Work Package Manager for Test Engineering

at  Thales

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
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.
Job title: Work Package Manager - Test Engineering
Location: Glasgow
Do you have experience of driving the effective delivery of development projects and working closely with stakeholders to achieve project goals? Do you have a passion for driving innovative solutions and challenging the status quo to revolutionise our offering? Do you enjoy building relationships and working within a complex engineering environment? Then look no further…

WHAT THE ROLE HAS TO OFFER:

There is an opportunity to work as a Work Package Manager on test engineering projects, managing a key element of the project (being responsible for tasking, resource management, budget adherence, performance monitoring, reporting and on time delivery within the work package). As a Work Package Manager, you will work with a range of complex internal and external stakeholders, helping to identify and mitigate project risks, whilst striving to achieve efficient on time quality deliverables. In addition, the Work Package Manager will support the PM by acting as their delegate on a mutually agreed basis.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The Work Package Manager is responsible for generation and maintenance of Work Package estimates.
• Definition of the Work Package scope, including deliverables & milestones.
• Formal acceptance of the Work Package in consultation with and on behalf of the team who will be delivering the Work Package scope.
• Allocation of tasks to the delivery team, overseeing progress and co-ordinating delivery as required.
• Ensuring Work Package activities are defined, organised and planned in accordance with budget, scheduling, performance and quality requirements as defined in the Work Package Definition Document
• Regular reporting on Work Package progress using the defined template(s)
• Ensure delivery of the Work Package continuously meets the requirements as set out in the WPDD.
• Ensure that Work Package quality is maintained to the correct standard to assure customer and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Identify, act upon and communicate risks, issues and opportunities developing mitigation actions to supporting successful Work Package delivery
• Ensure the Work Package is closed effectively (e.g. archiving of documents, closing the expenditure authorisations, capitalising and sharing lessons learnt