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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Models and Performance Department Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeÉlancourt, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Scientific education from an engineering school or a doctorate, with more than 10 years of experience in radar, simulation, and validation.
  • Experience managing teams, including hierarchical management, skills development, activity and workload planning.
  • Technical expertise in radar, functional architecture design, and operational simulation.
  • Experience in radar simulation and modeling, including the radar and its environment.
  • Experience developing radar processing (detection and antenna processing) and associated logic, and defining verification strategies.
  • Experience managing teams and providing strong leadership.
  • Experience managing digital projects.
  • Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
  • Proficiency with collaborative tools such as Jira and Trello.
  • Experience with budget tracking and performance reporting.
  • Rigor, teamwork, proactivity, and problem-solving ability.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in defining and designing product models in alignment with shared functional architectures.
  • Consolidate test strategies and prepare performance dossiers to ensure product quality.
  • Manage the department, including hierarchical people management, recruitment, activity planning, and workload planning, including subcontracting, for consolidation at service level.
  • Support activity costing for proposals and track expenditures to consolidate cost models.
  • Facilitate technical exchanges with internal experts and develop the team's skills through expertise sharing and technical follow-up.
  • Coach and develop employees by sharing the discipline's vision and objectives, setting and evaluating goals, and guiding professional development.
  • Deploy the practices and tools needed to achieve the required maturity and satisfy project and product requirements.
  • Define a medium- and long-term skills anticipation plan, encourage knowledge sharing and awareness of the state of the art, and coordinate professional knowledge-capitalization activities.
  • Develop the discipline's strategic plan and associated objectives, as well as a technology and innovation strategy with the management team, including the Building Blocks strategy.
  • Identify and implement cross-project synergies to optimize the cost of technical solutions.

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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