About the role

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This is a Discipline Manager (Functional Engineering Manager) role at Thales, a global technology leader in aerospace, defense, and cybersecurity. The manager is responsible for improving engineering discipline practices, people development, knowledge sharing, and balancing discipline with delivery. They oversee systems engineering governance, define processes and tools, manage hiring and workforce planning, and foster innovation and collaboration across disciplines.

Aerospace & DefenseFull-timeGeneral

Key Responsibilities

Contribute and support the Engineering Manager in building a clear vision and direction for Engineering initiatives and communicate to the team
Contribute to the Systems, Infrastructure and Speciality Engineering Discipline Governance
Define and tailor discipline practices (process and tools)
Ensure the capitalization and sharing of knowledge
Contribute to the discipline efficiency plan to increase business competitiveness
Promote adoption of new technologies
Be responsible for the engineering discipline cost model definition and updates
Assess skills required for current and future projects needs including future discipline trends
Development/upskilling of the team and career management
Conduct strategic workforce planning including the provision of resources to fulfil current and future bid and project needs
Roll-out Make Team Buy strategy for the forecasted workload (incoming activities)
Define and Manage Hiring strategy and recruitment, onboarding

Requirements

Degree in Engineering, IT or related discipline
Postgraduate studies in Systems Engineering (Desirable)
Proven experience in Systems Engineering lifecycle management (10+ years) including; Requirements, Design, Integration and Verification and Validation
Proven experience in the development of products and projects in a variety of methodologies, with a particular focus on iterative/agile development
Proven experience (5+ years) in managing and coaching staff
Demonstrated ability to achieve effective outcomes in a multidiscipline, multi-culture environment
Experience with Safety, Security and Human Factors standards and practices
Experience with Infrastructure design processes
Experience with Network design and deployment processes
Ability to develop and promote high performing teams
Develop and foster a culture of continuous improvement
Coaching and sharing of his/her know-how
Ability to engage senior stakeholders having different objectives
Accountability, transparency and curiosity
A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills
An ability to successfully manage change
Comfort in facing and managing complexity
Sound judgement and independent decision-making capability where necessary