Senior Methods Engineer

<h3><strong>About Us</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, we are expanding our teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our work is guided by clear values: building technologies with real-world impact, pursuing excellence in everything we do, setting ambitious goals, and taking on the hardest technical challenges. We operate in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, and execution are expected.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are looking for a Senior Methods Engineer to join our production plant in Wissous. In our context of fast growth, you will act as the connector between Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and our Industrialisation &amp; Automation team.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are not asking for you to maintain what someone else built, we are asking for you to build it yourself: every process, standard, lean system.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">An ideal day in this position starts on the shopfloor: quick walk, performance standup, catching issues early.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Mid-day splits between desk work (time studies, routing updates, ERP automation) and cross-functional sessions with Production, Quality, and the Automation team.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Afternoons are hands-on: kaizen walks, work instruction updates, problem-solving with supervisors.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You close the day feeding data back into the system.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Roughly 50% floor, 50% structured engineering work, every day. In a nutshell:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Continuous Improvement &amp; Shopfloor Performance</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Production Line Design &amp; Internal Flow</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Process Knowledge &amp; Documentation</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Automation Roadmap Contribution</p></li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Candidate Requirements</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Diploma in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Production Engineering. A strong profile from a different engineering discipline associated with strong shopfloor experience is also valued.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in building methods structure in a fast-moving manufacturing environment (written work instructions from scratch, run time studies, 5S,...). Has owned a lean improvement roadmap, not just contributed to one.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ideally has navigated a ramp-u