Thales Traineeship

Start date: 01/10/2023

Deadline appplication: 30/06/2023

Do you want to kickstart your career in an international high-tech environment?

About the job

As a Thales trainee you will be trained for a steep learning curve, to advance your career within Thales quickly. We will provide you with the tools to grow into an internal position with impact. Not just during one assignment, mind you, since you will work on three interdisciplinary assignments within approximately two years. And when you’re done? You’ll land 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

About you

Are you a young and ambitious talent with 0-3 years work experience? Do you have a broad interest in becoming a specialist or a generalist within the environment of technology, safety and security? Do you have the ambition to develop yourself within an international high-tech environment? And are you in possession of a Master certificate and a 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, plus technical feeling and affinity. To become one of our future leaders or specialists it is important that you are autonomous, open, curious, resilient and can think quick on your feet. Furthermore, you are able to build your own network, you have a great self-understanding and you perform as a compassionate leader. It is important that you feel at home in an organisation in which you deal with multiple interests and stakeholders and where the improvement and optimization of processes is key. Looking forward to contribute to this?

Basically, it is important to be flexible, so you can have the change to experience our different sites, 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 26th of May , to show your interest.

Take the following dates into account:

Apply before May 26 2023:

1. CV selection and cognitive abilities test & personality questionnaire: Online
2. Match and theme interviews by Thales and a collaborating consultancy agency: Between 15 – 26 May
3. Assessment by Thales and a collaborating consultancy agency: Between May 22 – June 2
4. Offer, contract and matching process: As soon as possible
5. Start traineeship: 1 October

Apply between May 29 and June 30 2023:

1. CV selection and cognitive abilities test & personality questionnaire: Online
2. Match and theme interviews by Thales and a collaborating consultancy agency: Between 5 – 16 June
3. Assessment by Thales and a collaborating consultancy agency: Between 12 – 23 June
4. Offer, contract and matching process: As soon as possible
5. Start traineeship: 1 October