Thales in the UK makes great engineers. With the 2017 Engineering UK report revealing that we’re likely to need 265,000 people with engineering skills each year until 2024, we know that some of our wisest investments are in the upcoming generation.
The historic change on the horizon for the UK will require many more qualified engineers to join the workforce over the next decade. Our role is to support and develop the next wave of talent within our industry.
At Thales in the UK, we’re passionate about science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). We want to inspire young people to engage in these fascinating subjects, not just for their own educational development, but for the future of the UK.
People often assume STEM is for the schoolroom. We know it’s not. We’re on a mission to show future generations how important STEM is in our daily lives, and what exciting career prospects it can open up.
We’re developing tools and information for young people, and wherever possible we’re opening up opportunities for them to gain critical skills and knowledge about our industry and the options available to them.
Discover more about how we’re reaching out to young people by visiting our dedicated STEM and outreach page below.
The Year of Engineering is a government campaign which celebrates the world and wonder of engineering.
From spaceships to ice skates, the bubbles in chocolate bars to lifesaving cancer treatment, engineering touches every part of our lives.
Working in engineering is exciting, rewarding and creative. We need the next generation of innovators and problem solvers to join the industry and help shape the future of the world we live in.
There are lots of different routes into a career in engineering, including a university qualification or an apprenticeship. You can take a closer look at what life in engineering is like in 2018 by visiting a wide range of organisations, meeting engineers in school or arranging work experience.
Find out what’s happening near you, visit the website or or search #YoE on Twitter.
By combining the curiosity to explore, the intelligence to question and the vision to create, we’re transforming the world around us. And we’re looking for the next generation of game-changers to join us.
Together, we’ll clarify the confoundingly complicated problems our customers face across aerospace, space, transportation, defence and security. Together, we’ll unravel the unrelentingly unknowable and translate it into ingenious solutions. Together, we’ll fire your imagination and fulfil your potential. Whether you’re a graduate, undergraduate or school leaver – become part of something big.
Graduates
If you’re a top-class graduate, we want to hear from you. With training programmes in engineering, business and finance,
we snap up people with talent and ambition from every discipline.
Our engineer graduate development programmes, which run parallel to your engineering role, is for you if you have a background in technology, science or engineering. It runs over two years and forms the backbone of your professional development, with high-level training courses, expert guidance from senior colleagues on the job, and team innovation challenges.
We run business management programmes for outstanding graduates in any subject, and finance programmes for those with finance-related degrees. Alongside these you can embark on our graduate development programme, which sets you up to become part of our worldwide organisation.
Internships and apprenticeships
Step into our world. Come face to face with big innovations, collaborate on real projects and learn from the best.
Gain world-class experience, and get ready to step up to new challenges with confidence.
On our apprenticeship scheme you’ll make the most of your talents while learning about engineering from the ground up. And if that’s not enough, you’ll earn while you learn, and be able to add one of the biggest and best names in the industry to your CV – which could just fast-track you to a position with us in the future. If you’re naturally curious, look at the world from a different angle and have an innate ability to solve problems, we want to hear from you. Because you have the mind of an engineer, and that’s exactly what we’re looking for at Thales in the UK.
Have you heard about the Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform? Itching to get your hands on one?
Then register for the Arduino Workshop to explore the powerful capabilities of Arduino with the expert guidance of a Thales engineer, and enter a global competition to win exciting prizes, from a fitbit alta HR to an exclusive tour of a Thales Research Centre in one of ten participating countries across the world.
Now’s your time to shine, begin your Arduino journey below:
