Team Manager CMS Hardware Engineering

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At the Mechanical & Electrical Engineering discipline, we develop and design cutting edge hardware systems for applications such as search radars, fire control, and combat management equipment for customers in both naval and ground domains. Our solutions meet rigorous operational standards to ensure the highest quality and performance.

The department includes mechanical, electrical, and procured parts engineering teams, as well as an Environmental Competence Center. Our designs are utilized across the internal supply chain, by subcontractors, and directly by customers. We foster a supportive, creative workplace that promotes learning and professional growth and values teamwork, technical excellence, and adoption of new technologies and industry practices.

We are in search for a:

Team Manager Hardware Engineer

About the job

Two of our segments are responsible for the F126 program and our Combat Management Systems (CMS). The CMS is the central command and decision making element of a naval vessel combat system, supporting sensor management, picture compilation, situation assessment, action support, and weapon control. This equipment is engineered and validated within the CMS Hardware segment.

Your responsibilities:

• Manage a multidisciplinary team of approximately 30 mechanical and electrical architects and engineers.

• Build and maintain a delivery focused culture, including skills development, resource planning, and continuous improvement of engineering processes and tools.

• Ensure competence management to maintain competitiveness and match resources to segment needs (workload, processes, practices, tools, and skills).

• Ensure discipline processes are controlled and stable across all lifecycle phases of bids and projects.

• Define and drive the technical innovation roadmap for your discipline, promoting adoption of state of the art technologies.

• Proactively allocate resources to staff development and sustainment projects, ensuring project timelines and deliverables are met.

• Guide the team through the annual HR cycle, including performance evaluations, professional development, and career planning.

• Interface and cooperate with other engineering departments within the Thales Group.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Mechatronic Engineering.

• Proven people manager with several years of engineering management experience.

• Team player focused on achieving common goals and developing others.

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with clear communication and alignment capabilities.

• Entrepreneurial, flexible, and open minded attitude with a “can do” mentality.

• Experience with cabinet or control panel design is a plus.

Wherever your passion lies, Thales can help you make the best use of your skills and creativity. As a contractor at Thales, you can expect to experience:

• An interesting job within a team of experts in an international high-tech environment.

• Room for and attention to personal development and personal initiative.

• The opportunity to grow within the organization, whether in a technical, managerial, commercial or international capacity.

• A flexible work environment with a focus on maintaining a good work-life balance.

Thales offers untold opportunities to take part in fascinating projects and overcome ambitious human and technological challenges. As a contractor, you’ll be part of a community of experts bringing together innovations from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace. Collaborating to find solutions to the biggest challenges in the most difficult conditions.

Drawing on a diversity of expertise, perspectives and cultures, we are able to provide the best possible solutions to our customers. Together, we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.

Randstad, as the EMEA Thales talent acquisition partner, is responsible for finding and contracting talent for the contingent roles at Thales. If you are selected for a role you will be engaged or employed by one of the Randstad recruitment companies in EMEA and will not be an employee of Thales.

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This position offers a one-year contract with the opportunity to transition to a permanent contract at Thales Nederland after the first year.

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