What it does: Designs and builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets.
Mission: To deliver competitive, highly reliable mission critical electronics products and systems that meet our customers' needs. We recognize that lives depend on what we do.
Size and presence: Employs around 3,800 people directly and supports over 2,000 jobs along its Australian supply chain. In 2020 Thales Australia spent $657 million with 1,841 Australia suppliers, of which 82% are SMEs.
Best known for: Thales Australia is perhaps best known for its naval ship repair operations and, as of 2019, leases the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney and also leases and occupies many of the buildings there.
The good bits: Competitive compensation and flexible work arrangements.
The not so good bits: Long hours, high pressure, and high turnover.
Combining a unique diversity of expertise, talents and cultures, our architects design and deliver extraordinary high technology solutions. Solutions that make tomorrow possible, today.
At a time when progress offers huge opportunities – and faces serious challenges, our customers trust that we have the skills, and experience to turn leading-edge technologies into systems and solutions that are both imaginative and resilient, human-centred and sustainable.
From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers think smarter and act faster - mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way.
Thales has considerable heritage in Australia having operated here for over 130 years; most notably as a major supplier to Australia’s Defence Force. With this long-standing heritage, comes an unrivalled understanding of Australia’s unique landscape and how to achieve the very best for our country and it’s people. We partner with the most innovative research and education institutions and small to medium enterprises; patiently investing to develop the best in local capabilities.
We collaborate to architect and deliver high technology solutions for our customers that are both imaginative and resilient, human centred and sustainable. Together, we harness the extraordinary power of technology to help our customers think smarter and act faster – mastering ever greater complexity along the way.
For over 100 years, Thales in Australia has been a trusted partner of the Australian Defence Force, leading the way in the research, development and manufacture of systems and solutions that help keep Australian Defence Force personnel safe.
Thales has a total of 15 generic job families. All equally important for the Group’s success, each of them is sponsored at the highest level and supported by an operational leader and his/her operational committee, an HR manager and a training support team in order to track trends, establish recruitment, training and career pathway needs, and plan for future developments.
We always want to hear from people with a passion for technology interested in building their career with us. Whether you have just discovered Thales, or have been following us for a while, and you’re ready to take the next decisive step in your career, then start by taking a look at our open positions.
Applications for specific positions need to be made online. This will ensure your application reaches the recruitment manager who is in charge of hiring for that position.
Applications by email or by post are unlikely to reach the right person. We have a global recruitment team working at multiple locations worldwide, which means that receiving an application by email or post means we can’t share your details with the right person.
You will also need a soft copy of your CV or resume available to upload as part of your online application.
At Thales, we take data protection very seriously. When you make an application online you will see our data privacy statement including how your data is used during your application and how it is stored.
if you are not comfortable then you can cancel your application before you provide any information.
The exact process for reviewing your data may vary from country to country, but in general your details will be reviewed first of all by a member of our recruitment team, and then your CV/resume may be shared with the hiring manager who wants to fill the role. Sometimes more than one person will involved in the recruitent process, and there may be more than one manager involved.
If you are successful and reach interview, we may make you an offer, which means your details will be shared with the HR administration team so that they can send you a formal offer letter and/or employment contract. If at any point you want to change, update, edit or remove your details from our system you can do this by logging into your account.
We have worked hard to make the application process as simple as possible. But the more information you give us the more we are able to progress your application accordingly, and the more we’ll get to know about you.
We offer you the option of using your LinkedIn account to import your details so you don’t need to type them all in.
Or you can upload your CV or resume and use that to auto-complete many of the questions asked by the system.
And, many of the questions asked during the online application process form are optional – only the fields with a red star next to them are essential.
When you make an application, your details are stored within our recruitment system used by all our recruiters worldwide.
This means a recruitement specialist directly employed by Thales with experience recruiting people in our group will review your details personally. Due to high volumes of applications and the urgency of certain roles, your application will normally be reviewed within a few days - in some cases within a few hours.
We will review the details provided in your application form together with your CV or resume plus any other documents uploaded. If your application is of interest then we will be in touch to talk about the opportunity further.
If we feel that your profile is not an exact match for the opportunity you have applied for, but might be of interest for other areas, we will also let you know, and we will always aim to let you know if your profile may not be a perfect match for the group.
The interview processes will vary according to location and role, however typically starts with a phone call from one of our recruiters. The purpose of this call is to collect some initial information about your suitability for the role. You might be asked for more detail about something on your CV/resume, asked to clarify some of your experiences or asked more about your current situation. You’ll be given more information about the role and the process we’ll be following and told what the next steps are.
Typically following this we’d organise a face to face meeting with successful applicants. This would usually involve meeting the manager and the recruiter and potentially some of the team you’d be working with in the role. Sometimes you might be asked to complete some online testing or asked to prepare a presentation or case study to bring with you to the meeting. If you’ve got any questions along the way, please contact the member of the Recruitment team who contacted you. We want to give you the opportunity to show how great you are, and we’re there to offer support and advice.
Our business success also depends on how much scope our employees have to broaden their experience by moving around between jobs and locations. We offer a broad range of training opportunities to enhance opportunities for job mobility throughout our many businesses and locations.
Underpinning our professional development policy is a full array of training programmes provided by Thales’s in-house university. Clearly defined processes are in place to ensure that each Thales manager meets regularly with individual employees to review their career aspirations and professional development prospects.
We believe that teamwork is a key factor in our growth, so we encourage collaboration in everything we do and constantly look for new ways for employees to interact.
To foster innovation and individual achievement, we expect our employees to be as creative and flexible as possible in the way they organise their work. Every year, Thales awards a prize for the most enterprising new project proposed by an employee.
At Thales, we are committed to giving all employees opportunities to be their best. Established over 30 years ago, Thales Learning Hub – formerly Thales University – is Thales’s in-house learning center of excellence supporting the Group’s employees worldwide at all key stages of their career. From initial induction to advanced professional development, enabling mobility and promotion throughout the organization.
The learning & development offer – designed by Talent & Culture teams and delivered in 11 Thales Learning Hub locations around the world – focuses on Thales’s strategic and business challenges. It is reviewed and updated each year in close relationship with sponsors and operational managers to stay aligned with the changes taking place within the Group and its markets.
The learning journey combines a wide array of learning methods including both Thales tailor-made programmes, facilitated by Thales senior managers or experts, as well as best in-class market solutions.
Special focus is given today to developing and delivering an innovative and disruptive digital learning approach, thanks to a dedicated Learning Lab. From blended to 100% digital and immersive learning, involving videos, virtual classes, serious games, experimentation, design thinking driven customized workshops, co-development, etc. Collaborative programmes across job families foster teamwork and meet the operational needs, just-in-time and on-the-job.
Throughout their career path in the Group, employees can benefit from the support of learning advisors to discuss opportunities to move to new roles, change job families and develop their skills to become managers or technical experts.
The average Thales salary ranges from approximately $53,168 per year for a Maintenance Mechanic to $212,657 per year for a Director.
Thales is continuing to step up its commitments to environmental, social and societal responsibility.
The Group recently raised its CO2 emissions reduction targets and reaffirmed its commitments on diversity and inclusion, ethics and compliance, and workplace health and safety.
To ensure that these matters are more fully addressed, the Group is making a number of organisational changes.
In addition to her role in coordinating the Governance, Ethics & Compliance, Legal, Audit, Risks & Internal Control, and Security functions, Isabelle Simon, Group Secretary & General Counsel, has assumed overall responsibility for matters relating to CSR.
A new Environmental and Societal Responsibility department has been created to bring together the expertise and competencies required for the Group to meet its commitments to environmental, social and societal responsibility (Environment, Diversity & Inclusion, Workplace Health and Safety, the Thales Solidarity community engagement programme and charitable fund).
Anne Bolot-Gittler has been appointed to lead this new Environmental and Societal Responsibility department. She reports to Isabelle Simon.
The Group is making two governance changes in order to place corporate responsibility at the centre of its strategic decision-making process:
Some people have unfortunately been victim to fraudulent activity on our social media accounts recently and have received false employment documents. We would like to alert you to this fact and remind you that the Thales Group will never ask you to advance any money to confirm a hiring position to fulfil any administrative procedures.