Building a future of trust together

Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three business 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 programs, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

On a cutting-edge Bordeaux Campus, between ocean and vineyards, we design and develop systems, equipment, and services to ensure the success of our clients' airborne missions.

As a Support Engineering Team Leader (M/F), you will join the Support Engineering & Service department of the Client Support and Services (CSS) Directorate. This department manages service engineering activities throughout the equipment/system lifecycle, including logistics support analysis, technical user documentation, client training, and reliability, maintainability, and safety studies. In this role, you will lead a team of 8 specialists providing technical support to aeronautical offers and projects (Radars, Military Avionics – Rafale, M2000, drones, etc.). Faced with growing activities and the requirements of new contracts and standards, as well as the integration of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, you will contribute to adapting skills and processes, supporting this strategic evolution.

Missions:

• Hierarchically manage the team: business organization, team cohesion, service meetings, employee development, workload/capacity adequacy, capitalization, etc.),
• Guarantee the team's performance and associated KPIs (Quality/Cost/Deadlines),
• Coordinate support and interface with CSS offers & projects and/or initial assembly via ILS Managers,
• Support the deployment of evolutions in methods & tool-based processes,
• Develop the structural subcontracting axis and materialize offshoring opportunities,
• Lead and deploy progress initiatives for the business discipline (ASL and Documentation referent roadmap, Unfunded Studies, Product Plan, etc.), ensure their technical and financial monitoring, and associated reporting.

Occasional travel to the Thales Brest site is expected.

Your profile

Does your leadership allow you to unite multidisciplinary teams around common objectives by enthusiastically facilitating constructive exchanges to advance projects?

Are you motivated by the coordination and piloting of transformation plans and capable of supporting change by mobilizing talents and ensuring clear and effective communication?

Do you want to take on the challenge of leading team dynamics while piloting strategic evolutions, integrating skills and processes to ensure operational excellence?

You hold a Bac+5 degree from a general engineering school or equivalent and have experience in:

• Hierarchical management and transversal coordination of multidisciplinary teams,
• Experience in Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) and In-Service Support (ISS) professions, as well as support engineering professions (Logistics Support Analysis, Documentation, Initial Provisioning List),
• Ideally, knowledge of ASD standards, particularly S1000D, S2000M, S3000L, ideally applied to electronic equipment (radars and/or avionics),
• English.

Are excellent interpersonal skills, autonomy, rigor, and synthesis and analysis skills qualities you are recognized for?

Then this position is for you!

A word from the team

Join a committed and dynamic team where your leadership and expertise will make a difference in ambitious technological projects. You will evolve in a stimulating environment, conducive to innovation and collaboration, alongside passionate professionals ready to collectively meet tomorrow's challenges!

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 relating 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.