Location: Green Park, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

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.

SECC Head of Product Safety Assurance

Location: UK

What this role has to offer:

• Sen Leadership opportunity

• Opportunity to be involved in all Thales UK major projects

• Work with and share knowledge across a wide range of products.

Our Opportunity

Thales UK CHQ Safety Eco-design & Certification Capability (SECC) team have an excellent opportunity for a SECC Head of Product Safety Assurance to join the team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Safety Engineering team who are responsible for the safety of the products and project solutions developed and deployed by the business line and compliance to safety principles, industry specific standards and best practices for the development of safe solutions.

You will support the Safety Engineering Director (SED) in ensuring Legal and Regulatory compliance at a business organisational level and at a Products/Systems/Services (PSS) level.

Day to day you will:

• Assess CBU, Domain and CC compliance performance against Policies, Objectives and Targets.

• Performance Monitoring - CBU/Domains and CCs against the management system models.

• Lead, plan, coordinate and undertake appraisal activities relative to a compliant organisation and PSS.

• Undertake Organisational Assurance activities e.g. OA3 audits of CBU/Domains and CCs.

• Manage and Seek assurance that PSS safety & eco-design occurrences are resolved in a timely and competent manner and reported accordingly - Alignment to Thales UK overall appraisal/audit schedules - Support the development and delivery of PSS Engineering across Thales UK;

• Promote the Product Safety & Eco-design Policies, Governance, Management Systems and Processes,

• Attend the UK SAAG, CBU/Domains and CC PSCs and any other relevant meetings as required;

• Represent Thales UK at related Thales Group events; - Represent Thales UK at Customer, Supplier, Regulator, Trade Organisation, Industry Body and Standards events; - Manage competence of Assurance SME’s

• Identify and, where required, develop and deliver training solutions across Thales UK;

• Facilitate Learning from Experience activities and communicate/share appropriate details. - Develop and propose objectives, targets and KPI’s to the SED & SAAG

About You

The following skills and experience will be required for this role:

• Safety Management Processes, and be experienced in the implementation and delivery of safety activities.

• Managing a specialist team interfacing with a wide range of providers and customers;

• Awareness of product orientated Legislation, Regulation and Standards.

• Product Development Lifecycle, its requirements and application (Design and Project Phase Reviews).

• Broad experience in project management related skills – such as estimating, scheduling, monitoring, and budgeting.

• Knowledge of quality management and configuration control;-Strong background in Engineering Practices.

• Previous experience of working with military and industrial organisation.

• Experienced in developing the strategy for evidence based arguments.

• Good problem solving skills and well-developed data-gathering and analysis skills.

• Experienced in interpreting requirements from contract and other relevant standards, producing best practice planning and implementation.

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

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.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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