Series Product Manager M/F

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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 respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

As a center of excellence for aviation and optronic equipment support, Thales demonstrates its commitment to meeting legitimate requirements for the availability of airborne equipment, in addition to its historical activity of producing inertial units and gyrolasers. It is easily accessible from Paris, Tours, and Poitiers. You will thrive in a city rich in culture, green, and without traffic jams!

Within the Inertia and Actuators APRU, you will hold a position as Series Product Manager for a product family. The APRU's activity consists of producing and repairing accelerometers and gyrometers, inertial units, and actuators for civil and military aviation clients. The main technologies implemented on the products are: brazing, bonding, electronics, mechanics. Most assemblies are carried out under a binocular microscope.

The APRU, consisting of fifty people in production, support, and management, is experiencing strong growth across its entire product scope. Significant transformation challenges are linked to this growth.

As a pillar of the APRU, you are responsible for the quality and product performance in series life for a product family. You rely on the production and support teams (Design Authority, Technologists, Quality, Engineering) and work in collaboration with the Production Manager.

The missions are as follows:

• Pilot the quality level of products within your scope.
• Propose and manage improvement actions for robustness.
• In case of a problem, coordinate the various stakeholders to secure the client and conduct investigations.
• Support evolutions that may impact product performance vis-à-vis the client. These evolutions can be of several natures (suppliers, means, product, environment, digital).
• Ensure traceability and documentary compliance (definition file).

Your profile

Coming from an engineering background or equivalent in the industrial field, do you have the following experience:

• Confirmed experience in production and/or repair industry in technical reference (electronics, mechanics, optics) or support functions?
• Mastery of continuous improvement tools?
• Solid English skills?

Are you recognized for your proactivity, ability to lead, unite multidisciplinary teams, prioritize, and implement relevant actions to guarantee the industrial performance of products?

Then this position is for you!

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

The position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy; the selected person will be subject to 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.