Quality Assurance Bids - Torino

Product Assurance responsible in advance projects and Bids in Torino for DESI

The candidate is part of a Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space, a global space manufacturer delivering high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Our customers are governments, institutions, space agencies and telecommunications operators. We enable Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Overview

Mission and responsibilities

Mission : to implement the quality assurance dispositions ensuring the customer satisfaction for bids and product development and the achievement of TAS programmatic, economical and quality objectives.

• Ensure the Quality of Bids and define the Quality Assurance of the offer with the contribution of project, product, supplier and engineering quality assurance.
• Assure that all the conditions to create a winning bid, in the given timeframe, are met and give confidence on the maturity and quality of the delivered proposal, and on Customer satisfaction.
• Assuring that the bids and solutions provided to customers (external or internal) meet their requirements and expectations
• Help operational disciplines to increase their maturity
• Contribute to the framing of the bid, the tailoring of the bid baseline, verify the involvement of all stakeholders and assure the implementation of clear governance rules
• Evaluate the bid preparation, assure that all critical steps, decisions and actions have been executed before each decision milestone, including actions to mitigate risks and seize opportunities

Key responsibilities/outputs

• Ensure the quality of Bids for TAS :
• • Participate in bid reviews, be a member of the DVA process and of the offer documentation validation;
  • Contribute to the risks and opportunities management;
  • Assure that all critical steps have been executed before each decision milestone;
  • Ensure the conformity of the solutions with all contractual requirements;
  • Escalate the duty of alerts to the appropriate level of management and exercise the right of veto when necessary;
  • Lead the definition and application of a Bids Lessons Learned;
  • Define the Quality Assurance part of the offer;
  • Establish, for multi-entity or international bids, a quality network with clear authority and coordination rules.

• Ensure the quality of advance project for TAS :

• Ensure the Quality interfaces with the customer, TAS-JV and partners.
• Coordinate PA managers of all members of the consortium and ensure customer PA focal point.
• Analyze customer PA requirements and decline them
• Manage the PA tasks, Drive the TAS Quality experts activities (Dependability, Safety, Radiations, EEE, M&P, SW) & Guarantee the implication of “Senior Company Experts” on critical topics.
• Support all project management and engineering disciplines.
• Support for Risk Analysis & approve the development and qualification approach.
• Support the system trade-offs.
• Contribute to the TRL evaluation of equipment and technologies, and review the progress of pre-developments.
• Identify a preliminary list of critical items and approve of the Technology Development Plans.
• Participate in the evaluation of potential suppliers(SOW, specifications and proposal analysis).
• Review and approved delivered project documentation.

The candidate profile

The candidate must have significant experience of Bid or project/product management.

The candidate must have in-depth experience in complex space projects, in quality assurance management is a plus.

Other skills include:

• Ability to connect, network and cooperate at all levels of the organisation (TAS, Quality community, group level)
• Enables others to maintain perspective in difficult circumstances, without passing on stress
• Strong communication skills, ability to impact, convince and negotiate
• Ability to handles conflictual situations sensitively and constructively
• Open minded, quick learner, Creative, problem solver
• Hands-on, pragmatic
• Positive attitude

Languages:

• Fluent English, French or Italian are a plus.

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. Great journeys start here, apply now!

Summary

• Location: Torino
• Type: Full time