Technical Project Manager - Defence - Geylang

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Operating at the forefront of aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

Together, we’re shaping the future by enabling customers to make pivotal decisions that safeguard communities and power progress.

The Opportunity:

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading the team to the completion of tasks within committed budgets, schedules, quality and performance for successful bids and projects delivery.

The activities includes:

• Managing assembled project teams, coordinating staffs and internal resources.
• Ensuring the project objectives in relation to cost, time and quality are achieved.
• Setting and managing customer’s expectations, develop detailed project plan, defining the scope of the project and managing the assignment of tasks to project team members.
• Managing relationships with customers and stakeholders. Maintaining lines of communication for updates and feedback with stakeholders and customers; provide timely update on project status to stakeholders and customers.

• Managing Bids and Projects in accordance with Thales internal guidelines ensuring it addresses the objectives of the business.
• Liaise closely and collaboratively with functional teams to ensure efficient delivery of projects. Particularly, coordinating with internal cross functional teams in order to maximize efficiency and ensure Projects outcomes meets the objectives.
• Acquiring and implementing knowledge about the business policies & practices, business intelligence tools, interact with contracts, finance, quality, PMO and other lines of business.
• Stakeholder management with the leadership support and help business track KPI’s/Focus areas for the year.
• Develop KPI’s and conduct analysis to provide early alert to the business of all significant emerging variances and risks. Develop and execute mitigation plans to counter variances and risks.
• Coordinating and negotiating input from partners and oversees subcontractors.
• Developing customer relationships by ensuring products and services delivered exceed where possible, customer expectations.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
• Assess and understand end-to-end process for better efficiencies and effectiveness and establish best practices.
• Manage risks, changes and impact analysis and identify key areas of improvement.
• End to end project deliverables & documentation, project control & success and handover to Services.
• Ensure engineering activities are well managed within constraints of bids/projects, approved architecture, design policy, contracts, and company quality requirements.
• Lead collaborative discussion and co-engineering between internal teams, vendors and customers to analyse, prioritise and validate stakeholders' requirements.
• Ensure that engineering scope, plans and activities satisfy customer requirements, and are delivered on time, on budget and with the required quality.
• Work closely with Design Authority to oversee and approve the outcome of evaluation studies on design alternatives, and to provide advice to both the customer and internal technical teams.
• Through broad consultation, ensure the production of the required documentation in support of the project, to the satisfaction of the customer and internal senior management.
• Liaise with customers on technical, architectural and procedural issues as required, ensure that scope creep is avoided.
• Define the engineering work breakdown structure, project organisation structure, tasks schedule, engineering KPIs, and associated engineering tasks. Tailor as required and ensure all baseline requirements are met.
• Define the strategy for development, build increments, validation, and project commissioning.
• Perform periodic reporting to internal senior management and customer according to Thales methodology (Chorus) and common methods such as SAFe/SCRUM.
• Ensure the implementation of multi-project synergies and lessons learnt, in order to optimize cost of technical solutions.
• Manage engineering risks & opportunities during bids and project phase, guarantees programme commitments, including those flown down to subcontractors and partners.
• Optimise technical work against costs, schedule and risks from design to validation and acceptance of the solution.

Essential Requirements:

• Degree qualified in computer science, information technology, engineering, project management or other suitable discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience.
• Experience working within a Systems Engineering lifecycle
• Proven and effective leadership with a high level of interpersonal and verbal communication skills as well as the ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams across geographies and time zones.
• Basic project finance understanding.
• Strong internal stakeholder management in a matrix organization.
• Strong customer focus and external relationship management.
• Good knowledge on how large projects are managed
• Strong motivation to be involved in all phases of a project life cycle, from bids to project completion

Desirable Requirements:

• Organized and analytical, adept at working in a team environment and able to handle multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated and comfortable in the dynamic atmosphere of a technical organization with a rapidly expanding customer base and new products
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Excellent collaborative and interpersonal skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities is essential
• Results-oriented, ability to work in autonomy, use own initiatives and willing to work in a dynamic structure
• Curious with an open and multicultural mindset
• Highly organized and responsive
• Proactive and positive “Can Do” attitude

At Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. Here, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self, thrive in a supportive culture, and love the work you do. Join us, and be part of a team reimagining technology to create solutions that truly make a difference – for a safer, greener, and more inclusive world.