Location: Gorgonzola, ItalyThales 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.
Thales people architect solutions that enable two-thirds of planes to take off and land safely. Our Ground Navigation portfolio offers a complete range of products which includes the latest generation of ILS, DME, VOR and TACAN systems. With more than 7,000 Navigation aids and landing systems installed worldwide in 172 countries, we are leading the Navaids market. The second product line of NAS is Non-Radar Surveillance (NRS) with an installed base of more than 2.200 ADS-B and MLAT ground stations.
We are currently looking for an Electrical 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 electrical and lighting protection solutions for our Navaids&NRS Systems
• Manage the full range of activities related to the electrical 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 electrical system that are manufacturable, maintainable, cost effective, re-usable.
Required Experience and Skills:
• Solid experience in electrical integration, interconnection between boards and cabling (Lighting protection systems is a plus)
• Draw up technical documents, metric calculations and quotations, and perform surveys, calculations and measurements
• Carry out tests and verification on the functionality of components
• Understand and verify the legislative documents, regulations and technical catalogues
• Knowledge of 3D/2D modelling tools (Autodesk is a plus)
• Experience in configuration management, knowledge of the steps to design, develop and maintain a new item or system.
• Experience in electrical design of defense products and knowledge of MILSTD regulations
• 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 electrical engineering with 3+ 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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