System Project Manager (EDM) - Navigation Products and Data Links - M/F

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Thales is a global high-tech leader 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 Gennevilliers Campus is the heart of design, development, and support activities for major defense systems: radiocommunications, resilient network and infrastructure systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is easily accessible by public transport.

You will join the Radio Navigation Products and Data Links (PLN) laboratory, responsible for developing the MMR family of aircraft landing aid products, radio altimeters, as well as IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) systems. All these products are embedded on terrestrial, maritime, or airborne military and civil platforms for clients in France and for export.

The laboratory is involved throughout the product lifecycle, from upstream phases (Offers, product policy) to development, qualification, and industrialization phases. It also participates in commissioning and platform testing with clients and in production support.

As System Project Manager, you will:

• Drive System Engineering activities at the Solution level,
• Guarantee project commitments, including stakeholder requirement satisfaction under constraints provided by the Architect and the Project Design Authority,
• Define the system development cycle and adjust the engineering environment,
• Ensure overall consistency of engineering processes, practices, and tools,
• Organize co-engineering with other stakeholders (industry, service…),
• Approve engineering baselines (FBL, ABL, PBL) and engineering plans for lower-level elements or components,
• Optimize technical work by consolidating planning, risks and opportunities and by organizing engineering reviews from design to validation and and acceptance.

Your profile

• Engineer/Master's degree, do you have at least 5 years of experience in an equivalent position in aeronautical equipment development?
• Do you have good knowledge of the civil and military aeronautical context and equipment architectures?
• Do you have knowledge in Hyperfrequency, analog/digital electronics, signal and information processing, propagation and radio communications?
• Are your good adaptability, autonomy, rigor, and organization characteristic of you?
• Do you enjoy teamwork in a multi-project context and have a results-oriented mindset?

Then join us!

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 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.