Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom
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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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.

SKILLS:

a) An ability to work collaboratively within a team environment and demonstrate:

• Good interpersonal skills,
• Good communication and presentation skills,
• Proactive “can-do” mentality,
• Logical problem solving approaches.

b) Ability to understand and implement Product Line Engineering strategies
c) Ability to technically lead design and development activities, interfacing with other technical disciplines as required.

d) The holder of the role must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Electronics Engineering Toolsets, Practices and Lifecycles
• Electronics Design Principles
• Hardware Design and Development, including Design for Manufacture Principles.
• Hardware Test Principles including Hardware Validation & Verification

Desirable:

• Experience of working within the field of Underwater Sensors.
• DFM principles and implementation.
• Proven development and coaching of junior team members.

EXPERIENCE:

• A minimum of five years’ experience in an Electronics Engineering role in an appropriate engineering field, e.g. Maritime, Aerospace, Defence, etc.

Desirable:

• Experience working on underwater acoustics and/or sonar.
• The design of equipment for the sub-sea environment.
• Experience with Design for Cost / Design for Manufacture, manufacturing specifications and transition to production environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• HNC / HND / Degree OR Proven experience in a similar role of at least 10 years.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Be the Electronics Engineering Lead for the Towed Array Portfolio, supporting product and development. To provide direction to the electronics team and increase the capability of the Electronics team.
• Provide support to the PDA (Project Design Authority) and PLA (Product Line Authority) in a technical capacity.
• To enable assimilation between product architecture and electronics architecture within the Towed Array Portfolio.
• Support and mentor other members of the TA team.
• To carry out general engineering tasks as required by the business.
• With the support of other members of the team, carry out more specialised electronics design tasks associated with design for the subsea environment.
• Provide trials and integration support as required.
• Take the lead in all electronics activities within the TA team.

d) The holder of the role must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Electronics Engineering Toolsets, Practices and Lifecycles
• Electronics Design Principles
• Hardware Design and Development, including Design for Manufacture Principles.
• Hardware Test Principles including Hardware Validation & Verificatio