System Development Engineering Manager M/F

As a System Development Engineering Manager at Thales in Elancourt, France, you will lead and coordinate system engineering activities for a defined optronic product within the Air Optronics Development Directorate. Your main missions include overseeing design, development, validation, and qualification, managing resources, liaising with internal and external partners, and ensuring project objectives are met within deadlines, cost, and quality standards. You will also maintain project documentation and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Must Have

• Pilot and coordinate System Engineering activities: design, development, validation, and qualification
• Identify required resources and skills to complete tasks and meet milestones
• Ensure interface with internal and external partners
• Meet departmental objectives regarding deadlines, costs, and quality
• Maintain project repository and provide regular technical and financial reporting
• Deploy engineering initiatives and contribute to continuous improvement

Good to Have

• Proactive
• Ability to motivate and work in a team
• Analytical and synthetic mind
• Proactive and decision-making skills

Perks & Benefits

• Success driven by technological excellence, experience, and shared ambition
• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training courses, internal academies and 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, internal academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

At the heart of Saint Quentin en Yvelines, the Elancourt site is one of Thales's most important technological centers of excellence. The diversity and technicality of the systems and equipment mobilize expertise in more than 80 professions in defense, high-tech security, and digital services solutions.

Within the Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME) entity, you will join the Air Optronics Development Directorate (DDAO) of the Air Optronics Sector (SAO), whose scope covers all product development and production programs for the French and Export markets.

As a System Engineering Work Package Manager for a defined product, your main missions are:

• To pilot and coordinate System Engineering activities: design, development, validation, and qualification
• To identify the resources and skills required to carry out the work and meet milestones
• To ensure the interface with internal and external partners
• To meet the department's objectives by respecting deadlines, costs, and quality
• To maintain the project repository and ensure regular reporting on technical and financial aspects
• To deploy engineering initiatives and contribute to continuous improvement

Your profile

A graduate of higher education, you have at least 10 years of experience, particularly in the following skills:

• Management of engineering activities on complex systems: system, sub-assembly, and specialties
• Optimization and monitoring of a development strategy while taking into account needs and constraints
• Optronic knowledge: optics, electronics, servomechanisms, mechanical imaging
• Knowledge of configuration management rules

Are you recognized for being proactive, having the ability to motivate and work in a team, an analytical and synthetic mind, being proactive, and having decision-making skills?

Then this position is for you!

A WORD FROM THE TEAM

You will join an experienced team – approximately 12 people – which manages projects for multiple clients/countries around an optronic product mounted on the RAFALE, enabling threat detection.

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.