Discipline Manager (Functional Engineering Manager)

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Singapore
Senior level
Logistics • Transportation
The Role
The Discipline Manager will lead engineering discipline practices, promote people development, ensure knowledge sharing, and manage hiring strategies while achieving business competitiveness and fostering collaboration across disciplines.
Summary Generated by Built In

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

  • Improve the engineering discipline practices (process and tools)
  • Strengthen our focus on people development
  • Ensure the sharing and capitalization of knowledge across the organization
  • Enforce balance between engineering discipline and delivery

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Discipline Manager, you are accountable for:

  • Contribute and support the Engineering Manager in building a clear vision and direction for Engineering initiatives and communicate to the team
  • Contribute to the Systems, Infrastructure and Speciality Engineering Discipline Governance
  • Define and tailor discipline practices (process and tools)
  • Ensure the capitalization and sharing of knowledge
  • Contribute to the discipline efficiency plan to increase business competitiveness
  • Promote adoption of new technologies
  • Be responsible for the engineering discipline cost model definition and updates
  • Assess skills required for current and future projects needs including future discipline trends
  • Development/upskilling of the team and career management
  • Conduct strategic workforce planning including the provision of resources to fulfil current and future bid and project needs
  • Roll-out Make Team Buy strategy for the forecasted workload (incoming activities)
  • Define and Manage Hiring strategy and recruitment, onboarding
  • Foster collaboration with other disciplines to define multi-discipline solutions with added value
  • Foster an innovation and entrepreneurship culture

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

Qualifications

  • Degree in Engineering, IT or related discipline
  • Postgraduate studies in Systems Engineering (Desirable)

Essential Experience

  • Proven experience in Systems Engineering lifecycle management (10+ years) including; Requirements, Design, Integration and Verification and Validation
  • Proven experience in the development of products and projects in a variety of methodologies, with a particular focus on iterative/agile development
  • Proven experience (5+ years) in managing and coaching staff
  • Demonstrated ability to achieve effective outcomes in a multidiscipline, multi-culture environment
  • Experience with Safety, Security and Human Factors standards and practices
  • Experience with Infrastructure design processes
  • Experience with Network design and deployment processes
  • Ability to develop and promote high performing teams
  • Develop and foster a culture of continuous improvement
  • Coaching and sharing of his/her know-how
  • Ability to engage senior stakeholders having different objectives
  • Accountability, transparency and curiosity
  • A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
  • An ability to successfully manage change
  • Comfort in facing and managing complexity
  • Sound judgement and independent decision-making capability where necessary
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

Desirable:

  • Good knowledge of Air Traffic Management systems

General / Special Requirements

  • Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales' key values.
  • An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
  • An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
  • An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
  • Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimizing accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practices at all times.
  • Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Occasional international travel may be required

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. Great journeys start here, apply now!

Top Skills

Agile
Infrastructure
Network Design
Safety Standards
Security Standards
Systems Engineering
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The Company
Montreal, , Quebec
361 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1944

What We Do

Fednav Limited, the largest Canadian international dry bulk shipping group and leader in the Arctic and Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway.
Founded in 1944, we conduct business worldwide with approximately 100 ships trading worldwide.

Fednav also operates a network of specialized subsidiaries
- FALLine (Fednav Atlantic Lakes Line), offering a regular general cargo liner service from Europe to ports along the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system for over 60 years.
- FMT (Federal Marine Terminals), operating multiple stevedoring facilities in the US East Coast and Gulf Coast and in the Great Lakes. A leader in the industry, FMT handles breakbulk, bulk, containerized, project, and general cargoes for its clients. The wide range of commodities handled includes cement, cocoa, containers, gypsum, machinery, steel, sugar, wood pulp and forest products.
- Fednav Direct, our logistics services offering value-added on-carriage services, inventory management, and 24/7 inland transportation of cargoes

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