Engineering Work Package Manager - F/H
Job Description
- Proven experience in coordinating various technical engineering activities (hardware, firmware, software)
- Ability to plan, organize teams, and ensure follow-up of engineering projects
- Good knowledge of subcontract management and work packages
- Ability to produce synthetic reports and comfortable with complex problem-solving
- 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
- A recognized societal and environmental commitment
Build a future of trust together
Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three business sectors: 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
- A recognized societal and environmental commitment
Your daily life
Between Nantes and Angers, close to the Atlantic coast, our Cholet site, predominantly R&D with a strong industrial footprint, specializes in defense radio communications, satellite communication systems, and cybersecurity solutions.
By joining the Hardware & Software Technologies, Tools & Engineering Competence Center teams, you will take responsibility for a multi-disciplinary development work package (hardware, firmware, software) and ensure that commitments are met in terms of quality, cost, and deadlines. As an Engineering Work Package Manager, your main missions consist of:
- Organizing and planning a work package by drafting its description, identifying deliverables, milestones, resources, and risks.
- Establishing estimates based on a viable solution and consistent with the project schedule.
- Defining the cost structure, supplier selection, and relevant indicators.
- Executing the work package, identifying and resolving problems, managing risks and opportunities.
- Monitoring and controlling all work.
- Ensuring the quality of products and delivered documentation.
- Managing the team and/or suppliers involved in the execution of the work package and ensuring compliance with all commitments.
- Consolidating feedback and closing the work package.
Your profile
Are you from an engineering background or equivalent, with proven experience in coordinating various technical engineering activities (hardware, firmware, software)?
Are you recognized for your abilities to plan, organize teams, and ensure the follow-up of engineering projects?
Do you have good knowledge of subcontract management and work packages?
Are you able to produce synthetic reports and are you comfortable with complex problem-solving?
Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!
The position may require access to information relating to national defense secrecy; the selected person will be subject to an authorization procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.
