Project Manager

About Thales & cortAIx, its AI acceleration and industrialisation lab.

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Within the group, Thales Digital Solutions (TDS) is a technological innovation hub supporting all sectors of activity, both in the local Canadian market and internationally. Join us to contribute to the development of mission critical solutions via multiple and varied cutting-edge projects using our expertise in artificial intelligence, human factors, collaborative autonomous systems, optimization, knowledge management, cybersecurity and design.

Recently launched, cortAIx is an AI accelerator designed to provide armed forces, aerospace manufacturers, and critical infrastructure operators with secure, cutting-edge solutions that enhance data-driven decision making and operational efficiency. Designed for critical environments, cortAIx seamlessly integrates AI into systems that must meet the highest standards of cybersecurity, deployability, and resource optimization, ensuring superior performance without compromise.

Working at Thales Digital Solutions...

• You have the choice between working at the office or from home.
• You join a company with a family spirit and social activities throughout the year (5* BBQ, end-of-year party, sporting challenges...).
• You join a "large team" (around one hundred employees at TDS) that shares values of transparency, direct relationships, and where mutual aid is essential!
• You have the opportunity to try and evolve in different roles to grow your career.
• You work on stimulating and innovative projects, interacting internationally with passionate colleagues around the world and with local ecosystems.

Job Summary

Being a Project Manager at Thales Digital Solutions,

Project management at Thales Digital Solutions is first and foremost close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (software developers/architects, product owners (POs), designers, scientists, marketing, business development) to manage projects and/or programs of various sizes.

Project management with us is above all a role of facilitator and conductor on a portfolio of projects focused on the same domain of expertise to ensure a common vision between scientific activities and development activities while ensuring that the design vision and user needs are understood and integrated into the solution.

Our role as a project manager is to ensure that each collaborator can be heard and have an impact on projects and the objectives to be achieved. The project manager with us is an important part of the team to ensure project success.

As an organization, we believe in the agile philosophy and we do not hesitate to improve our ways of doing things.

Our goal is to foster innovation across different research axes such as:

• Cybersecurity
• Human factor analysis using sensory sensors to better support the operator in critical tasks,
• The use of artificial intelligence to offer decision-making capabilities between different agents,
• The analysis of historical data combined with expert knowledge to make recommendations and support humans in understanding complex situations.

Essential Functions

• You will be responsible, in collaboration with the innovation, engineering and research manager, for the roadmap and global vision of one or more projects and/or project portfolios for which you will be in charge
• You will ensure the alignment of the company's strategic objectives, research objectives, and the projects of a single project portfolio
• You will be responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction and the achievement of the project team's objectives
• You will facilitate workshops with various stakeholders to ensure everyone is moving in the same direction
• You will oversee risk management and the implementation of appropriate mitigation measures
• Always in collaboration with the various project stakeholders, you will establish and communicate objectives, the schedule, performance indicators, project expectations, work to be performed, milestones and project deliverables
• You will act as the liaison between the various project stakeholders
• You will coordinate the various perimeter managers involved to ensure project success
• You will be responsible for planning and managing the workload of the team working on your project portfolio(s)
• You will master the terms and conditions as well as the project budget
• You will manage the billing milestones associated with the project

This position is for you if...

• You like supporting teams and clients to solve problems
• You care about creating solutions that bring value to the client and the company
• You like to foster opportunities and make the projects you manage known
• You define yourself as someone organized
• You have a taste for learning and diversifying
• For you, sharing vision and information within the company is important
• You like contributing to the implementation of process improvements and participating in a project manager community
• You like being at the heart of a multidisciplinary team and fostering innovation to set up the projects of tomorrow.

Minimum Requirements

What is absolutely necessary to apply...

• A Bachelor's level or equivalent in an appropriate discipline;
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in project management or a strong willingness to rely on significant past experience to step into a project manager role

This position requires a good knowledge of English to interact, support and/or provide services to international clients, employees and/or partners as well as to foreign government authorities who do not speak French.

Desirable Qualifications

And what is strongly recommended to have to apply...

• Proactivity and a strong sense of organization, priority management and deadline compliance
• Good team spirit, excellent interpersonal skills as well as oral and written communication skills;
• Interest in cutting-edge technologies demonstrated by mastered knowledge in our fields of innovation
• Good command of spoken and written French and English
• Aptitudes for teamwork
• PMP certification an asset
• Good knowledge of the software development context an asset

But since we are looking more for a personality - who has a taste for learning, who remains humble and open - than just skills... Do not hesitate to contact us because we always have plenty of opportunities!

Special Job Requirements

Travel: Between Quebec City and Montreal primarily and on an occasional basis.

Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
• Employee Discounts on insurance (home, and auto).

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are advised accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List, the Canadian Controlled Goods Program, the Canadian Industrial Security Program, the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access including eligibility to the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and able to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.