Location: Glasgow, United KingdomThales 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 Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.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.
Discipline Manager – Algorithms
Glasgow – Hybrid
Thales Optronics (OME) designs a range of state-of-the-art solutions for some of the most technically advanced defence and security platforms in the world. Our Glasgow Optronics teams design and manufacture a diverse range of Electro-Optical products including Thermal Imagers, Laser Rangefinders & Designators, Vehicle Sighting Systems and Submarine Periscopes & Optronics Masts.
We are currently looking for a strong people manager, with a technical/engineering background to join us as the Discipline Manager for our Algorithms team.
Our Opportunity
As a Discipline Manger based in Glasgow, your role encompasses leading the implementation of processes, tools and governance within the OME Algorithms team. Reporting to the Head of Specialities Engineering, your responsibilities extend to managing personnel and enhancing the competencies of the team members.
This position demands strong leadership and interpersonal skills to effectively guide the team, facilitate continuous improvement, and provide support for individual professional growth. You will also be instrumental in driving the team's performance and maintaining a conducive and productive work environment.
In this role, effective leadership and communication skills are essential, as you will be responsible for driving the team's performance, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and providing guidance and support to team members as they work towards their professional development goals.
This is an excellent opportunity to evolve and grow your competencies within leadership and people management across a growing function, as well as provide a valuable contribution to the Technical Specialities team as a whole in OME.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy the adequate Practices and Tools tailored to reach the required maturity according to Project/Product delivery challenges
- Work with the discipline delivery team to make them efficient - identify gaps and associated actions to support continuous improvement
- Encourage adoption of new technologies and tools
- Capitalise and share knowledge and assets
- Allocate Subject Matter Experts and enable coaching within the team
- Manage and develop individual and collective team skills & ensure allocation of people to products / projects
- Contribute to bids and project peer reviews, reducing technical/engineering risks and increasing confidence to deliver
About you and the experience we require
You will be an experienced people manager who has led complex multi-disciplinary teams defining the processes, practices and tools to be used in order to deliver an engineering solutions to meet the needs of projects and customers. You will have a track record of developing people as well as have experience leading teams through change and continuous improvement.
- You will have significant experience in team management, ideally possessing knowledge of Engineering, Technical or Defence environments.
- You will have gained knowledge and/or experience in understanding complex engineering solutions, including the engineering development lifecycle. Knowledge/experience of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Technologies, Mathematics and/or Statistics would be advantageous
- You want to bring innovation through collaborative and multidisciplinary teams by integrating the scientific approach into an engineering system methodology
- You will know how to adopt a Lean Management approach and apply Agile principles to the management and development of your team, in Scrum and / or Kanban mode.
- You are a leader willing to engage and develop your team through the use of collaborative work and challenging approaches
- You love to share knowledge and help people develop themselves, which enables you to be recognised as a great mentor and team-player
- We are looking for an individual invested and passionate about people, able to empower and unite employees around clear objectives by activing as a coach and developing talent.
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)
What We Can Offer
We’re 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.
This role will come with a package including bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, significant pension contributions
Flexibility
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 is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
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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.
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