About the role
Location: Paço de Arcos - Q45, Portugal
For more than 35 years, Thales acts in Portugal for global Defence and Aerospace markets and promotes and delivers innovative solutions that enhance its customer’s critical systems' security, on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, through a technical team of excellence.
Bring your Quality Assurance expertise to the forefront of mission-critical Defence and Aerospace solutions. Join Thales Portugal as a Quality Assurance Manager and help drive quality, operational excellence and continuous improvement across complex projects and products.
Responsibilities
Support critical bids, projects and products by ensuring compliance with quality processes, governance and applicable standards;
Coach and support multidisciplinary teams in applying quality management practices and improving process maturity throughout the project lifecycle;
Provide independent quality assessments and report operational performance to project and senior management;
Identify risks, opportunities and improvement actions to strengthen project execution and organisational maturity;
Collaborate with engineering, project management, product teams, customers and Government Quality Assurance Representatives (GQAR);
Perform quality reviews, audits and internal assessments, supporting root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives;
Promote quality awareness, operational excellence and best practices across the organisation;
Contribute to the continuous improvement and deployment of the Quality Management System.
Requirements
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Management or a related technical field;
Experience in Quality Assurance within complex engineering, software or high-tech environments;
Good knowledge of Quality Management Systems and international standards, particularly ISO 9001:2015;
Familiarity with defence quality standards such as AQAPs and STANAGs is an advantage;
Understanding of project management, quality planning, reviews, risk management and continuous improvement methodologies;
Experience with Agile software development practices; knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) i…
