Project Manager

As a Project Manager at Thales Digital Solutions, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams including software developers, architects, product owners, designers, scientists, marketing, and business development to manage projects and programs of various scales. This role is primarily a facilitator and conductor for a portfolio of projects focused on a single area of expertise, ensuring a common vision between scientific and development activities, while integrating design vision and user needs into the solution. You will ensure every collaborator's voice is heard and has an impact on project goals.

Must Have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in project management
• Good command of spoken and written French
• Good command of spoken and written English
• Ability to accompany teams and clients to solve problems
• Commitment to creating valuable solutions for clients and the company
• Ability to promote opportunities and publicize managed projects
• Organizational skills
• Desire to learn and diversify
• Importance of sharing vision and information within the company
• Contribution to process improvement and participation in a project manager community
• Enjoy being at the heart of a multidisciplinary team and fostering innovation

Good to Have

• Proactivity and strong sense of organization
• Priority management and respect for deadlines
• Good team spirit
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Interest in cutting-edge technologies demonstrated by mastered knowledge in innovation domains
• PMP certification

Perks & Benefits

• Company-paid extended health, dental, and health spending account
• Life, AD&D, short-term disability, and travel insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with company contribution and match to DCPP (no vesting period)
• Company-paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave
• Voluntary life, AD&D, critical illness, long-term disability insurance
• Employee discounts on home and auto insurance

In fast-changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Within the group, Thales Digital Solutions (TDS) is a technological innovation hub supporting all sectors of activity, both in the local Canadian market and internationally. Join us to contribute to the development of mission critical solutions. Our various cutting-edge projects use our expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Human Factors, Collaborative Autonomous Systems, Optimization, Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity and Design.

About Thales & cortAIx, its AI acceleration and industrialization lab.

In fast-changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Within the group, Thales Digital Solutions (TDS) is a technological innovation hub supporting all sectors of activity, both in the local Canadian market and internationally. Join us to contribute to the development of mission critical solutions via multiple and varied cutting-edge projects using our expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Human Factors, Collaborative Autonomous Systems, Optimization, Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity and Design.

Recently launched, cortAIx is an AI accelerator designed to provide armed forces, aerospace manufacturers and critical infrastructure operators with secure, cutting-edge solutions that improve data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency. Designed for critical environments, cortAIx seamlessly integrates AI into systems that must meet the highest standards in cybersecurity, deployability and resource optimization, ensuring superior performance without compromise.

By working at Thales Digital Solutions...

• You have the choice between working in the office or from home.
• You join a company with a family spirit and social activities throughout the year (5* BBQs, Christmas parties, sports challenges, etc.).
• You join a “large team” (around a hundred employees at TDS) that shares values of transparency, direct relationships, and where mutual aid is essential!
• You have the opportunity to try and evolve in different roles to advance your career.
• You work on cool and innovative projects, interact internationally with passionate colleagues all over the world as well as with local ecosystems.

Job Summary

Being a Project Manager at Thales Digital Solutions,

Project management at Thales Digital Solutions is first and foremost a close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (developers/software architects, product owners (PO), designers, scientists, marketing, business development) to manage projects and/or programs of various scales.

Project management here is above all a role of facilitator and conductor for a portfolio of projects focused on the same area of expertise to ensure a common vision between scientific activities, development activities while ensuring that the design vision and user needs are known and integrated into the solution.

Our role as project manager is to ensure that each collaborator can be heard and have an impact on the projects and objectives to be achieved. The project manager here is an important part of the team to ensure the success of the projects.

As an organization, we believe in the agile philosophy and we do not hesitate to improve our ways of doing things. Our objective is to foster innovation on different research axes such as:

• Cybersecurity
• Analysis of human factors using sensory sensors to better support the operator in their critical tasks,
• The use of artificial intelligence to offer decision-making capabilities between different agents,
• Analysis of historical data combined with expert knowledge to make recommendations and support humans in understanding complex situations
• And many others.

Essential Functions

• You will be responsible, in collaboration with the head of innovation, engineering and research, for the roadmap and the overall vision of one or more project portfolios for which you will be in charge.
• You will ensure the alignment of the company's strategic, research and project objectives within the same project portfolio.
• You will facilitate workshops with the various stakeholders to ensure that everyone is moving in the same direction.
• You will supervise risk management and the implementation of appropriate mitigation measures.
• Always in collaboration with the various project stakeholders, you will establish and communicate the objectives, schedule, performance indicators, project expectations, work to be executed, milestones and project deliverables.
• You will act as a liaison between the various project stakeholders.
• You will coordinate the various responsible parties involved to ensure the success of the project.
• You will be responsible for planning and managing the workload of the team working on your project portfolio(s).
• You will master the terms and conditions as well as the project budget.
• You will manage the billing milestones associated with the project.

This position is for you if...

• You like to support teams and clients in solving problems.
• You are committed to creating solutions that have value for the client and the company.
• You like to foster opportunities and publicize the projects you manage.
• You define yourself as organized.
• You have a desire to learn and diversify.
• For you, sharing vision and information within the company is important.
• You like to contribute to the implementation of process improvements and participate in a project manager community.
• You like to be at the heart of a multidisciplinary team and foster innovation to set up tomorrow's projects...

Minimum Requirements:

What is absolutely necessary to apply...

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline;
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in project management or a strong desire to rely on significant past experience to enter a project manager role.

Desirable Qualification

And what is highly recommended to have to apply...

• Proactivity and a great sense of organization, priority management and respect for deadlines.
• Good team spirit, excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills;
• Interest in cutting-edge technologies demonstrated by mastered knowledge in our areas of innovation.
• Good command of spoken and written French and English.
• Teamwork skills.
• PMP certification an asset.

But since we are looking more for a personality - who has a desire to learn, who remains humble and open - than just skills... Then do not hesitate to contact us because we always have plenty of opportunities!

Thales offers an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including:

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
• Discounts on home and auto insurance.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List, the Canadian Industrial Security Program, and/or the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization including a Canadian Enhanced Reliability security clearance.