Location: Tubize, Belgium

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*Human Intelligence – Welcome among Thales Team!

Thales in Belgium is part of an internationally leading technology group in the defence and security, aerospace as well as digital identity and security markets. In a world characterised by uncertainties, we ensure that our customers, partners and employees can pursue new paths with confidence. For a future we can all trust.

Say HI* – to your career as

Head of Engineering

At the Tubize site

In Tubize, you will join more than 250 colleagues recognized by domestic and international partners for expertise on products such as Radio Frequency (RF) Products, C4ISR, Crypto Global Solution, MACS (Aeronautical Intercom) and many others.

Today the Group employs more than 1,000 people across nine sites in Belgium. Discover all Thales activities in Belgium here.

To address its competitiveness and growth challenges, the Engineering Competence Center (CCI) ensures that teams have an optimal working environment and that the conditions for success are provided to the teams

The Engineering department covers the definition and the development of activities for products & solutions to be delivered to the customers. This is accomplished by:

• Understanding customer needs. Your team will need a concept of operations definition, a concept of maintenance & support over the product lifecycles along with requirements elicitation;
• The design (architecture definition, alternatives and trade-offs analysis, installation design), development (modelling, coding, unit testing, technical debt management);
• IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification), support to handover to operational use and maintenance over the whole product lifecycle;
• Contribution to industrialization phases;
• Service delivery for solutions.

Mission:

The Head of Engineering responsibilities consist of defining a vision, driving the competitive improvement (Engineering Performance Plan) and the growth of your future organization.

Main responsibilities;

As our new Head of Engineering, you will:

• Report the engineering performance plan, progress and results to our Domain Director;
• Provide your improvement growth/maturity strategy. It is based on business challenges, KPI competitiveness, root cause analysis of challenges identified in bids and ongoing projects within your engineering organization;
• Manage the Heads of Disciplines (Electronics - Software Application & Embedded - Systems), Head of Delivery and Engineering Operations, making up this engineering organization;
• Lead the Competence Centre that gathers all the engineering activities.

Profile:

• You graduated with a Master of Engineering, Computer Science or any related field;
• You have a minimum 7-10 years’ experience as an Engineering Manager in a technically challenging environment;
• You have a proven record with managing projects in complex product developments, industrialization of products, as well as technical management and operational organization;
• You are able to develop a strategy in order to foster competitiveness and performance improvement;
• You have the ability to define requirements, capitalize and estimate costs. You know how to use your organizational skills to guarantee the follow-up of engineering projects, respecting deadlines, costs and quality with a clear vision of risks and opportunities;
• You have a good understanding of data and business issues;
• You have a strong sense of initiative and leadership;
• You are results driven, customers oriented, quality focused and respectful of ethics;
• You are fluent in French & English, ideally in Dutch also;
• A previous experience within the Defence or Aeronautical sector is a big advantage.

Skills:

• You have the ability to take and meet commitments;
• You have great listening & communication skills (both verbal and written);
• Rigorousness, commitment and accountability are important to you;
• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• You consider yourself a decision-maker and a critical thinker;
• You demonstrate high motivation, great availability and strong responsiveness;
• You enjoy leading teams, want to motivate, train and appraise employees’ performance;
• You enjoy working within an Agile team and being plunged into a challenging environment requiring decisiveness, reactivity and resourcefulness.

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 81,000 employees on five continents. The Group is investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – Big Data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust.

For more than 20 years, Thales has pursued a robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy based on the highest international standards. The principles behind this policy are now captured in the company’s purpose of “building a future we can all trust”, which was adopted in 2020.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? We are looking forward to your online application. Great journeys start here, apply now!

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