Location: Gorgonzola, Italy

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Gorgonzola hosts Navigations Air Systems (NAS) domain. The activity of NAS domain: avionics, navigation and radar systems for civil air traffic and technologies supporting the activities of civilian and military pilots, ATC controllers and technicians of several airlines, air traffic control agencies and Air Force around the world. Italy is the Group’s Competence center for the design, production and delivery of Navigation Aids products and Competence Centre for the delivery of non-Radar Surveillance Products.

We are currently looking for an Electromechanical Engineer to join Thales Land
and Air Systems in its Navaids Center of Competence Gorgonzola (near Milan).

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
• Design, develop and optimize electro-mechanical solutions for our
Navaids&NRS Systems
• Manage the full range of activities related to the electro-mechanical design
and also focus on product structure on different product teams,
• Prepare the Design & Justification Files (D&JF) and design guidelines
• Guarantee adherence to in-scope standards, reuse policy and product
development plans

• Check and review the compliance with Thales Standards before upload them in the system, including the Product configuration activities connected with the
Engineering Change Notification management. Work in close collaboration with the hardware, configuration, purchase and industry to develop Mechanical items that are manufacturable, maintainable, cost effective, re-
usable.
 

Required Experience and Skills:
• Solid experience in electro-mechanical integration, interconnection between
boards, cabling and mechanics
• Solid experience with Structural analysis (static and dynamic loads)
• Solid experience with 3D modelling tools (Autodesk Inventor is a plus)
• Experience in configuration management, knowledge of the steps to design,
develop and maintain a new item or system.
• Experience in electro-mechanical design of defense products and solid
knowledge of MIL-STD regulations
• Capacity to delivers specification, reports in an effective and synthetic way.
• Ability to work in team in an international environment and to build and sustain
good working relationships with staff, peers and managers, customers and
other stakeholders.
• Flexibility needed to be integrated in the different stages of a project
• Technical leadership: Capacity to convince on technical concepts in verbal
and written forms across different management levels.
• Pro-activity to learn from mentors, digital learning and on job training,
 

Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in mechanical or electro-mechanical engineering with 5+
years’ experience
• English and Italian fluent is a must
• Ability to speak additional languages as German or French is a benefit
• The role will require travel for less than 10% of the time

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