Thales

Manufacturing Operator

Posted Sep 18, 2025
Project ID: 1213
Location
Hengelo
Hours/week
40 hrs/week
Payrate range
Unknown
Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2025 12:00 AM

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The Racks & Cabinets department is part of our Industry department at Thales and consists of a team of 55 enthusiastic employees. Together, they ensure that various racks, cabinets, and cable harnesses are carefully assembled and tested.



About the job

During your workday, you will be primarily responsible for your own projects, such as creating cable harnesses or assembling various sub-assemblies. Customer requests are not serialized, but rather specific, which keeps the work challenging every day and allows you to continue developing your skills.

At Thales, we also highly value innovation. Therefore, we invite you to actively contribute to improving products, processes, or increasing efficiency.

Your main tasks:

  • Assembling complex racks and cabinets.

  • Finishing cable harnesses according to internal regulations.

  • Prototyping and initial wiring harnesses.

  • Assembling mechatronic (sub)modules.



What you’ll bring

You're a good match if you have knowledge and experience in mechatronics or electrical engineering and can stay focused on your own work. We also believe it's important that you're eager to learn and motivated to continue developing yourself.




What you’ll gain:

Wherever your passion lies, Thales can help you make the best use of your skills and creativity. As a contractor at Thales, you can expect to experience:


  • An interesting job within a team of experts in an international high-tech environment.

  • Room for and attention to personal development and personal initiative.

  • The opportunity to grow within the organization, whether in a technical, managerial, commercial or international capacity.

  • A flexible work environment with a focus on maintaining a good work-life balance.



About Thales

Thales offers untold opportunities to take part in fascinating projects and overcome ambitious human and technological challenges. As a contractor, you’ll be part of a community of experts bringing together innovations from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace. Collaborating to find solutions to the biggest challenges in the most difficult conditions.

Drawing on a diversity of expertise, perspectives and cultures, we are able to provide the best possible solutions to our customers. Together, we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.

Randstad, as the EMEA Thales talent acquisition partner, is responsible for finding and contracting talent for the contingent roles at Thales. If you are selected for a role you will be engaged or employed by one of the Randstad recruitment companies in EMEA and will not be an employee of Thales.

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This position offers a one-year contract with the opportunity to transition to a permanent contract at Thales Nederland after the first year.

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