Operations roles in European defence tech cover a broad range of work, from satellite tasking and drone mission planning to manufacturing coordination and field logistics. At the startups and SMEs tracked on DefenceJobs, operations typically means keeping hardware-intensive products moving through production, deployment and sustained use. That can look like scheduling SAR satellite passes at ICEYE in Finland, coordinating drone operations at DroneUA in Ukraine, or managing navigation system delivery at Exail in France. Major primes like Airbus Defence, Thales, Leonardo and Rheinmetall employ thousands more in operations across their European facilities.
