Head of Discipline - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Thales

Thales

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Location:
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission.

Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air.

From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

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.

Head of Discipline - Software
(Real Time & Embedded - Discipline Management)

PROFILE:

You graduated with a Master of Engineering or Computer Science or in University, and you have significant experience in team management
You want to evolve in a "real time" environment with interactions between "low level" technical aspects, close to the hardware, and ensure that the "high level" functionality expected by the solution is maintained
You are willing to work on small or big devices such as Radar, embedded calculator equipment, Smartcards and Wearables, dedicated for the Telecommunications and IOT businesses, mobile...
You are a leader willing to engage and develop your team through the use of collaborative work and challenging approaches
You love to share knowledge and help people develop themselves, which enables you to be recognised as a great mentor and teamplayer
You are responsible and show a great sense of initiative

COMPETENCIES:

You are able to empower and unite employees around clear objectives by acting as a coach and servant leader, which mobilises influencing and "team first" skills
You foster competitiveness and performance improvement
You have substantial knowledge of RTE technologies, tools, methods, practices and processes
You have notions of IVVQ
You demonstrate a strong desire for continuous improvement and a capacity to develop a strategic vision: you are able to integrate and even anticipate the various elements of your environment in order to guide the team through the challenges prompted by competitiveness

KEY DUTIES

Take in charge the Discipline Practices and Tools tailoring and deployment (incl. digitisation, automation, data management) across Projects and Products
Be responsible for the adoption of new technologies
Ensure the capitalisation and sharing of knowledge and assets (building blocks, cost estimating models, best practices, etc.)
Foster continuous improvement based on root cause analysis, problem solving, new practice deployment,
Manage people within your discipline and ensure their development (skills management, coaching, career development, mindset), the adequacy with the expected needs (quality and quantity) at the right time and the allocation to the Bids and Projects
Perform technical reviews associated with their discipline on Bids/Products and Projects
Ensure Operational Subject Matter Experts allocate part of their time to coach and train engineering people about the Domain activities

YOUR CAREER AT THALES

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites.

You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:

Room and attention to personal development
Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

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.

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