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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Hardware Radar Project Service Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLimours, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in hardware development engineering offices subject to severe constraints, such as defense, aeronautics, transportation, or automotive.
  • Experience managing teams hierarchically and cross-functionally.
  • Mastery of engineering-office activities across the full lifecycle: preliminary studies, specification, preliminary and detailed design, integration and validation, series production, and customer support.
  • Mastery of mechanical engineering disciplines, including structures, geared motors and control systems, thermal conditioning, and hydraulics, with good knowledge of electrical engineering.
  • Mastery of project-axis management.
  • Hierarchical management skills to support teams and develop their skills.
  • Relational skills to lead change and interact structurally with project teams, industry, industrial partners, and support teams.
  • Ability to engage and develop teams in continuous-improvement initiatives and to identify, promote, and implement technical, technological, and methodological breakthroughs.
  • Knowledge of construction technologies and industrial processes.
  • Ability to work confidently and flexibly with theoretical fundamentals and their practical applications.
  • Proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to defining the project organization, including the work breakdown structure and organizational breakdown structure.
  • Propose and obtain approval for the development model for each hardware subsystem, including internal or external development, supplier selection contributions, and definition of responsibility scopes.
  • Identify, promote, and implement new development methods to optimize development cycles, including multiphysics modeling and test-cone optimization.
  • Identify, promote, and implement innovative and competitive technical and technological solutions to optimize size, weight, power, and cost parameters.
  • Ensure industrial and logistical constraints are considered in project development, including industrialization, a definition dossier robust to supply-chain changes, testability, and maintainability.
  • Ensure the project's technical, schedule, and financial objectives are met.
  • Lead changes to methodologies, including breakthrough changes and continuous improvement.
  • Manage workload and resource alignment across the entire project scope, including internal resources, resources from other Thales entities, and contractors, and provide teams with support through coaching, training, and development.
  • Identify, anticipate, and address critical issues that could affect project objectives, and provide support and expertise for technical problems, including root-cause identification and solution proposals.
  • Ensure subsystem development is completed at the appropriate maturity level and that milestones are passed in accordance with company standards.
  • Prepare industrialization and series-launch phases with industrial teams.
  • Update and manage a product-maturity roadmap for anticipating and addressing obsolescence, functional improvement, industrial improvement, and supply-chain changes.
  • Manage additional development associated with these changes or customer-customization needs.
  • Provide support and expertise for technical issues arising in production or at customer sites, and organize their resolution.
  • Promote and implement project-management methods and tools suited to the activity cadence, including AIC routines and visual management.

Desired Qualifications

  • A generalist engineering degree, ideally with a mechanical engineering focus.

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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