Deployment Manager
Thales Group
Deployment Manager
Salary Not Specified
Thales Group, Reading
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 14 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 70f6ae9dbe1c4d4480014b9d7ad4f397
Full Job Description
- Having overall responsibility for deployment activities to various ports around the UK and for two sites outside of the UK based in France and Belgium.
- Responsible for ensuring that the deployment is successful (meeting both customer and Thales expectations), efficient and consistent in approach across the various ports.
- The role will include resource management, supplier management, project management and include both pre-onsite and onsite activities.
- Key interfaces will be with the Thales Programme Lead and PMO Lead. the end customer, the port operators and both wider Thales team members and Suppliers associated with the delivery/deployment.
- Reporting to the Thales Programme Lead on a day to day basis.
- Reporting to the Implementation/Deployment Lead would be the Site Project Managers (Anticipated to be between 3 and 5 in number dependent on time period)
Education/Certification: - Degree Level Qualification in a suitable subject is desirable.
- Prince 2 or similar Project Management Qualification
- Must have or be able to get UK Security Check Clearance
- 10 years experience of leading complex deployment projects successfully
- Proven track record of delivering results in a pressurised environment.
- Experience of working as a Supplier Project Manager with UK Government/ UK Home Office
- Experience of working on large integration/ deployment projects related to airports/sea ports/ rail ports.
- Experience of working on complex integrated HW and SW Deliveries.
- Experience of managing workpackage teams across multiple locations- both in and outside UK
Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.
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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., 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.