Engineering Workpackage Manager

The Engineering Work Package Manager (WPM) for the Radio communication system.

This role will manage the end-to-end Project Engineering Lifecycle: Development activities, risks and opportunities, schedules and coordinate the delivery activities in order to ensure the performance and milestones.

Manage the Engineering team to deliver the solution,

Structuring and mastering the delivery process,

Mastering the technical debt and the impact on the planning and the delivery,

Managing the co-contracting and subcontracting activities

Facilitating collaborative work across teams and stakeholders

Providing the best engineering solutions for customers, being in close touch with them and being the quality guarantee of the engineering solutions provided to the customers

Contributing to the future products of Thales group

Working on complex, disruptive and stimulating projects

His team is composed of different roles and engineering disciplines, from Solution Architecture, System Engineering to Software Engineers and Integration engineers (IVVQ)

In addition to this delivery aspect, the position holder needs to master the technical content to manage the financial, planning and reporting aspects and to anticipate difficulties encountered as well as opportunities available to the team.

This position will require significant experience in used technologies for this project:

Radio communication technologies,

System and radio hosting infrastructure.

Relevant work package management or project management role (minimum 5 years)

Proven experience of managing za delivery team >20 people

Have good skillset in delivery of complex systems (Software + New technologies, Cyber and integrated team localized in different counties)

Project management techniques (scheduling, risk management, estimating, progress reporting, stakeholder management)

Experience in a multi-disciplined and multi-cultural environments

Relevant on producing engineering documentation: Specifications, design, IVVQ deliverables, user manuals …

Demonstrated leadership and ability to manage technical engineering projects, meeting the requirements with a clear view of the risks and opportunities

Demonstrated ability to manage tradeoffs on project: technical choices, on time delivery, technical depth, customer satisfaction, etc.

You are able to engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders as well as creating clear and achievable goals

You are able to take decisions–even in uncertain contexts

Radio, Tactical Data Link systems

Communication Networks

Infrastructure and IT Solution

Mission critical systems e.g. C2 / C4

Large and complex systems