Within the Vehicles and Tactical Systems activity, the La Ferté Saint Aubin site specializes in the production of land and airborne weapon systems. The role involves introducing design-to-cost and should-cost methodologies to ensure the competitiveness of offers and projects. The Cost Officer will challenge and support engineering teams in cost-objective design, optimize performance/cost with purchasing and suppliers, and enrich internal databases.

Must Have

• Introduce design-to-cost and should-cost methodologies to ensure competitiveness.
• Contribute to the Product convention (global challenge of RC costs and drivers).
• Challenge and support Engineering and Process Engineering teams in cost-objective design.
• Ensure optimum performance/cost with Purchasing and suppliers.
• Estimate purchased and subcontracted parts of products (Mechanical and Electronic).
• Enrich internal databases and develop tool-based processes.
• Engineer degree or equivalent.
• At least 8 years of experience in a mechanical design office.
• Master mechanical and electronic technologies.
• Master should cost and design to cost tools.
• Proficiency in English.
• Master CAD tools, especially CREO.
• Knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes (machining, foundry, welding, assembly).
• Rigor, results-orientation, ability to unite and drive change.
• Aptitude to argue and support suppliers and teams.

Good to Have

• Experience in industrialization or supplier relations.
• Notions of electronic board manufacturing methods.

Perks & Benefits

• Attractive compensation package.
• Continuous skills development (training, internal academies and communities).
• Inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance.
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment.

Let's build a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three sectors of activity: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition.
• An attractive compensation package.
• Continuous skills development: training courses, internal academies, and communities.
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance.
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment.

Your daily life

Within the Vehicles and Tactical Systems activity, the La Ferté Saint Aubin site specializes in the production of land and airborne weapon systems (mortars, ammunition, rockets, etc.), force protection systems, and zone control. With its 450 employees, engineers, technicians, and specialized workers, the La Ferté Saint Aubin site ensures research and development, production, testing, as well as all the "support" functions necessary for the design of high-performance systems essential to the success of operational missions. Thales has formed, with the German defense group DIEHL, a Joint-Venture "JUNGHANS T2M" which has 165 employees, allowing the two companies to combine their expertise in electronics and precision mechanics and thus become one of the world leaders in the field of ammunition fuses. This Joint-Venture is also present on the La Ferté Saint Aubin site.

The Vehicles and Land Systems domain is adding five new products to its product portfolio and reviewing the definition of existing products to meet the growing demand from armed forces – weapon systems and ammunition.

At the same time, the domain is professionalizing and introducing a should-cost expertise into its teams.

• You are responsible for introducing design-to-cost and should-cost methodologies to ensure the competitiveness of offers and projects.
• With product line architects and product architects, you contribute to the Product convention approach (global challenge of RC costs and drivers).
• You challenge and support the Engineering and Process Engineering teams in cost-objective design approaches.
• With Purchasing and suppliers, you ensure optimum performance/cost by estimating the purchased and subcontracted parts of products (Mechanical and Electronic).
• You enrich internal databases and ensure the development of tool-based processes.

Your profile

Is your priority to guarantee product competitiveness through cost control?

Do you have the ambition to support professionalization and innovation in the defense sector?

Do you want to discover and lead design-to-cost and should-cost methodologies in a demanding technical environment?

You have an engineering degree or equivalent and at least 8 years of experience in a mechanical design office, ideally with experience in industrialization or supplier relations. You master:

• Mechanical and electronic technologies,
• Should cost and design to cost tools,
• English,
• CAD tools, especially CREO.

You are familiar with industrial mechanical manufacturing processes (machining, foundry, welding, assembly) and ideally have notions of electronic board manufacturing methods. You have evolved in development, industrialization, or production contexts with a strong competitiveness challenge.

Your rigor, your results orientation, your ability to unite and drive change, as well as your aptitude to argue and support suppliers and teams are major assets.

Then this position is for you!

A word from the team

In an extraordinarily dynamic environment, you contribute to the success of the domain by helping to define and produce competitive equipment. This stepping stone position will allow you to pursue your career as an industrialization expert, design office expert, or as a manager of complex lots.