Location: Gorgonzola, ItalyThales 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.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.
In the field of NAS equipment developments, ensure the delivery of the development work packages consistent with the commitments in term of cost, schedule, performance and quality. The outcomes of the development work packages are complete equipment data packages which include at least updated documents as specifications, architecture, design, design justification, acceptance & report procedures which demonstrate the qualification of a new product baseline.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND MAIN INTERFACES
This activity consists of planning, organizing, controlling and monitoring activities and resources accordingly, so that the development are completed as successfully as possible in spite of all the risks and thanks to the opportunities.
The activities shall be performed in a collaborative way with the main internal stakeholders:
Product Engineering Delivery Managers (EDM) who manage the engineering activities per product
External Program Managers (PM) who manage external contracts which requested product evolutions (e.g outcomes of the Development Workpackages)
Engineering Head of disciplines (HoD) who are the line manager of the engineering resources working on the development work package
Product Line Manager (PLM) who is the internal customer in term of product development road map achievement.
Engineering cost estimate engineer who will (*) provide the validated quotations and associated cost model and cost models
MAIN ACTIVITIES
Define Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS) and Work Package descriptions based on the deliveryoriented Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) from the Product Breakdown structure (PBS) with the main milestones
Regularly identify, manage and monitor risks & opportunities to master the Estimate at completion (EAC)
Conduct periodical progress meetings with the engineering team and make visible the work progress and decision tree to analyze progress metrics, to perform collaborative problem solving, to proactively manage the schedule and to decide and record decision rationales
Share the Engineering project dashboard with Project Manager and HoD. It includes progress vs forecasts with relevant Key performance Indicators (KPIs), EAC based on defined methods or estimation models, workload and resource needs
Capitalize on engineering data (metrics and KPI) with the engineering cost estimate engineer to be predictable
Pace a short continuous improvement loop into the development strategy, covering: target setting, retrospective / retex, root cause analysis, identification and execution of actions, measurement of results to improve efficiency
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
The candidate shall have a solid experience in Program or Work package management in Development equipment activities, that induces experience on PERT and GANTT practices, resources allocations, Risks and opportunities management and associated tools (Dash board, Microsoft project, Primavera, Risks registers).
The candidate shall have leader ship, communications and negotiation skills to be capable to ensure the commitment of the teams on the work packages outcomes.
It’s desirable that candidate has experience on engineering development process including agile development, earn value management and Lean approach.
LANGUAGES (besides Italian)
English, fluent in writing and speech
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