EW Systems PDA 2023

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 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.

Primary Purpose of Role

The PDA is part of a bid or project team within the Electronic Warfare and Radar Business. The primary purpose is responsible for solution creation in preparation for bids and solution compliance across all phases of the systems engineering lifecycle within a project including in Service.

Principle Relationships

• EW&R Design Authority
• Project/bid Manager and project management team
• Systems Engineering Manager
• Systems Architect
• Regulators
• ISR UK Technical Director
• Customers technical representatives

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• The PDA guarantees that the technical solution is feasible, competitive and meets customer expectations, in terms of cost, innovation, performance, schedule, etc.
• Acts as the primary technical leader of the bid or project team. Acts as lead technical interface with the Customer (or PLM for a Product).
• Monitor, review, advise and assist with technical issues across the programme.
• Ensures the solution compliance with Product Policy, contractual requirements (including offsets) and applicable legislation & regulations (ie export restrictions, Environmental/HSE, safety, security..)
• Checks that the Engineering Environment (process, practices and tools) for the Solution is consistent with Country/Company requirements, and overall Solution cost, technical risks & schedule.
• Reviews together with the SEM (System Engineering Manager) the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project.
• Prepares the DVa and submits it to the Design Authority (DA) approval.
• Approves the main bid/project engineering reviews and deliverables.
• Organizes when appropriate technical meetings and peer reviews together with the Architect (ARC) and the SEM and other stakeholders (industry, services, specialists…), in order to perform the solution technical assessment and validation

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Radar/Electronic Warfare systems engineering in the maritime/land/air environment.
• Radar/RESM/RECM performance modeling, design, development, integration and trials.
• Preparation of bids for domestic and export customers.
• Deep understanding of digital Radar / EW receiver technology and techniques.
• Experience across the engineering life cycle

Highly Desirable

• Understanding of wide variety of engineering disciplines (systems, software, hardware, EMC, RF…).
• Experience of certification of Radar/EW systems to customer specifications and managing the customer through this process

Skills

• Ability to generate innovative solutions including system acceptance and system certification within a competitive environment
• Ability to understand and design complex systems
• Ability to communicate, guide and lead all disciplines of engineering teams
• Ability to act as technical point of contact for the customer.

Education and Qualifications

• Engineering/Physics BEng/BSc or equivalent.

Behaviours and Values

• Acts within the Thales 4 key values and demonstrates a professional, committed approach to all tasks undertaken. Displays passion, energy, drive, agility and resilience in achieving work-related goals under difficult circumstances. Enjoys or thrives on developing and performing through teamwork.
• Self-Motivated/Flexible with a constructive 'can do' attitude
• A good problem solver showing initiative and improvisation.
• Able to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives.
• Demonstrates attention to detail, particularly in investigating problems, and a pride in producing accurate work.
• Must be able to work in a multi-disciplined team environment with Suppliers, Thales employees and Customer present.
• Excellent technical observational and communications skills.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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