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Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

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.

Position: Manufacturing Operator
Job Type: Permanent

Our Opportunity:

Due to demand we’re looking for a Manufacturing Operator to join the team in Templecombe.

The Manufacturing Operator will be accountable for performing manufacturing operations in accordance with appropriate engineering drawings and documents, by working within the allocated times and the required quality criteria.

Some experience working in a technical role would be advantageous but full training will be provided. You’ll work with an experienced team and have ample opportunity to learn, develop and progress.

What the role has to offer:

• Great variety of work – every day is different

• Highly supportive team with the opportunity to learn from others

• Opportunities for career progression

• 4 days working week- 37Hrs/week (On Rota)

What you'll do:

• Experienced operator, performs a number of highly qualified, fairly complex operations, organizing the work according to standard procedures and with a high degree of autonomy, applying basic knowledge of several domains relative to the concerned perimeter

• Reach day-to-day objectives and deliver results that have a limited impact on production unit/function overall results.

• Obtain and provide information relative to concerned domains and technics within the production organization.

• Detect and alert on problems relative to existing methods, tools and techniques toward the Manager.

About You

• The ability to interpret a build pack

• Genuine interest in working in a technical manufacturing role

• Able to grasp and develop technical skills

• Can follow instructions and work to tight deadlines

• Willingness to learn

• Able to work as part of a large team

• Ideally from an Engineering/Manufacturing background

• Any experience working in a technical role would be an advantage

• Currently hold or able to obtain SC level clearance with no restrictions

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Company Story

The future is full of excitement and change; each new change and technology will create situations no one has had to deal with before or even anticipated and it will happen at an even faster pace than today.

Our 3 priorities throughout the crisis remain constant:

• To continue to protect all our employees’ health and financial wellbeing.

• To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.

• And, to ensure that Thales is best placed to recover quickly.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales

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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