Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
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.
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.
An immediate vacancy for a Support Technician, with experience in a manufacturing environment. Working within a specialist manufacturing facility, consisting of prototyping and final build, you will support design & development teams in the manufacture of equipment based on customer specifications. Skills required include machining and some fabrication.
An excellent career development opportunity.
Our Opportunity
Working within the machine model shop you will support the wider Industrial team with day-to-day issues seen from a mechanical perspective in manufacture. You will also work with engineering to understand drawings and the overall concept of what is trying to be achieved. There is opportunity to have input to a design or steer it toward our in house processes or apply knowledge of what is available from the supply chain. Day to day could be the fabrication of tooling to support manufacture to rectification work extracting broken fixing or the manufacture of prototype designs.
Duties include being responsible for;
- Adheres to regulation
- CNC machining operation/ setting
- Hand tool for metal work operation
- Provides feedback to Engineering team regarding design, the materials
About You
Hands on machine shop or tool shop engineer, with proven experience within a manufacturing environment.
Other attributes include;
- Mechanical
- Supplier liaison
- Computer Literate
- Additive manufacturing experience would be an advantage
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.
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.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.
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