EGSE System Engineer

Thales Alenia Space; Lombardia; On-site; EUR 41,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Room for personal development

Career mobility across domains and gé

Technical or leadership path

International career opportunities

Job summary

Thales Alenia Space is seeking an Engineering Work Package Management professional to organize, plan and control work packages across engineering projects. You will author WP descriptions, set schedules, manage risks and coordinate with suppliers, aiming for on-time, within-budget delivery and high-quality outcomes.

You will lead and develop teams, coordinate technical activities, and produce executive reports while fostering collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field with significant project management experience.
• Team-player who enjoys collaborative work (co-engineering).
• Self-motivated leader able to engage and develop teams through collaborative work and challenging approaches.
• Analytical, dynamic and autonomous.
• Effective communicator.
• Knowledge of subcontract and work package management.
• Experience coordinating technical activities.
• Ability to produce synthetic, high-quality reports.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to tackle hard problems.
• Familiar with bidding processes.

Responsibilities

• Author the Work Package Description with the WP team based on project structure and customer requirements.
• Identify deliverables, milestones and interdependencies.
• Establish schedule and estimates and identify required resources.
• Initialise risk and opportunity register and WP baseline; coordinate supplier commitments where applicable.
• Establish network diagrams and detailed schedules aligned with the master plan.
• Define cost structure, resource profiles and KPIs; write WP plans.
• Achieve WP objectives and manage deviations; mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities.
• Review documents, schedules and estimates; monitor and consolidate deliverables.
• Lead progress meetings; report variances to the PM and stakeholders.
• Ensure quality of deliverables; manage configuration items within WP scope.
• Lead stakeholders and input to project reviews; act as PM delegate to client or sub-contractor.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
• Conclude WP with data collation and closure review.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication

Risk management

Budget/finance

Bid management

Subcontract management

Planning

Work package management

Education

Master's degree in Engineering/Computer Science

Job description

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

CANDIDATES THAT WOULD IMPRESS US

• You graduated with a Master of Engineering, Computer Science or any relevant field in University, and you have significant experience in project management
• You appreciate to be a team-player and enjoy collaborative work (co-engineering)
• You are recognised as a self-motivated leader, willing to engage and develop your team using collaborative work and challenging approaches
• You are analytical, dynamic and autonomous
• You are an effective communicator

COMPETENCIES:

• You know how to use your skills to plan, organise teams, and guarantee the follow-up of engineering projects by respecting deadlines, costs and quality with a clear vision of risks and opportunities
• You have good knowledge of subcontract and work package management
• You have proven experience in coordination of various technical activities
• You know how to produce synthetic and quality reports
• You have outstanding problem-solving skills and a passion to solve hard problems
• You can demonstrate knowledge in financial, workload plan and risks management
• You are familiar with bidding process

LIFE AS A THALES ENGINEERING WORK PACKAGE MANAGEMENT ROLE

As an Engineering Work Package Management Role within Thales, you will be responsible for:

Work Package Organisation and Planning:

• Author the Work Package Description with the WP team based on the project structure regarding the entity/Customer requirements
• Identify deliverables, milestones and interdependencies with other WP’s
• Establish the schedule and the estimates based on a viable solution, and identify the necessary resources and their availability
• Initialise the risk and opportunity register and the work package baseline using the relevant key project tools
• Where applicable obtain commitments from suppliers

Work Package Launch:

• Establish a network diagram and a detailed schedule which is aligned with the project master schedule
• Define the cost structure, resource profiles, supplier selection and the relevant metrics to monitor the WP
• Write relevant plans within the WP scope

Work Package Execution:

• Achieve the objectives of the Work Package and take the necessary management actions to correct any deviation from the baseline or objectives
• Identifying and solving issues, managing the risks and opportunities and performing mitigation activities

Work Package Monitoring and Control:

• Review document, specifications, schedule and estimate files using peers where necessary
• Monitor & consolidate all deliverables
• Update the schedule, risk & opportunities register, the ETC & EAC
• Consolidate the work package dashboard and lead progress meetings
• Report as per the PMP and elevate to the PM any variances or key issues

Quality of Deliverables:

• The WPM is responsible for the quality of the delivered products, services and documentation within the project committed time and budget and in the scope of the work package
• The WPM ensures that all configuration items within the WP scope are managed (could be done by a configuration manager)

Key Stakeholder Relations:

• Lead the team and/or suppliers involved to perform the work package and ensures the respect of all commitments
• Participate and input to all relevant project reviews as specified in the PMP
• Act, where required, as PM delegate to the Client.
• Act, where required, as the Thales representative for sub-contracted work

Capture of Lessons Learned:

• The WPM must collect, analyse and synthesise the strengths and weaknesses during the performance of the work package, propose recommendations for improvement and record these as prescribed in the PMP

Work Package Closure:

• The WPM must ensure that all the commitments taken in his work package description sheet have been honoured by collating all WP data, costs and estimates, recording them and then organise a closure review

YOUR CAREER AT THALES

• Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:
• Room and attention to personal development
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

Type of contract: Permanent
Experience: 6 – 11 Years
CCNL Met/Ind – B3 Category
€ 41.424,25 - € 51.823,67
VC Target Rate up to 8%
CIPI up to 1.822€
Performance Bonus (PDR): up to 4.550€

At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales Alenia Space employing around 8,900 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth #SpaceForLife.