Project Design Authority - Templecombe, United Kingdom - Thales

Thales

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Templecombe, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Location:
Templecombe, 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 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.

Project Design Authority

Location:

Templecombe / Cheadle

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply complex technologies and services that affect the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. Your health and wellbeing matters to us and that's why we, where possible, support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you achieve your ambitions._

What the role has to offer:

Working with new and innovative techniques and technologies
Ability to work on a variety of projects
Working in a fastpaced environment

About the Team

Our Opportunity
Project Design Authority within the Future Capability sector focusing on research and development.

The Project Design Authority will be responsible for Solution Compliance for a Bid or Project. The PDA acts as the primary technical leader of the bid or project team. They also act as lead technical interface with the Customer.

Where required, the PDA may also act as the Principle Systems Engineer and Solution Architect on the bid/project.

Some responsibilities include

Analyses Customer needs/requirements and assesses Solution architecture and technical choices.
Ensures Solution compliance with Customer needs, Product Policy, MTB Strategy & applicable legislation, rules & regulations.
Reviews the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project.
Ensures best tradeoff between Customer requirements & Product Policy consistent with schedule, costs, MTB strategy & risks/ opportunities.
Checks the production and the maintenance/service aspects of the Solution with the Production Process/Technology Manager (PPTM) and the Service Engineering Manager (where applicable)
Approves the Design & Justification File (D&JF) prepared by the Solution Architect (ARC).
Approves the completion of integration, verification, validation and qualification results.
Leads the main bid/project Engineering Reviews and approves the main Engineering deliverables at each project decision milestone.
Leads the systems engineering activities (as required)
Organises when appropriate technical meetings and peer reviews together with the Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM) and other technical stakeholders and experts, in order to perform the Solution technical assessment and validation.
Interfacing with the client (internal/external), to define the solution.

About You
You will have

Technical prowess in one or more of the technological disciplines relevant to the company, e.g. Sonar Systems, Processing, Outboard Hardware etc, and/or in one or more of understanding of business case generation, resource planning, and budgetary control.
Experience in the developmental lifecycle disciplines, e.g. Requirements Capture, Modelling & Analysis, System Design, Product Development, and IV&V, ideally in a research context
Experienced and knowledgeable of whole systems engineering lifecycles for complex systems.

What We Can Offer
We're 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.

Flexibility
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 time