Hardware Engineering Manager

Company: Thales Group
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Location: Crawley
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you guide the hardware development effort for mission-critical systems, balancing cost, schedule, performance and quality. You work within a cross‑functional team under Solution Engineering leadership to shape hardware architectures and life-cycle activities. You tailor engineering processes to project needs and allocate responsibilities to contributors. You engage in defining functions and interfaces, contributing to architecture decisions. This is a chance to lead regulated hardware programs and contribute to secure, high‑reliability maritime systems.

Pay / Benefits

  • private healthcare
  • pension
  • relocation support
  • annual bonus
  • cycle to work scheme
  • employee discounts

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage the hardware development cycle consistent with other system elements
  • Tailor hardware engineering processes, practices and tools per project needs
  • Allocate responsibilities to individual contributors
  • Participate in specification of functions/interfaces of products
  • Contribute to architecture definition and function allocation to components
  • Lead a multi‑discipline hardware team within a regulated environment

Key requirements

  • Experience in Systems/Hardware/Electronics engineering within a highly regulated environment
  • Technical leadership of small teams or programs
  • Project or program delivery experience is desirable
  • Engineering lifecycle experience
  • Desirable: experience with project tracking and agile tools (e.g., Jira)
  • Ability to lead cross‑functional teams
  • Strong collaboration and communication
  • Delivery focus under regulatory constraints
  • Hardware engineering (mechanical/electrical/system) experience
  • Systems engineering and design, development, integration and verification
  • Knowledge of engineering lifecycle and tooling; Jira/ags tools desirable

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Posted: October 17th, 2026