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Manufacturing Engineering Team Lead
(internally known as Industrial Process Engineering Team Lead)
Location: Templecombe, full-time (4 days/ week) onsite
Step into a leadership role where innovation meets impact - apply now to lead Industrial Process Engineering at Thales!
What The Role Has To Offer
Our Opportunity
Reporting to the Head of Industrial Process Engineering, you’ll lead a high‑performing team within our Autonomous Production & Repair Unit (APRU). Balancing leadership with hands‑on delivery, you’ll drive industrialisation and sustainment across new and legacy products, embedding Design for Manufacturing principles and smarter ways of working. Your role is pivotal - guiding engineers, eliminating waste, and ensuring processes and products perform to the highest standards.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high‑performing team within a specialist manufacturing environment focused on sonar, sensors, and advanced electrical systems. The role sits in a low‑volume, high‑value production space, offering the chance to work on technically complex, highly utilised products that make a real impact.
We’re open to candidates from a range of industries who bring strong people skills, a passion for driving improvements, and the ability to influence positive change. You’ll play a key role in delivering cost savings, streamlining processes, reducing product repair times, and shaping a culture of continuous improvement.
Building a Future, we can all trust.
Industrial Process Engineering (IPE) is all about shaping how products come to life - from the design of tooling and processes to the skills and technology that keep them running smoothly throughout their lifecycle. It’s where efficiency meets innovation, ensuring every product, component, and repair is delivered to the highest standards.
What We Offer You
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package designed to support our employees’ wellbeing and professional growth, which includes:
Key Responsibilities And Tasks
About You
At Thales, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Essential
Desirable
Join Thales in Templecombe as a Team Lead - apply today and help build a future we can all trust!
Security Clearance Statement UKEO (UK Eyes Only)
Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a non-ITAR country may be considered.
Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels
To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.
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