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 European Nationality? If so, this Thales traineeship might be interesting for you!

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 chance to experience our different sites, potentially in an international assignment (i.e. U.K., Germany) or at one of our customers.

• 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 working conditions, a permanent Thales contract and a competitive salary

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.

What you’ll work with

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 Dutch sites (Hengelo, Huizen, Eindhoven, Delft, Amersfoort), at 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. Additionally, you will work on a Thales NL strategic project for all trainees to collaborate on.