Thales Traineeship

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.

Do you want to kickstart your career in an international high-tech environment? And are you looking for a traineeship where you can develop your personal skills? Our third Thales traineeship starts in October 2023. Do you want to be our new

Thales trainee

About the job

As a Thales trainee you will be trained for a steep learning curve, to advance your career within Thales quickly.  You’ll be provided with tools to grow into an internal position with impact. You will work on three interdisciplinary assignments within approximately two years. After which you’ll land in a challenging job within Thales.

The assignments
The subjects you will work on are existing, interdisciplinary and challenging, based on a ‘real need’ and results. This gives you immediate responsibilities and exposure to (senior) management, the organization and external parties. As much as possible, you will have influence on the choice of your assignments. As a new trainee you will start your first, eight month, assignment at our headquarters in Hengelo, this also includes the introduction period together with the other trainees. Together you will form a learning team coached by our external partner.

The second and third assignment both last six months and can take place at any one of our sites (Hengelo, Huizen, Eindhoven, Delft, Amersfoort), an international Thales site or at one of our customers.

The three assignments you go through as a trainee each have a different focus area, namely technical/operational, strategic and project-related. Besides that you will work on a Thales NL strategic project for all trainees to collaborate on.

Some examples of assignments are:

• Reorganize the Sales Administration team
• New Product Introduction (NPI) Procurement
• New Performance Indicator (PI) over data driven decision making
• Mid Term Industrial Plan
• Country Strategic Plan
• Build a ‘business case’ database consisting of ideas for future industrial cooperation projects
• Lead an improvement initiative concerning our internal bid process
• Sales & Operations planning improvements
• Implement a collaborative way of working that will reach across departments
• Manage a customer project

As a Thales trainee you get the opportunity to quickly and broadly orientate yourself within the organization. The work is challenging, the guidance is good and together with the other trainees we form a close team.

About you

Are you a young and ambitious talent with 0-3 years work experience? Do you have a mixed interest in  becoming  a specialist or a generalist within the environment of technology, safety and security?  Do you have ambitions to develop yourself within an international high-tech environment? And are you in possession of a Master certificate and European Nationality? If so, this Thales traineeship might be interesting for you!

Thales NL is a large organization, part of the Thales Group, and is constantly developing and working on the future. The future of technology, but also building a sustainable future for our organization. As a Thales trainee you know how to act –with others– in a fast-changing world, you have excellent communication skills and technical feeling and affinity. To become one of our future leaders or specialists it is important that you are autonomous, open, curious, resilient and have multiple thinking capacities. Furthermore, you are able to build your own network, you have a great self-insight and you perform as a personal leader. It is important that you feel at home in an organization in which you deal with multiple interests and stakeholders and where the improvement and optimization of processes is key. Do you want to contribute to this?

Practically speaking, it is important to be flexible, so you can experience our different sites and potentially in an international assignment (i.e. U.K., Germany) or at one of our customers.

What’s in it for you

• Become part of a great team in a high-tech, innovative international organization
• (International) opportunities for growth in tech-, management- and commercial roles
• Attention for personal development and own initiative
• A personal mentor on senior executive level and an external coach throughout a period of 20 months (your traineeship period)
• 40 leave days per year, travel expenses and a flexible benefits à la carte package with options like purchase/sale of leave hours, internet costs, bicycle plan, company fitness or relocation costs
• Excellent work conditions, a permanent Thales contract and a competitive salary

Interested?

Would you like to apply directly?  Then click on the button ‘Apply now’, before the 15^th of June , to show your interest.

Take the following dates into account:

1. CV selection and cognitive abilities test & personality questionnaire: Online
2. Match and theme interviews by Thales and a collaborating consultancy agency: the 12^th and 19^th of June (one of those days)
3. Assessment by Thales and a collaborating consultancy agency: the 20^th and the 27^th of June (one of those days)
4. Offer, contract and matching process: As soon as possible
5. Start traineeship: 1 October

Thales has the right to share the application details of the candidates with the collaborating consultant agency. Assessments are part of the selection process

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!