Discipline Manager (Functional Engineering Manager)

As a Discipline Manager, you will be responsible for improving engineering discipline practices, strengthening focus on people development, ensuring knowledge sharing, and enforcing balance between engineering discipline and delivery. You will contribute to engineering initiatives, define and tailor discipline practices, assess skills, manage hiring strategies, and foster collaboration. Key responsibilities include contributing to the Systems, Infrastructure and Speciality Engineering Discipline Governance, ensuring the capitalization and sharing of knowledge, and promoting the adoption of new technologies. You will also be involved in workforce planning, managing the team's development, and fostering an innovation and entrepreneurship culture. The role requires proven experience in Systems Engineering lifecycle management and managing staff, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to manage change and make independent decisions.

Must Have

• Experience in Systems Engineering lifecycle management (10+ years)
• Experience in managing and coaching staff (5+ years)
• Ability to develop and promote high performing teams
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

Good to Have

• Good knowledge of Air Traffic Management systems

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

• Improve the engineering discipline practices (process and tools)
• Strengthen our focus on people development
• Ensure the sharing and capitalization of knowledge across the organization
• Enforce balance between engineering discipline and delivery

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Discipline Manager, you are accountable for:

• Contribute and support the Engineering Manager in building a clear vision and direction for Engineering initiatives and communicate to the team
• Contribute to the Systems, Infrastructure and Speciality Engineering Discipline Governance
• Define and tailor discipline practices (process and tools)
• Ensure the capitalization and sharing of knowledge
• Contribute to the discipline efficiency plan to increase business competitiveness
• Promote adoption of new technologies
• Be responsible for the engineering discipline cost model definition and updates
• Assess skills required for current and future projects needs including future discipline trends
• Development/upskilling of the team and career management
• Conduct strategic workforce planning including the provision of resources to fulfil current and future bid and project needs
• Roll-out Make Team Buy strategy for the forecasted workload (incoming activities)
• Define and Manage Hiring strategy and recruitment, onboarding
• Foster collaboration with other disciplines to define multi-discipline solutions with added value
• Foster an innovation and entrepreneurship culture

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, IT or related discipline
• Postgraduate studies in Systems Engineering (Desirable)

Essential Experience

• Proven experience in Systems Engineering lifecycle management (10+ years) including; Requirements, Design, Integration and Verification and Validation
• Proven experience in the development of products and projects in a variety of methodologies, with a particular focus on iterative/agile development
• Proven experience (5+ years) in managing and coaching staff
• Demonstrated ability to achieve effective outcomes in a multidiscipline, multi-culture environment
• Experience with Safety, Security and Human Factors standards and practices
• Experience with Infrastructure design processes
• Experience with Network design and deployment processes
• Ability to develop and promote high performing teams
• Develop and foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Coaching and sharing of his/her know-how
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders having different objectives
• Accountability, transparency and curiosity
• A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
• An ability to successfully manage change
• Comfort in facing and managing complexity
• Sound judgement and independent decision-making capability where necessary
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

Desirable:

• Good knowledge of Air Traffic Management systems

General / Special Requirements

• Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales' key values.
• An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
• An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
• An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
• Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimizing accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practices at all times.
• Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Occasional international travel may be required