Location: Hengelo, Netherlands

About Us

With 80.000 talents working in 68 countries, we are one of the biggest high-tech employers in the field of safety and security. In the Netherlands, where 2000 employees are based, we are located in four cities: Huizen, Delft, Eindhoven and Hengelo (HQ). Together with an extensive ecosystem of knowledge partners, customers and suppliers, we work on radars for naval vessels, cyber security solutions, transportation systems, communication equipment for land forces, cryogenic cooling solutions and research & development for radar tech (in collaboration with TU Delft).

About The Team

The Naval Industry team is responsible and accountable for the on-time production and delivery of the Thales Naval products within in cost and first-time right. To realize this the Naval Industry team is strongly and closely cooperating with the other departments (e.g. Engineering, Procurement, Product Segments) within Thales Naval. As Thales Naval we foster a strong growth in demand to our products and to secure this growth the Industry organization needs to increase their focus on Digital Technology.

For that reason, we are looking for a:

Digital Technology Technician

About The Job

As Digital Technology Engineer you will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of our Digital Technology tools we use in our production lines and our products. The variety of these tools are broad: applications, server cabinets, network devices, tablets, smart screwdrivers, cobot/robot etc.

In this position you will be part of the Digital Technology team within the Industry Operations department.

The main tasks and responsibilities are:

Implement and maintain our IS/IT desktop and server networks
Install and configure software and operating systems
Create dualboot systems with Redhat and Windows
Administrate the technical IS/IT (infrastructure) solutions (network drawings, ip lists etc)
Find and solve network issues (switches, vlan, multicast)
Implement solution on virtual platforms such as VMware
Support Industry 4.0 and Smart Industry initiatives
Actively team with the IS/IT department

About You:

MBO/HBO working and thinking level, towards IT or similar.
Experience with network management, both hardware and software.
Knowledge of dual boot configurations, Redhat Linux and Windows 11.
Experience working with switches (VLANs, multicast) and network solutions on 10Gbit.
Experience with VMware and setting up virtual machines for various (legacy) operating systems.
Good communication skills and the ability to work constructively with internal departments.
Independent, solution-oriented and accurate in administration.

Thales offers

An interesting job within a nice team in an international high-tech environment;
Room for and attention to personal development and personal initiative;
The opportunity to grow within the organization, for instance on a technical, managerial, commercial or international level;
An open and flexible work environment where a good work-life balance is considered important;
A pleasant workplace in "the best building in the Netherlands" (Public’s Choice Award, 2015) with our own Starbucks corner;
Excellent work conditions, with 40 holidays a year, among other benefits.

Interested?

Would you like to apply directly? Then click on the button ‘Apply now’ to show your interest. For questions you may contact our Talent Acquisition Partner Laurence Janssen at laurence.janssen@external.thalesgroup.com.

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Digital Technology Technician