Product Design Authority – Mobility System
Thales
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: La Ferté-Saint-Aubin • 🇫🇷 France
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Actively participate in product tender responses; prepare for and attend stage-gate reviews
- Issue the DVA to frame the technical solution by identifying risks and opportunities, as well as schedule constraints prior to costing
- Translate the PLA product policy into contractual projects
- Serve as the technical interface with the client by defining appropriate solutions
- Ensure QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) performance objectives are met throughout the product lifecycle
- Advise the PLA on product policy and roadmaps
- Make trade-offs between acquisition cost and total cost of ownership
- Ensure industrial feasibility, including industrialization and obsolescence management
Requirements
- Significant experience in defense and/or aerospace, with mobility systems and C2 (Command & Control)
- Knowledge of VTS-FR products and their operational use cases
- Experience with model-based development, simulation, IVVQ (Integration, Verification, Validation, Qualification), RAMST (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety & Test), and pyrotechnics
- Professional working proficiency in English; autonomy; proactive mindset; ability to work in cross-functional teams beyond formal hierarchies; strong customer orientation
Benefits
- Attractive compensation package
- Continuous skills development: training paths, academies, and internal communities
- Inclusive, supportive environment that respects employees’ work–life balance
- Recognized social and environmental commitment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
model-based developmentsimulationIVVQRAMSTpyrotechnics
Soft skills
autonomyproactive mindsetability to work in cross-functional teamsstrong customer orientation