Lean & Performance Coach (m/f) (m/f)

Location: La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, France

Let's build a future of trust together Thales is a world leader in high technologies 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 4.5 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key areas of innovation such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 85,000 employees in 65 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, academies, and internal communities

• An inclusive, caring environment that respects employee work-life 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 armament systems (mortars, munitions, rockets...), force protection systems, and zone control. With its 450 employees, including 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 electronics and precision mechanics expertise and thus become one of the world leaders in the field of ammunition rockets. This Joint-Venture is also present at the La Ferté Saint Aubin site.

In the context of strong growth in industrial activities, operational teams need sustained support to help them achieve the performance they are capable of.

You will join the Performance team, within the Operations Department of the VTS FR domain, in charge of monitoring operational teams.

Your missions:

• Build and drive the LEAN roadmap for the lines,
• Coach operational employees and managers,

• Support the lines in implementing fundamentals and deploying the Continuous Pull Smoothed Flow,
• Be the guarantor of training and awareness of Lean management principles,

• Manage the maturity increase of the Kaizen approach and problem solving (INCIGHT approach)
• Drive lean projects.

Your profile

You have a Master's degree (Bac+5) specialized in lean manufacturing and have approximately 5 years of experience in:

• Continuous pull smoothed flow principles,
• Problem-solving tools and methods,

• Implementation and management of Kanbans.
• Is your adaptability, autonomy, reactivity, and ability to unite/transmit recognized assets?

• You are able to work in English

Have you demonstrated your ability to drive projects in a complex and transforming environment? Are you recognized for your autonomy, organization, rigor, and commitment, your initiative-taking, your multi-entity and multi-skill cooperation, your ability to transmit and communicate, as well as for the keen interest you have in digital methods and tools? Have you led a multidisciplinary team and obtained tangible and lasting results? Have you supported teams through significant changes? Is your curiosity, innovation, sense of observation, and project management knowledge a strength?