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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Customer Technical Manager, Weapon Systems

Implementation & Technical Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLa Ferté-Saint-Aubin, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience in the defense and/or aerospace domain, with expertise in support engineering, particularly maintenance.
  • Good knowledge of technical maintenance practices.
  • Experience working closely with customers across support, training, and maintenance-in-operational-condition activities.
  • Proficiency in English.
  • Willingness to undertake missions in France and abroad at customer sites.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the technical point of contact for customers.
  • Handle customer and internal technical events and issues by analyzing them, preparing assessments, and defining action plans, with the primary goal of improving system and subsystem reliability.
  • Assess the complexity of requests and assign them to the appropriate personnel.
  • Coordinate technical contributors, including design engineering, subcontractors, development engineering, software, and technology specialists, to investigate product change and obsolescence matters.
  • Define immediate actions at customer sites to ensure system availability.
  • Participate in technical assignments at customer locations, including military bases and the French Directorate General of Armaments, and provide technical expertise.
  • Participate in technical meetings with customers.
  • Ensure applicable configuration changes are implemented on customer products and systems.
  • Prepare and deliver reporting to the organization's support program managers.
  • Provide technical support for spare-parts and repair activities, including difficult repairs and system expertise according to experience.
  • Provide technical support to technicians.
  • Apply the relevant processes, procedures, business rules, and tools to ensure efficient and effective work.
  • Propose and carry out continuous-improvement actions to improve competitiveness and develop the service's activities.
  • Maintain effective working relationships with industrialization, procurement, group service centers, and customers.

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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