Location: Hengelo, Netherlands

About the team

The Supportability Engineering department consists of 50 domain experts and is responsible for the definition, development and realization of ILS (Integrated Logistics Support) for our radar and combat management systems. The department consists of the disciplines; Maintenance Engineering, Obsolescence Management, Customer Documentation and Customer Training.

For the Supportability department we are looking for a Team Manager Maintenance Engineering & Obsolescence Management. The team consist of the following two disciplines:

The Maintenance Engineering team (11 headcount):

Maintenance Engineers and Provisioning Engineers, who play a key role in defining maintenance and influencing the design for a maintainable system;Project Lifecycle Engineers, who support our programs from a Logistics/Maintenance point of view during the lifecycle of our systems. 

The Obsolescence team (9 headcount):

Obsolescence Engineering; performing obsolescence scans, aligning with suppliers (internal/external) for the providing Obsolescence information and maintaining internal database with this information.Obsolescence Managers; who consider the lifespan of all parts of our complex radar and command and control systems. Developing Obsolescence Management Plans outlines strategies for identifying and mitigating the effects of aging through all stages of the product lifecycle. This minimizes the impact on availability at our customers.

About your future job

As a people manager with a strong personality and a pragmatic and transparent way of working, you manage the Maintenance Engineers and Obsolescence teams. Given the current and future workload of the organization, it will be your challenge to assure the right allocation of our experts to the projects and protecting them against work-pressure. In addition, a strong focus is required for a vision of our standardization topics and data consistency. In this function, your responsibilities will be to: 

manage and develop the teamsmanage the related processes and tooling, aligned with related departmentsdefine the future skills required for the teams and develop the teams towards these skillsensure the quality assurance process of their outputmanage improvement initiatives and develop innovations with related departments support development of the Obsolescence roadmap together with the End-to-End Process Manager Obsolescenceorganize resource allocation and planning of the teamsbe actively involved in facilitating and managing the work for multiple projects at the same time

Why you'd be a good match

You have at least a Bachelor degree, preferably in a technical field (Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or similar) and you have the following working experience:

experience as a line manager in a high-tech environment with at least 10 direct reportsexperience in planning/scheduling and cost estimation techniques in a project and product environment

The job requires the following skills:

leadership and management skills with the ability to “change and deliver”ability to focus on on-time delivery and delivery within budgetstrong communication skills with the team, other engineers and managersflexible and open for changes and innovations within your professionproactiveOpen-minded and able to bring added value and innovationfluent English and Dutch both written and spoken.

What's in it for you 

A challenging job in a great team within our high-tech, innovative work environment. Includes the freedom for initiative and good ideas.Room for personal and professional growth within our organization, for example in regards to technical, commercial or international skills. Valuable international collaboration with coworkers from 68 different countries around the globe. A comfortable work space in a modern environment, with a focus on flexibility and the right work life balance.You can usually work where and when you want to be able to do your work as well and efficiently as possible. Within Thales we implement hybrid working, where you can, for example, work from home two days a week if your role allows it.A good salary, fitting travel allowance, and the ability to personalize your employment conditions: for instance, you can trade days off for internet costs, our bicycle plan, company fitness and relocation costs.40 days off per year (PTO). Yes, really.

LR 09 VKG 70

 
Questions?
Reach out for more information to our Talent Acquisition Partner Gerlof Jan Heck, via +31 (0) 638697390 or gerlofjan.heck@nl.thalesgroup.com.

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