PCB Manager

Location: Reading, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

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.

Primary Purpose of Role:

• We are looking for a PCB Manager to join the UK ECC (Engineering Competence Centre) in the Central Engineering team that is challenged with supporting complex PCB projects across all Thales Domains.

Location(s): Crawley or Reading or Cheadle or Bristol or Templecombe or Belfast or Glasgow or any other Thales site in the UK

Principle Relationships: Relationships will be required to be built and maintained with the following principals:

• Engineering Director
• Engineering Operations Director
• Head of ECC-UK
• MoB&F Director
• CBU Heads of Hardware
• Head of HR, Engineering
• CBU Heads of Engineering
  
  
  

Key responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Support the optimisation of Thales UK performance: costs and schedule adherence of any activity by delivering PCB development related elements of an engineering competitiveness action plan by simplifying / adapting the processes, practices tools and interfaces and changing the working methods in appropriate engineering domains.
• Manage and optimise the PCB design, development and verification capability within ECC-UK. Quantify skills, competences, processes, tools and facilities in line with business needs (including improvement of accurate or estimated resource demand within IBP)

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.

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 abo

ut 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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