Location: Reading, United KingdomIn 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.

This opportunity is for our Thales UK Optronics & Missile Electronics (OME) organisation and directly contribute to the on-going development of the Land, Sea and Air products and systems. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver their full range of defensive systems. From night vision goggles, hand-held thermal imagers and weapon sights to surveillance UAVs and soldier-worn power and data solutions - our teams are endlessly supporting innovation evolution of a whole array of products!

Our employees architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission.

We currently have a number of entry level opportunities across Engineering (Systems, Mechanical & Electronics). For this role, we are keen to hear from candidates who have recently graduated or maybe you have just started out in Systems and now looking for a new challenge in an exciting company where you can really develop and build a career.

The successful candidate will be a talented Junior Systems Engineer based in Reading with interest in IVVQ definition in the bid and concept stages, integration and verification of the system, coupled with a desire of delivering mission systems.

Our teams are at the forefront of technology, creating solutions for the future for our customers.

Key responsibilities:

To create the technical specifications with acceptance criteria for subsystems, To decompose requirements, ensuring that they have been partitioned and detailed to a level appropriate for the design to commence. To ensure, with the support of Specialty Engineering experts & Safety/HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) stakeholders:  That candidate solutions meet regulatory requirements including all applicable standards and legislation. This includes product safety & security and Environmental/HSE requirements and standards That solution designs take into account the contractual requirements That all related certification activities are performed correctly Development of design elements to meet the required performance within the overall system Manage and be responsible for allocated work packages. To define the integration, verification, validation, qualification, certification and acceptance methods and tools Be responsible for collated results and evidence

We would love to hear from you if you are interested in working in the Systems domain at Thales UK!

Thales UK is committed to driving innovation and pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Juniors can contribute to groundbreaking research and development efforts, shaping the future of technology in industries critical to national security and infrastructure.

Typical Benefits

Pension Health Insurance Life Assurance Private Medical Insurance Annual Leave 37 hour work week with a half day Friday

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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.

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