Apprentices in Australia

Thales’s Garden Island site welcomes highest intake of apprentices and trainees to date.

06 Feb 2024

Recently, the team at Garden Island Defence Precinct, Sydney welcomed its largest intake of apprentices and trainees to date. The new recruits will support key activities at GIDP – from ship maintenance and repair works to critical sustainment activities for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Inventing the future through apprenticeships and traineeships

27 Jul 2023

Apprentices and trainees play a vital role in the Thales’ Above Water Systems (AWS) business to ensure we maintain a diverse pipeline of talent and critical skills to stay competitive and fulfil our future customer requirements.

Forging a career in Project Management: Bridie Searle shares life as a Trainee at Thales

15 May 2023

Trainees and apprentices play a critical role at Thales, bringing fresh ideas, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn. Over the last 10 years, over 100 apprentices and trainees have qualified in their chosen field across the Above Water Systems business at Thales. Bridie Searle is just one of the trainees.

Faces of Thales - John Dee

08 May 2023

Take a behind the scenes look at our Protected Vehicles manufacturing site in Bendigo in Australia, where Thales designs and manufactures the Hawkei and Bushmaster Protected Vehicles for the Australian Army and exports around the world.

Thales Australia’s Scylla In-Service Support team welcomes graduate placements from Defence Industry Pathways Program

12 Sep 2022

The Collins Class Submarine Sonar Suite (Scylla) are the ‘eyes and ears’ of the submarines, and are critical in supporting Australia’s strategic priority on enhancing its submarine capability.

Thales Australia's Latia Hardie paving the way for the next gen of female tradies

12 Sep 2022

Thales Australia's Latia Hardie is a Manufacturing Technician - Machine Setter at the Lithgow Arms site and is the face of a TAFE NSW campaign to promote the career prospects available to women in the engineering trades and manufacturing industry.

Skin in the game - how two Lithgow apprentices put themselves in the customer's shoes

12 Sep 2022

Thales Australia employees Josh Winter and Angus Carrigan both began their apprenticeships at our Lithgow site in January 2019 and have fully immersed themselves in the business - even completing a five-week basic Army Reserve training at Kapooka to gain a true appreciation of the rifle used by our customer!

Investing in the next generation to build skills for the future – Traineeships

04 Nov 2021

Above Water Systems (AWS) is committed to developing talent to join our team of highly skilled and innovative engineers to ensure that our engineering community remains at the cutting edge of best practice.

Investing in the next generation to build skills for the future – Apprenticeships

04 Nov 2021

Over the past 10 years AWS has assisted 100+ apprentices and trainees qualify in their chosen field; building true Australian Industry Capability and delivering quality outcomes for our business to support the Navy to keep Australia safe.