Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Electrical Manufacturing Engineer
We have a great opportunity for an Electrical Manufacturing Engineer to join our Integrated Airspace-protection Systems (IAS) team in Belfast.
Key responsibilities
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in:
- Working as a member of a multi-functional team during the industrialisation phase to ensure robust Electrical Manufacturing Processes
- Supporting APQP activities as part of the industrialisation phase
- Supporting the industrialisation of NPI programmes supporting & carrying out manufacturing readiness.
- Production support to ensure production issues are resolved in a timely manner
- Shaping departmental and functional processes.
- Liaising with other engineering departments to ensure design intent is implemented fully and a high quality product delivered.
- Providing cost information to enable make/buy decisions to be made
- Supporting & leading Root Cause Investigations
About you
Ideally, you’ll:
- Have an HNC (essential) and/or a degree (preferred) in an engineering discipline
- Possess prior experience working within manufacturing
- Have demonstrable work experience in Mechanical / Electrical assembly processes
- Have a working knowledge of product life cycle phases i.e. feasibility, development/design, manufacture, customer support, APQP
- Possess excellent numerical skills with a good mathematical background
Benefits at Thales
We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include a pension plan, healthcare cash plan, life assurance, income protection as well as an employee assistance programme.
In addition, our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefits to suit your needs. You can choose to add a number of optional benefits including: private medical insurance, health assessments, buying/selling annual leave, gym membership discounts + much, much more. You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site!
Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus, 27 days annual leave + 1 company day + UK public holidays as well as the opportunity to volunteer up to 3 days to support local charities/communities in which we work.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to our success.
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