Location: Crawley, 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.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

The Integration, Verification, Validation & Qualification (IVVQ) team provide an IVVQ, Installation, Setting-to-work, and development and acceptance trials service to a DA-CIP programme.

The IVVQ role provides an end-user perspective to these activities, in that the products being tested are assessed with respect to being fit for operation.

The candidate will be required to maintain an excellent working relationship with the Customer and End User communities, understanding their needs and communicating this effectively to the relevant business sector in a manner which ensures product and staff development is maintained.

Principal Relationships:

• The IVVQM & Integration SEMs to ensure customer acceptance activities are completed.
• With the Design Engineers to communicate and track compliance issues form detection through to resolution
• With the Customer and End-User community.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

Manage the Integration, Verification & Validation of Sonars through all activities in the SIT&S lifecycle:

• Provision Systems engineering support to Hardware & Software teams during subsystem integration activities
• Generation of System Test Plans, Procedures & Results
• Creation of System Release, Installation & Setting to Work instructions
• Support to the IVVQ Manager, Installation Manager & Field Service Team during ship installation, setting to work & trials
• Review the IVVQ plans and Specifications for subcontracted items

Skills

Essential

Systems Engineering experience, including knowledge of tools & processes.

Ability to communicate effectively with Customer and End-User community.

Desirable

Ability to apply Sonar experience to product acceptance

Experience:

Essential

• Record of delivery of IVVQ within Maritime Defence sector
• Support to Field Service Teams during ship installation, setting to work & trials

Desirable

• Experience of Surface ASW Operational Environment regards the associated Sonars, Command and Control Systems and the roles undertaken.
• Knowledge of Sonar architectures and performance

Qualifications:

Essential

Degree, or equivalent, in engineering or scientific subject.

Desirable

Membership of appropriate engineering or scientific Institute.

Thales UK: Defence

Thales UK provides armed forces with crucial military technology, including sophisticated Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting Acquisition and Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR) systems. The aim: to provide a cohesive, rapid response capability to protect our service personnel and interests.

Thales UK Key Facts

• Each year, Thales registers more than 300 patents
• A prominent retailer commissioned Thales to develop a ‘heat-sensing people counter' for use in its 400 stores
• 90% of all UK credit card transactions are secured by Thales
• Over 120,000 Thales Chip & PIN terminals have been installed across Europe
• Thales UK has earned 79 Queen's Awards for Technology and Export
• 90% of our sales are sourced from the UK
• 7% of our revenue is reinvested in R & D
• Thales has invested more than £2bn in the UK within the last 10 years
• Thales is the second largest defence systems supplier
• Thales embodies many famous companies, including Racal, Shorts Missiles, Pilkington Optronics, Redifon MEL, Thomson Marconi Sonar, Thorn Missile Electronics, Avimo, Helio and others

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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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