Engineering Delivery Manager – IAS

Overview

In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver complex defence and airspace protection solutions across the full system lifecycle. You’ll shape technical strategy, manage end-to-end delivery, and ensure alignment with cost, schedule and quality targets. You’ll collaborate with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to translate requirements into robust, cost-efficient architectures. This position sits at the heart of Thales’ Integrated Airspace Protection Systems, offering impact on global security and technological innovation. You will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and help build a future we can all trust.

Pay / Benefits

• Performance-related bonus
• Half day every Friday
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Life cover

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and engineering leadership to multidisciplinary teams within cost, schedule, and quality targets
• Plan, coordinate and execute engineering activities across the full development lifecycle from requirements to acceptance
• Oversee development, management and verification of system and subsystem requirements with a low-risk IVVQ approach
• Ensure design assurance, certification and governance activities meet standards
• Define and maintain WBS/OBS and related engineering plans to meet baselines and milestones
• Optimize processes, tools and environments balancing performance, cost, schedule and risk
• Collaborate with Programme Manager, customers, suppliers and partners to manage risks and deliver commitments

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or Numerate discipline (BEng, BSc); Masters advantageous
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on complex projects
• Expertise in systems engineering: requirements capture, analysis, decomposition, management, and translating needs into solutions
• Experience managing full engineering lifecycle from requirements to IVVQ
• Ability to plan, monitor and control engineering activities against objectives
• Strong stakeholder management and organisational skills under pressure

• collaborative
• resilient
• strong stakeholder relationships
• systems engineering
• requirements management
• IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification)

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