want to deliver robust solutions to satisfy customers and build strong relationship with them
- You are a self-motivated leader, willing to engage and develop your team using collaborative work and challenging approaches
- You are customer focused: you want to deliver value or solutions to the customer and are committed to delivery
Competencies
- You know how to lead and manage projects from start to end and you are able to:
- Define test strategy with a scheduling approach and a clear view of the risks and opportunities
- Manage planning and performance tracking
- Be the quality assurance of your solutions
- Your technical background makes you rigorous, pragmatic and a critical thinker
- You know how to manage complexity and conflicts—resourceful and creative, you are capable of dealing with unplanned events with reactivity
- You have an excellent verbal and written communication skills, good negotiation skills and a recognised capacity to convince all types of stakeholders
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 you to be a sole British National from birth and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats . 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. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.
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 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.
What We Can Offer
We are 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.
Our packages will include significant bonus, a strong pension contribute, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.
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.
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