Air Traffic Control Operational Specialist

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 Air Traffic Management expertise to the future of airspace operations. Join our Airspace Mobility Solutions (AMS) team at Thales Portugal and help deliver innovative ATM solutions for customers across Europe.

Responsibilities:

• Support pre-sales activities, co-engineering tasks and solution co-design;

• Support development teams by providing Air Traffic Management operational expertise;

• Evaluate system operational maturity and share status reports;

• Prepare and lead customer demonstrations, qualifications and training activities; Participate in solution design and work closely with Product Owners and System Engineers;

• Contribute to dataset preparation and collaborate with integration and verification teams to support project activities;

• Work closely with customers and internal stakeholders to support project delivery, process improvements and transition activities;

• Provide Air Traffic Management operational expertise by contributing to solution design, process improvement initiatives and product delivery activities;

• Support project execution through dataset preparation, integration and verification activities, customer demonstrations and transition support.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in similar positions on projects delivering a complex software solution;

• Instructor grade or Air Traffic Control qualifications;

• Experience in the ATM Domain and Air Traffic Management standards eg. ICAO, Eurocontrol, AID.;

• Experience in Dataset preparation for an ATM System;

• Have a knowledge of European ATM Domain / ANSP;

• High level of understanding on dataset / adaptation data goals and impacts;

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and international customers;

• Positive attitude, sound judgement and a continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.
For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

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At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Tiago Vital is looking forward to your online application on our Career Portal.

Tiago Vital – Talent Acquisition Partner

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