Work Package Manager

About Thales

Thales is a global leader in high technology, 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 annually 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, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, supportive environment that respects employee work-life balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities, aerospace, defense, civil, etc. West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services to reconcile professional and personal life.

Your daily life

Within Thales, you will join engineering teams involved in the development of complex systems for the defense and high-tech sectors. You will work in a multidisciplinary environment bringing together systems engineering, electronics, software, mechanics, IVVQ, and industrialization.

As an experienced Work Package Manager, you will lead one or more engineering work packages within a project or product line, ensuring technical, schedule, and financial commitments are met.

You will:

• Plan and manage the technical, schedule, and budgetary progress of work packages
• Coordinate the production of deliverables and lead development reviews
• Manage risks, technical facts, and problem-solving
• Ensure the conformity of work with client requirements
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and co-engineering activities
• Report to the Project Manager and functional managers

Your profile

Do you want to lead engineering work packages on complex and innovative systems? Is your priority to ensure commitments in terms of costs, deadlines, and performance? Do you have the ambition to lead multidisciplinary technical teams in a demanding environment? Do you want to contribute to projects combining electronics, software, mechanics, and embedded systems? Do you have an engineering degree or equivalent (Bac+5) and significant experience in:

• Leading work packages or complex systems projects
• Developing industrial products (defense, aeronautics, or equivalent)
• Monitoring qualification and validation tests
• Transverse management and multi-trade/subcontractor coordination

Do leadership, interpersonal skills, organizational skills, analytical ability, and a global project vision describe you?

Then this position is for you!

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

As the position may require access to information classified as national defense secret, the selected candidate will undergo a vetting procedure in accordance with the provisions of Articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the French Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.