Free Form Production Unit Manager (m/f) (M/F)

Location: Aix-en-Provence, 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 innovation areas 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 balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life: By joining us in Aix-en-Provence, you will join a dynamic site bringing together our high-end space and industrial optics manufacturing activities, integrated into our customers' critical equipment.

YOUR DAILY LIFE

At the Thales SESO Optics site (Aix en Provence), within Production, the Optical Systems APU Manager is responsible for guaranteeing the unit's performance in terms of Quality/Costs/Deadlines. You will ensure the hierarchical management of a team of approximately 10 people to ensure the proper execution of integration, coating, and optical finishing (IBF) activities for Thales Seso products.

• You are the guarantor of the safety of personnel and all persons working in your production workshops
• You ensure compliance with the production plan to deliver to our customers (internal and external) within the expected deadlines and costs
• You contribute to production progress reporting and information traceability
• You manage and develop your team
• You are the conductor between your different teams: integration, treatment, and IBF
• You ensure collaboration between your department and those of engineering, industrialization, supply-chain, and other APUs. You analyze and improve production processes
• You are strongly field-oriented with an enhanced affinity for continuous improvement processes (5S, TPM, Visual Management, VSM, ...)
• You participate in monthly Quality Committees, audits, and ensure processes are respected

YOUR PROFILE

Are you a graduate of an Engineering School with more than 5 years of experience in industry, working with cutting-edge technologies? Do you like being close to the field and the teams? Do you have knowledge in the space domain? With a good level of English, do you know how to read manufacturing drawings and interpret manufacturing tolerances? Do you have knowledge of the standards and the overall technical aspects of the products manufactured? Are you able to prioritize and decide on relevant actions to guarantee your team's performance? Are you rigorous, methodical, and pay strong attention to high-precision achievements? Flexible, do you have team management skills: ability to listen and motivate, team management (human and workload planning) while respecting commitments made? Dynamic and autonomous, are you recognized for your spirit of initiative and synthesis? A good communicator, do you like to unite your teams to engage them for the long term? Do you have knowledge of continuous improvement tools?