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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Design Authority Deputy Manufacturing

Manufacturing EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBordeaux, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • BAC+5 education.
  • Excellent command of series production operations, gained through experience in different roles in electronic hardware production.
  • Knowledge of series production activities, including supply, manufacturing, and delivery.
  • Technical competencies across multiple disciplines, products, and hardware architectures.
  • Experience working in an international team.
  • Ability to facilitate and unite multiple professional groups, including in potentially conflictual relationships.
  • Sufficient knowledge of the business unit's hardware technologies and associated processes, including printed circuit boards and assemblies, metal and plastic packaging, additive manufacturing, display front ends, radio frequency, optics and gyrolasers, probes, microelectromechanical systems, system-in-package, and component packaging.
  • Knowledge of associated supply-chain, burn-in, test, and design-for-X strategies.
  • Knowledge of production tools used by key suppliers and company factories.
  • Ability to understand product-process constraints throughout each product lifecycle phase.
  • Ability to intervene from technology and manufacturing readiness reviews through problem-solving during development and production.
  • Ability to assess technical and industrial product-process risks and opportunities across the product lifecycle.
  • Ability to assess compliance, repeatability, production rate, and cost against internal and external commitments.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the ultimate technical authority for the Manufacturing domain within the FLX business line.
  • Ensure the validity of manufacturing and industrialization technical choices across the relevant scope.
  • Provide technical authority for industrial technologies, including assembly and testing, across all business-line teams and locations.
  • Ensure industrial choices remain valid throughout project and product lifecycles, from research and technology through in-service support, and ensure associated risks and opportunities are identified and characterized.
  • Provide business-line management with independent evaluation and expertise across technical activities in the domain.
  • Promote co-engineering in designs to improve competitiveness, including design for procurement, advanced product quality planning, design for test, design for manufacturing, design for supply chain, and design for service.
  • Ensure solutions meet industrial production objectives for schedule, cost, and quality.
  • Identify new technologies and areas of expertise.
  • Optimize the acquisition of new processes and contribute to their validation.
  • Maintain the appropriate expertise level in the business line by using existing professional networks, supporting progression in the expertise career path, and building that path with functional managers.
  • Represent Thales in national and international technical bodies and group-level bodies relevant to the domain, and communicate outcomes back to the professional communities.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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