Quality Assurance Manager

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Quality Assurance Manager in Portugal to drive quality, operational excellence, and standards compliance for defence and aerospace projects.

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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) is a plus;
Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English;
Proactive, adaptable and collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively in multicultural and multidisciplinary environments.

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.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

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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Quality Assurance Manager at Thales rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Quality Assurance Manager is an open job at Thales.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Paço de Arcos - Q45.
The job was posted on July 30, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Thales. Apply on Thales

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