Team Manager Operational Analysis (OPAN)

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Thales Netherlands develops advanced radar and combat management systems. The Systems Engineering department is responsible for the design of new products and for managing software and hardware development. OPAN is a specialized cross-segment team housed within Systems Engineering.

The members of OPAN provide in-depth knowledge and expertise to address issues characterized as New, Few, and Complex. It is a group of highly educated employees, many of whom hold PhDs. They do not always belong to the product organization and offer the independence and impartiality needed to address comprehensive system issues at an abstract level, both above and within the concrete product. This spans from Technical Readiness Level 1 to 9, from concept to customer.

OPAN provides a unique value to the TNL organization with indispensable operational analyses. It serves many internal and external customers through system knowledge, models, concept studies, and operational performance analyses of systems and complex chains.

We are currently looking for a team manager to lead the OPAN team.

About the job

We are looking for a team manager to lead this team of specialists in a motivating and inspiring way.  With your experience and knowledge, you are able to work closely with the team and ensure that they can perform their complex and diverse tasks efficiently and effectively.

The team consists of about 25 engineers and is working on multiple projects and studies across different product segments. As Team manager you are leading a “small” department and your primary tasks revolve around the performance of this department. Are there enough skilled people in your team to be able to meet the demand? Is your team prepared for the next challenges ahead? How do you retain knowledge when team members transfer to another part of the organization? You will work on capacity planning of your team, development and coaching of your team members, budget management of your team, and stay updated with respect to the status of your team’s expert areas to be able to initiate the necessary process improvements and changes.

You are part of the System Engineering Management Team and you will be reporting to the Head of Discipline System Engineering.

What you’ll bring

• Clear sense of how to leverage your personality, knowledge and experience to bring out the best in others and yourself;

• You will set the direction, provide energy and connect with your team;

• Good interpersonal and good communication skills towards stakeholders;

• Analytical and solution focused;

• Solid engineering background and you are familiar with system engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering and verification principles;

• High level of creativity, initiative, pragmatism and persuasiveness;

• Experience in people management, team management and being able to understand the challenges a team of specialists is dealing with;

• Fluency in spoken and written English.

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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