Obsolescence Manager

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services. UK Services is a holistic life cycle process through which the combination of management and engineering actions necessary to assure effective and economical through-life support of a system or capability are accomplished as an integral part of the acquisition process. The Obsolescence Management function within UK Services has cross-domain responsibilities. Obsolescence Management activities are aimed at ensuring that Obsolescence is managed as an integral part of the whole product life cycle, in order to minimize the obsolescence risk and hence cost and detrimental impact. Based Crawley or Templecombe - Hybrid working arrangement: 3 days per week on site (based on full time hours ) Primary Purpose of the role Normally based on the Project Site, the primary purpose of the Obsolescence Manager Role is to: Manage the obsolescence activities to minimise risk to the Project(s) and to deliver coherent and relevant Obsolescence Plans and Reports on time, within budget and meeting quality standards. Interface between the Component ..... full job details .....