Manor Royal Business District
Location
Crawley, West Sussex | United Kingdom
Job description
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.
Future ISR Technical Lead
Based in Crawley
Are looking for an exciting technical leadership opportunity? Would you like an impactful role, at the cutting edge exploring next generation and generation after next concepts with DSTL and through internal R&D funding? Is this is the role for you!
What the role has to offer:
Working across the ISR domain with visibility of all the products and services
Working in an agile and dynamic team to explore the latest technologies and concepts
Part of the Technical Leadership team
LR10 Technical Leadership opportunity
Working with the customer to understand their future needs
Working with academia and Thales RTSI to pull through latest capabilities into ISR products and solutions
Our Opportunity
ISR UK currently have an exciting opportunity for a Future ISR Lead to join the team, based in Crawley.
This is a really exciting time to join ISR, following focussed transformation projects to improve the ways of working and delivery performance, ISR are currently mobilising new, high profile contracts to continue to deliver critical capability to the UK and export customers.
As Future ISR Lead, you will position ISR as a thought leader within industry, providing Design Authority oversight, coaching, mentoring and for leading innovation around next-generation and generation-after-next technologies and solutions through the winning and execution of R&D/S&T projects
Lead on innovation activities relevant to the ISR product and portfolios strategies
Participate on relevant internal and external forums to project F-ISR and Thales UK as thought-leaders and collaborators in relevant MOD activities.
Provide overall Future ISR Design Authority guidance and reviews to maintain quality, on-time deliveries, customer satisfaction and advantageous teaming
Maintain and develop an ISR R&D/S&T strategy aligned to ISR Product and Portfolio roadmaps and MOD Next-Generation and Generation-After-Next programmes.
Propose Prototype Demonstration activities to bring future concepts to life, presenting to all stakeholders to influence future ISR development activities.
Identify CFRD opportunities matching ISR’s need for aligned, funded R&D, S&T to meet F-ISR targets.
Write winning bid proposals in collaboration (where sensible and possible) with RTI, other TUK BUs, SMEs and Academia.
Develop team member skills and experience to improve CFRD win rate and execution quality.
About you
You will have demonstrable knowledge of the ISTAR domain covering both customer and stakeholder communities as well as competitors. You will have experience of leading Innovation and problem-solving with novel methods, methodologies, technologies and approaches. You will have conducted Research & Development and Science and Technology activities from Concept ideation, through bid stage, execution and delivery. You will have experience of relating product and portfolio roadmaps to customer and stakeholder requirements and opportunities. You should be able to critique architectures, technical designs, estimates and project scoping of work packages.
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.
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.
If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner or the Hiring Manager
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
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