Engineering Management Group Leader

Job Description

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 Air Traffic Management, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Gorgonzola hosts Navigations Air Systems (NAS) domain. The activity of NAS domain: avionics, navigation and radar systems for civil air traffic and technologies supporting the activities of civilian and military pilots, ATC controllers and technicians of several airlines, air traffic control agencies and Air Force around the world. Italy is the Group’s Competence center for the design, production and delivery of Navigation Aids products and Competence Centre for the delivery of non-Radar Surveillance Products.

Thales people architect solutions that enable two-thirds of planes to take off and land safely. Our Ground Navigation portfolio offers a complete range of products which includes the latest generation of ILS, DME, VOR and TACAN systems.

With more than 7,000 Navigation aids and landing systems installed worldwide in 172 countries, we are leading the Navaids market.

The second product line of NAS is Non Radar Surveillance (NRS) with an installed base of more than 2.200 ADS-B and MLAT Groundstations.

Engineering Management Group Leader (m/f/d) (Ref.Nr. R0060287)

at our site in Gorgonzola (near Milan)

The Engineering Management Group Leader plays a key role in the engineering policy by defining & updating the standard Process, Practices and Tools to be deployed across NAS Engineering department on all bids, products and projects with the following key objectives:

• To master Engineering developments,
• To improve Engineering competitiveness

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and update the standard Process, Practices and Tools to be deployed across NAS Engineering department on all bids, products and projects, monitoring the deployment of practices and tools across NAS Engineering department
• Plan and monitor the tailoring of PP&T and its deployment on Work Package in relation with the SEM
• Capture the needs (evolution or addition) on practices & tools (Training, coaching and license), update the plan and monitor their deployment
• Identify the Engineering Environment (E2) Budget and make sure that it is taken into account in the MYB exercise
• Report the progress on its E2 deployment plan to either BL E2M and Country E2M, according to the Engineering Governance Deployment
• Contribute to the E2 community by sharing experience or support, connecting each other’s, exchanging ideas and debating on issues,,,
• Request adequate support, training and coaching to GroupE2 support team (support to support)
• The Engineering Management Group leader acts as BL Process Owner for NAS and as Engineering Environment Manager for NAS activities.
• Concerning the IT infrastructure and tools:
  • Ensure the Project Management and the Design Authority of the deployment of the Engineering Environment,
  • Ensure the IS/IT organization delivers the appropriate infrastructure and services in line with the engineering need
• Concerning processes & practices:
  • Providing support for the deployment of engineering processes and practices, assisting OPs in the adjustment of the engineering tooled-up practices (eTUP), and organizing the sharing of 'best practices',
  • Support the heads of discipline to assure, that processes and practices are implemented in a standardized way, that support means and tools are reliable, and that people are trained at the expected level of skill
• Concerning TIMS: conducting and / or checking the regular maturity assessments of the Engineering organization in relation with the Quality Department in accordance with the TIMS governance of the Group,
• Concerning Lean & Agile: accelerate and support the deployment of 'Lean Engineering' and 'Agile' practices

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years’ experience or Master’s degree in field with 5+ years’ experience a technical domain, or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of and experience in assessment, performance monitoring and measurement and analysis.
• General knowledge of system and hardware/software design, development, installation and testing-Understanding of solutions and software development principles ‘and lifecycles
• Proven track record engaging and influencing strong stakeholders
• Interpersonal skills – the ability to communicate effectively with peers and act proactively within a team environment
• Experience of working within a safety environment in a aeronautic/transportation or similar industry
• Excellent decision and problem solving skills
• English fluent is a must
• Ability to speak additional languages as Italian, German or French is a benefit
• The role will require travel for approximately 30% of the time

As a global player with projects all over the world, Thales is looking for candidates from different backgrounds and with different careers, because it’s the sheer diversity of our innovative and creative teams that drives our success – and that’s why this is also a key aspect of our personnel selection process.

Do you want to know more? I look forward to hearing from you:

Holger Proko
Tel.: +49 (0)7156 353 32780

You can find more information about Thales as an employer at https://www.thalesgroup.com/de/career/thales-erleben

What we offer you:

At Thales, we take very good care of our people. We invest a lot in our employees’ personal and professional development and in the promotion of teams, because these are very important issues for us. This is why we founded our internal Thales University, to offer you a broad portfolio of training and further education programs. We commend performance and our attractive salary policy will impress you.

Thales Germany actively promotes and practices a policy of open dialogue and transparency. Professional equality between women and men of all nationalities, and a good work-life balance are a matter of course for us. We have created special programs to encourage diversity and reconcile work and family, helping our employees to enjoy both their family lives and their exciting challenges with Thales.

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. Great journeys start here, apply now!