Versatile Test Technician in Pyrotechnic Environment - M/F

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Thales is a global leader in high technology specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & 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 skill development: training courses, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Within the Vehicles and Tactical Systems activity, the La Ferté Saint Aubin site specializes in the production of land and airborne weapon systems (mortars, ammunition, rockets, etc.), force protection systems, and zone control. With its 450 employees, engineers, technicians, and specialized workers, the La Ferté Saint Aubin site ensures research and development, production, testing, as well as all the "support" functions necessary for the design of high-performance systems essential to the success of operational missions. Thales has formed, with the German defense group DIEHL, a Joint-Venture "JUNGHANS T2M" which has 165 employees, allowing the two companies to combine their electronic and precision mechanics skills and thus become one of the world leaders in the field of ammunition fuses. This Joint-Venture is also present on the La Ferté Saint Aubin site.

Within the engineering competence center and the EMCT (Tests Measurements, Firing Range) department of Thales on the La Ferté Saint Aubin site, we are looking for a versatile test technician in a pyrotechnic environment (M/F).

Activities on the firing range are varied and notably involve development tests for new products, performance and manufacturing validations of our products, acceptance firing, and finally the destruction of pyrotechnic waste (according to an adapted process).

Your versatility is appreciated, your curiosity important, and your rigor regarding procedures indispensable.

You will be integrated into a team of about fifteen people, and support for your skill development and autonomy will be implemented for the tests, in order to assist and then eventually take responsibility for a firing activity (mortar, cannon, detonating, acceptance, etc.).

By joining us, you will be entrusted with the following missions:

• Participate in the pyrotechnic tests of the department: Prepare positions and measurement systems according to the test configuration defined with the test requester, carry out tests and measurements with particular care for safety rules (priority on the firing range) and with a constant concern for the quality of test results;
• Be an actor in the Health, Safety, Environment policy deployed on the firing range and constantly ensure the safety of everyone and the security of the company.
• Participate in continuous improvement actions and skill development within the department.

Your profile

Do you have the ambition to use and develop your skills in the defense sector?

You have a BAC+2/3 level diploma specialized in mechanics and/or physical measurement, and have experience in:

• Pyrotechnics
• Adherence to current procedures
• Development and evolution of procedures, in compliance with quality and HSE rules
• Writing of reports and minutes with editing and analysis of measurement results
• Activity management (planning, resource allocation, cost and deadline definition and monitoring)
• Technical team management

Are your taste for teamwork, your curiosity, your ability to consult reference personnel, your sense of autonomy in the tasks assigned to you, your taste for fieldwork (outdoor tests), your attention to detail, recognized assets?

Then this position is for you!

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