Naval Engineering Delivery Manager

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

6/25/2025

Location: Crawley, 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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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.

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.

We are seeking an EW Engineering Manager with experience of working within the field of Naval Systems Integration, Electronic Warfare, or related fields. You will have prior knowledge of the key principles of the domain and can quickly grasp the lifecycles and approaches to delivering complex systems into Naval service. You will have worked with or for the Royal Navy (or similar tier 1 navies) in the delivery of complex tactical equipment such as combat systems, sonar systems, radar systems or similar.

The Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM) is the “Engineering partner” of the Project Manager (PM). The EDM is in charge of meeting costs / schedule / quality of the whole engineering delivery (system, software and hardware for the solution and all elements of the solution) in the project through the organization and orchestration of all the engineering work performed on the project, taking into account industrial and service related constraints. This includes the definition of development strategy, Engineering Environment (tailoring of standard Processes, Practices & Tools), progress tracking of the whole development including IVVQ activities and risks and opportunities management.

Role Description

As an Engineering Delivery Manager your role will consist of:

• Working as a technical manager across the Project Engineering Lifecycle: development activities, risks and opportunities, schedules, etc.
• Translating needs into requirements and building the development strategy (“problem scoping phase”)
• Structuring and mastering the delivery process
• Mastering the technical debt, the co-contracting and subcontracting
• Facilitating collaborative work across teams and stakeholders
• Providing the best engineering solutions for customers, being in close touch with them and being the quality guarantee of the engineering solutions provided to the customers
• Contributing to the future products of Thales group
• Working on complex, disruptive and stimulating projects
  
  
  

Principal Relationships

• Electronic Warfare Product Line Engineers, Architects and Managers
• EW Project Delivery Teams (including Project Management)
• Domain Technical and Engineering Managers
• Domain Functional Management
• The wider multi-discipline engineering team
  
  
  

Profile of the successful candidate

• You graduated with an Engineering or Scientific degree, and you have significant experience in architecture and engineering systems
• You are a leader willing to engage and develop your team through the use of collaborative work and challenging approaches
• You know how to verify the technical deliverables of engineering teams (customer needs, OCD, requirements, architecture choice…)
• You are able to lead and manage technical engineering projects, meeting the requirements with a clear view of the risks and opportunities
• You are able to engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders as well as creating clear and achievable goals
• You are able to take decisions–even in uncertain contexts
  
  
  

Desired Knowledge or Skills

• Major project delivery (>40 Engs);
• Naval systems design & development.
• IVVQ/ITEA,
• Planning and monitoring
  
  
  

Your career and life 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
  
  
  

What We Can Offer

We are 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.

Our packages will include significant bonus, car allowance, a strong pension contribute, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

Security Clearance Statement

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

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.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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