Engineering Tools Manager

Lieu : Herstal, Belgium Mission ------- Thales Belgium, Herstal site, is a world leader in **precision-guided rocket systems for helicopters and jet aircraft**. To support its ambitious production and product development roadmap, Thales is strengthening its Engineering organization with an **ENGINEERING Tools Manager** to accelerate digital transformation and support product development based on **Model-Based Design, V-cycle and iterative development methodologies**. As **Engineering Tools Manager**, you will be responsible for the **functional management of the Engineering tool landscape**, contributing to improving the quality, maturity and efficiency of Engineering processes and deliverables. You will act as the interface between **Engineering, IS/IT and Thales Engineering organizations**, ensuring that tools effectively support Engineering teams throughout the **product lifecycle**. Responsibilities ---------------- * **Understand Engineering needs:** develop a strong understanding of Engineering activities, **to transform into tools** and ways of working; identify, analyze and prioritize tool and digitalization requirements. * **Own the functional Engineering tool landscape:** define the tool roadmap, evaluate solutions, manage the lifecycle of tools and identify opportunities for improvement, standardization and rationalization. * **Configure and deploy tools:** translate Engineering requirements into functional configurations and ensure that tools effectively support user needs and existing Engineering practices. * **Support the product development lifecycle:** ensure that Engineering tools effectively support activities across requirements, architecture, design, development, integration, verification and validation. * **Support Engineering software tools:** contribute to the identification, deployment and improvement of tools used by Embedded Software teams, including solutions supporting software development, automated testing and CI/CD practices. * **Support different development approaches:** understand **Model-Based Design, V-cycle, Agile and iterative development methodologies** and ensure that the Engineering tool landscape is aligned with the corresponding ways of working. * **Drive adoption and user enablement:** act as the Engineering Tools focal point, provide user support, develop documentation and deliver training. * **Collaborate with IS/IT:** work closely with IS/IT, which provides and manages infrastructure, platforms and core IT services, while ENGINEERING Tools owns the **functional configuration, deployment, usage and user enablement** of Engineering tools. * **Collaborate across Thales:** work with Engineering teams from other sites and Group organizations to share best practices, promote standards and leverage common solutions. * **Drive continuous improvement:** identify opportunities to improve **tool usability, integration, automation and Engineering productivity** through the effective use of digital tools. Profile ------- * Master's degree in **Engineering, Computer Science, IT or a related technical field**. * Experience in an **R&D or **industrial Engineering environment****, ideally with experience managing, deploying or supporting Engineering tools and applications. * Strong understanding of **Engineering activities and product development processes**, with a genuine interest in understanding how products are designed, developed, integrated and validated. * Good understanding of the **product lifecycle and development methodologies**, including Model-Based Design, V-cycle, Agile and iterative approaches. * Ability to understand Engineering processes and translate **user and business needs into effective functional tool configurations and solutions**. * Strong interest in **digital tools and their practical application to improve Engineering efficiency, quality and maturity**. * Good **project management, analytical and problem-solving skills**. * Excellent **communication and collaboration skills**, with the ability to work transversally and influence stakeholders without direct authority. * Proactive, autonomous and **user-oriented**, with a strong interest in continuous improvement and digital transformation. * Comfortable working in an **international, multi-site environment** and collaborating with teams across different organizations and cultures. * Knowledge of following tools are an advantage: Polarion, Jira, Git, Jenkins, Blackduck, SonarQube, PowerBI, … * Fluent in **English and French**; Dutch and German are a plus.