Technical Data Manager

Cailabs; Rennes; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team bonding events

Employer-paid health insurance

Bonus scheme

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Cailabs is seeking a Data Management Specialist to join its team in Rennes. You will manage and structure product data across ERP, BOMs, and PLM systems, ensuring data reliability through product evolution and cross-functional collaboration.

You will work on items spanning mechanics, electronics, and optics, update bills of materials, and participate in change management to guarantee robust data across the industrial chain.

Qualifications

• Technical degree (Bac+2 or equivalent) with several years’ experience in an industrial environment.
• ERP experience: creating and modifying item master data, BOMs, and managing item master databases.
• Experience with a PLM tool or another Product Lifecycle Management system.
• Good understanding of EBOM and MBOM relationships.
• Strong rigor, organisation, responsiveness, autonomy and critical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Data management and creation: analyse requests, create items in the ERP system, structure data per business rules.
• Data reliability and updates: maintain the item database during product evolution and identify/in fix inconsistencies.
• Management of industrial file changes: participate in change management, update BOMs and related objects, ensure consistency across versions.
• Collaborate with engineering, methods and production teams to secure data flows and improve data practices.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Autonomy

Critical thinking

Education

Technical degree (Bac+2 or equivalent)

Tools

ERP system

PLM tool

BOM management

MBOM/EBOM knowledge

Job description

The company

Founded in 2013, Cailabs designs, manufactures, and develops innovative photonic solutions for the space, industry, telecommunications, and defense sectors. A global specialist in laser shaping, the company has accelerated its growth in the space field with turnkey optical ground stations that integrate atmospheric turbulence compensation technology. This makes it one of the first companies to harness very high data rates enabled by optics in a commercial ground station.

Cailabs currently has more than 200 employees, including 41PhDs. With 29 patent families filed, the company is one of the most innovative companies in France. It is headquartered in Rennes, with offices in Paris and Washington (USA).

Post description

At the interface between engineering, methods, and production, technical data management plays a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of the entire industrial chain.

In a rapidly evolving industrial environment, where each product is unique and continuously improved, the reliability of technical data is a critical challenge.

At Cailabs, this role goes far beyond simply creating items in an ERP system. It is about ensuring the reliability, structuring, and ongoing management of all product data, at the heart of interactions between engineering, methods, and production.

Supporting the existing team, you will work on complex products at the crossroads of mechanics, electronics, and optics, with a clear objective: to guarantee the consistency and robustness of the data that drives the entire industrial chain.

Your impact is direct: accurate data means a more reliable supply chain and production process.

Your responsibilities

Data management and creation

• Analyse coding and item creation requests


• Create items in the ERP system in compliance with configuration rules


• Structure data according to business needs

Data reliability and updates

• Maintain the item database in a context of product evolution


• Identify inconsistencies and correct them


• Contribute to improving overall data quality

Management of industrial file changes

• Participate in regular change management sessions


• Update bills of materials and associated objects


• Ensure consistency across different product versions

You will work in an environment with a high volume of daily coding activities.

You will work closely with cross-functional technical and business teams.

Your role is not limited to execution: you will analyse requests, define the appropriate item parameter settings in line with business rules, and challenge inputs when information is incomplete or inconsistent.

You will contribute to standardising and improving practices and securing data flows.

Profile required

• Technical degree (Bac+2 or equivalent)** with several years of experience in an industrial environment, ideally in mechanical, electronic, optical, or related fields.


• ERP experience, including:

• -Creating and modifying item master data, including the management of several dozen fields within item records


• -Managing and maintaining item master databases


• -Creating and modifying Bills of Materials (BOMs)


• -Creating and modifying manufacturing routings

• Experience with a PLM tool or another Product Lifecycle Management system.


• Good understanding of the relationship between EBOM (Engineering Bill of Materials) and MBOM (Manufacturing Bill of Materials).

Essential skills for success in this role

• Rigor and attention to detail


• Strong organisational skills and structured working methods


• Responsiveness, agility, and autonomy


• Critical thinking and ability to challenge information when needed

Benefits

• Regular opportunities for team bonding and social events (annual seminar, team lunches, group games, sports activities, etc.);


• 100% employer-covered health insurance;


• A bonus scheme rewarding both collective and individual performance;


• Joining Cailabs also means having the assurance that everything will be put in place to help you perform, grow, and take on new challenges.

Required languages

• English - Level advanced