Experienced Project Management Officer (PMO) - Engineering Development Projects - M/F

The Project Management Officer (PMO) integrates the Airborne Connectivity Products and Solutions (CAP) sector, focusing on engineering development projects. As a core team member, the PMO ensures project management expertise in compliance with Thales standards. Responsibilities include participating in the transition from bid to program phase, managing budget allocation, implementing planning techniques like PERT, MSP, and Earned Value, tracking progress, analyzing deviations, challenging cost/planning/deadline consistency, updating Primavera, preparing financial reviews, managing documentation, and overseeing risks and opportunities.

Must Have

• Participate in the transition from the Bid phase to the program phase (structuring, WBS, planning of human and non-human resources and milestones).
• Ensure the proper allocation of budgets and work packages in coordination with management control and the project manager.
• Implement PERT, MSP, and Earned Value planning techniques and tools.
• Collect monthly progress information for work packages, analyze deviations, and propose action plans.
• Challenge the consistency of cost / planning / deadlines and consolidate the remaining work for the project.
• Update the Workload Plan, the main milestones, and Earned Value in Primavera.
• Be responsible for preparing and holding project financial reviews with Management.
• Implement document management.
• Manage and challenge data in the Risks & Opportunities register.
• Contribute to the production of useful data for various reports.
• Throughout the project, ensure the consistency and relevance of the project's reference data.
• At least 8 years of successful experience in engineering development project management/leadership.
• Proficiency in development project management tools (MSProject, Primavera, PMBI, GIRO, JIRA) and Microsoft Suite tools.

Good to Have

• Strong coordination skills
• Service-oriented mindset
• Good interpersonal skills
• Sense of diplomacy
• Autonomy
• Rigor
• Analytical mind
• Ability to work in a complex team environment
• Control, analysis, and alert capabilities

Perks & Benefits

• Success driven by technological excellence, experience, and shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training programs, internal academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects 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 business sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & 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 programs, internal academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

The Gennevilliers Campus is the heart of design, development, and support activities for major defense systems: radio communications, resilient infrastructure networks and systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is quickly accessible by public transport.

You will join the Airborne Connectivity Products and Solutions (CAP) sector as a Project Management Officer (PMO) on engineering development projects.

As a member of the project's Core Team, you will provide expert project management in accordance with the Thales framework.

More specifically, you will:

• Participate in the transition from the Bid phase to the program phase (structuring, WBS, planning of human and non-human resources and milestones),
• Ensure the proper allocation of budgets and work packages in coordination with management control and the project manager,
• Implement PERT, MSP, and Earned Value planning techniques and tools,
• Collect monthly progress information for work packages, analyze deviations, and propose action plans,
• Challenge the consistency of cost / planning / deadlines and consolidate the remaining work for the project,
• Update the Workload Plan, the main milestones, and Earned Value in Primavera,
• Be responsible for preparing and holding project financial reviews with Management,
• Implement document management,
• Manage and challenge data in the Risks & Opportunities register,
• Contribute to the production of useful data for various reports,
• Throughout the project, you will ensure the consistency and relevance of the project's reference data.

Your profile

• Are you an Engineer or Business School graduate with at least 8 years of successful experience in engineering development project management/leadership?
• Are you proficient in development project management tools (MSProject, Primavera, PMBI, GIRO, JIRA) and Microsoft Suite tools?
• Do your peers recognize your strong coordination skills, your service-oriented mindset, your interpersonal skills, and your sense of diplomacy?
• Are your autonomy, rigor, analytical mind, and ability to work in a complex team environment characteristic of you?
• Your control, analysis, and alert capabilities are essential for this position.

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!

As the position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy, the selected person will undergo a security clearance 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.