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For over 40 years, Thales has been a supplier to the Romanian armed forces, and in 2007, began to develop its industrial operations in Romania. Since then, Thales has embarked on expanding its team of software research and development to address railway transportation needs. The Group is today a major player in the Romanian rail transport industry and now operates a mainline rail signalling Competence Centre employing more than 250 software engineers. With significant contracts with the National Romanian Railways, (Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate CFR), Thales has commissioned 28 rail interconnect systems across Romania and is providing the latest-generation European Train Control System (ETCS) signalling standard.
Since the set-up of engineering capabilities in Romania for the rail transportation activities in 2007, our team in Bucharest is serving Thales’ customers worldwide. Our engineers have gained recognition for their competence and expertise throughout the Thales Group.
Silviu Agapi, Country Director for Thales in Romania
Thales is now expanding its presence in Romania through the development of a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC), reinforcing its position as a leader in all its markets. The ECC will deliver solutions beyond ground transportation, in a number of core Thales business areas, from space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
The ECC will deliver a first class Thales engineering capability in Romania thanks to the existing ecosystem of skilled engineers and the agile environment that Bucharest has to offer. Both the needs of the local market and export markets will be catered for, meaning those who join Thales will have the opportunity of working on diverse projects with a high level of complexity, innovating in all the different markets we are present in.
As a global technology leader, Thales has the capabilities, the strength and desire to address new challenges and new opportunities ahead in Romania. With our engineers and researchers, we have unparalleled capability to design and deploy equipment, systems, and services to meet the most complex security requirements. Thanks to the Bucharest-based Competence Centre, we will have a greater capability to serve Romania’s ambitions.
Building on its position as a leader in the rail transport industry, Thales in Romania is diversifying its activities to become a front runner in all of our core markets. Our Engineering Centre in Bucharest is becoming a strategic site in Thales Group, with high-level projects and career opportunities across all of our businesses: Defense, Security, Space, Aerospace and Ground Transportation. The highly skilled engineers and talented researchers Romania has to offer will provide the capability to deliver the best, innovative and digital solutions to our customers, both locally and globally.
Pierre-Eric Pommellet, Chief Operating Officer, Thales group.
Science & Technology
Thales's international growth strategy is based on the development of world-class expertise as close as possible to its customers. In Romania, Thales set up Thales Systems Romania (SRL), initially to meet the needs of the local rail sector. Today the company specialises in software development for rail transport and is contributing to Thales’s activities in international markets including Austria, Finland, Germany, Norway, South Africa and Spain.
In the field of science and technology, Thales in Romania is involved in the European laser research project ELI-NP (Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics), responsible for the turnkey development and supply of a complex scientific instrument. Providing its Romanian partners with a high-power laser system that will deliver the highest power in the world, 2x10 Petawatts (i.e. 20 million billion watts), Thales has also developed a special technical and scientific training programme to train our local engineers and technicians to install and operate the system for European research programmes. The laser was installed at Romania’s nuclear physics institute (IFN-HH) in Magurele, near Bucharest, 2016 and it will be fully functional in 2019.
Defence and security
Building on its strong ties with Romania in civil markets, Thales is seeking to expand its defence and security activities to support the modernisation of the armed forces and security services. As a trusted partner of the Romanian armed forces, Thales supplies tactical radio systems and a secure military tele-communications network. In 2013, the Romanian Navy selected Thales to supply an airborne anti-submarine warfare system. The Group is also a major player in cybersecurity and a leading supplier of Hardware Security Modules to protect data transfers.
As of January 2019, Thales in Romania has moved to a brand new state of the art office in the Orhideea Towers, one of the most modern and popular office complexes in the Western part of Bucharest city centre. This move represents the fast pace at which Thales in Romania is growing and the desire to provide employees with the best working environment possible. One of the advantages of being in this area is the close proximity to the Politechnica University of Bucharest, one of our key university partners.
Thales Romania is not just growing fast, but is also gaining a central role within the Thales group. We need a working space that stimulates creativity and networking, which is adapted to the young professional's expectations. This is very much in our philosophy that people need a comfortable and friendly working environment. The new premises are spacious, ideally located near the City's center, easily accessible and featuring all the modern day amenities. We are looking forward to welcoming you to our new offices.
Silviu Agapi, Country Director for Thales in Romania
