Job Description
Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
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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.
Our Opportunity:
This full-time permanent System Integration & Test Manager will be working on a solution/product delivering a next generation Electronic Warfare (EW) solution. This role performs a subset of all the engineering activities required to develop a solution/product whilst achieving customer satisfaction of the delivered solution/ product. This role requires a Systems Engineer experienced in leading an IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation, Qualification) team and requirements management.
Key responsibilities include:
- Undertake IVVQM activities in a lead capacity
- Development and implementation of IVVQ strategy across the business
- Ensuring that the IVVQ activities are aligned to the overall Project Plan and are delivered in line with the agreed Project cost, quality and schedule constraints.
- Introduction of new tools and working practices related to IVVQ
- Demonstration that the solution satisfies the overall approved operational needs set out by the customer.
- Support and undertake IVVQ activities.
- SE and IVVQ related documentation.
- Managing and reporting defects identified in a clear and efficient manner.
What are we looking for?
Skills:
- An understanding of System Engineering and System Engineering Processes and Practices, including knowledge of Systems Lifecycles.
- An ability to work with combinations of technologies, to integrate and verify them in a logical and structured way into a system in order to fully satisfy a Customer’s requirement.
- Able to develop and establish collaborative ways of working with multiple stakeholders and disciplines to establish a system-centric way of working.
- Excellent communications skills, both verbally and written, with the ability to present and explain technical and complex problems, tailored appropriately for the audience.
- A team player with a “can-do” attitude that performs effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
- Eligibility to be security cleared to SC.
Experience:
- Minimum of a Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering subject or Higher Education/equivalent training and experience.
- Proven testing experience in a lead role
- Proven working experience in requirements management using DOORS.
- Experience of full systems lifecycle from design through to validation and qualification.
- Familiarity with iterative development and agile processes
- Detailed working knowledge of the engineering lifecycle, from concept design, requirements capture and management, system and subsystem design, system integration, through to test strategies, acceptance and design update.
- Knowledge of Architecture Frameworks (MODAF, DODAF, TOGAF etc.)
- Experience in product line Engineering
- Preference for experience working in the Electronic Warfare, Radar or telecommunications domain.
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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