The Cannes site designs satellite systems and platforms, performs satellite assembly/integration/testing, and conducts in-orbit operations. The Surface Treatment / Paint Operator ensures surface treatment and painting operations for various mechanical parts across all production units (UAP1, UAP2, UAP3) and Satellite AITs. This role also involves adjusting and adding to ensure compliance of equipment. The operator is responsible for masking parts, setting up parts before surface treatment, cleaning parts, performing automatic or manual surface treatment and painting operations, adding products to balance baths, and maintaining workshop equipment and tools. Candidates should have a professional baccalaureate and similar experience in complex industrial environments like aeronautics, automotive, or space.

Must Have

• Masking parts
• Setting up parts before surface treatment
• Cleaning parts before operation
• Performing surface treatment operations (automatic or manual)
• Performing painting operations
• Adding products to balance baths (every 15 days)
• Maintaining workshop equipment and tools
• Knowing the processes used and signing updates to process instructions
• Respecting organizational standards of work areas
• Respecting procedures imposed by IFCA
• Avoiding human error by following procedures
• Being proactive, autonomous, and a source of proposals for preparation and operations
• Ensuring clear and complete inputs and working with qualified processes
• Cooperating effectively within and outside the team
• Communicating relevant information precisely for shift handovers
• Maintaining workshops including 5S (tidiness, first-level maintenance, tool improvement)

Perks & Benefits

• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development (training, academies, internal 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: 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, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

The Cannes site is responsible for the design of satellite systems & platforms, the assembly/integration/testing of satellites, as well as in-orbit operations. The site has expertise in optical instrumentation and avionics.

YOUR DAILY LIFE:

The surface treatment / paint operator performs surface treatment and painting operations for various mechanical parts for all Production Units (UAP1, UAP2, and UAP3) and Satellite AITs.

They are also responsible for ensuring adjustments and additions for the conformity of the means.

They are responsible for:

• Masking parts,
• Setting up parts before surface treatment,
• Cleaning parts before operation
• Surface treatment operation (automatic or manual)
• Painting operation
• Adding products to balance baths (every 15 days)
• Maintenance of workshop equipment and tools

YOUR PROFILE:

Do you hold a professional baccalaureate and have similar experience in a complex industrial environment (aeronautics, automotive, space)?

As a surface treatment / paint operator, you must:

• Know the processes used (in particular, read and sign updates to our process instructions).
• Respect the organizational standards of the different work areas.
• Respect the procedures imposed by IFCA: no improvisation during the execution of our activities (No human error due to unfollowed procedure or overconfidence)
• Know your strengths and areas for improvement, and question yourself with an open mind
• Train regularly to develop skills, become more autonomous and more versatile.
• Be proactive, autonomous, and a source of proposals for preparation and operations.
• Do everything possible not to produce errors: obtain clear and complete inputs, work with qualified processes and validated methods, work calmly in good conditions.
• Cooperate effectively within and outside your team
• Promote teamwork and mobilize with the entire team in key moments (team = everyone depends on others).
• Communicate relevant information precisely to those continuing activities in the next shift formally (Handover implementation)
• Contribute to creating a climate of trust and mutual respect (trust = communication + transparency) from the group to our clients, including all our interfaces.
• Be aware of the impact of your actions on others.
• Support the transformation of our processes and professions to be ever more competitive.
• Have a critical eye on our activities in the room, on our layout and generally on all potential malfunctions.
• Maintain workshops including 5S: tidiness, first-level maintenance, tool improvement.
• Participation in optimizing the performance of UAP 1 (i.e., performance from definition release to product delivery).

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