Location: Manor Royal Crawley Overseas, 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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.
PMO Project Manager
Location: Gdynia, Poland
Do you want to be part of an exciting team who delivers cutting edge projects? Are you a proven leader with seasoned experience in delivering large scale projects? Then apply today!
What the role has to offer:
Opportunity to work on a high-profile and strategic programme critical to Thales UK.
Excellent learning and career prospects in a growing area for Thales UK.
International placement offering exciting opportunity to interface with our overseas colleagues whilst working with new technology and equipment.
Our Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Project/Programme Manager to join a growing Above Water Systems business, to be based in Gdynia, Poland.
The PMO is an Integrated Programme Team (IPT) involving all the key stakeholder companies involved in the programme. Thales will support this construct through the provision of a team of ‘customer friend’ roles, to act as part of, and in the interests of, the customer. As PMO Project Manager, you will act as Design Authority during the design and build phase of the project, you will be responsible for the co-ordination of the programme’s projects and management of the interdependencies, including oversight of any risks and issues that may arise. You will also coordinate the Polish capabilities to the ICS to enable assured system delivery and acceptance.
Day to day you will:
Act as Delegated Design Authority; responsibility for the ICS design in accordance with the Design Authority (DA) principles. As the project develops it will be the responsibility of the Design Authority to ensure that the design achieves the agreed technical requirements, meets all relevant health, safety and environmental standards and As Low as Reasonably Practicable principles and that technical risks are managed to tolerable levels.
Be the lead technical interface with the Customer, ensuring solution compliance with Product Policy, production/services strategies, contractual requirements (including offsets) and applicable legislation & regulations.
Check that the Engineering Environment (process, practices and tools) for the Solution is consistent with Country/Company requirements, and overall Solution cost, technical risks & schedule.
Review and report on, together with the Engineering Manager, the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project.
Participate as part of the combat system integration working group.
Approve the main ICS engineering reviews and deliverables.
Organize technical meetings and peer reviews together with the Architect and the Engineering Manager and other stakeholders in order to perform the solution technical assessment and validation.
About you
You will be a proven leader with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Your stakeholder management skills will be critical as you navigate relationships across cultural boundaries to efficiently deliver to both the business and our customers. A demonstrable record of on budget and on time delivery will be desirable, alongside seasoned experience of large Project delivery. You will need experience in Contract Management within complex Maritime Integration Programmes in a military customer environment and in depth knowledge of best practise within Project controls.
Additional Security Information
Due to the sensitive nature of much of the work, all applicants must be eligible for UK MoD Security Clearance (SC level minimum).
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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