2027 Integration and Testing Production Repair Engineering Apprentice - Level 6

As part of our Industry team, you will test and fault diagnosis on deliverable Systems and sub-assemblies to component level; Survey, repair and upgrade customer equipment. Provide technical support to Project/Engineering Teams and contribute to the development and evaluation of innovative approaches/solutions to ongoing issues or problems.

What you'll do

• Test and diagnose complex faults on deliverable customer systems and sub-assemblies
• Co-ordinate all activities with regards to the testing of the Systems to ensure delivery dates are met to agreed quality and costs
• Responsible for the presentation of Systems for customer acceptance
• Directly represent Thales with respect to the provision and support of Customer Systems, both on and off-site, including Setting to Work and all Trials and Customer Acceptance tasks
• Provide Test Methods and solutions and generate procedures to enable System and LRU test and support
• Supply technical information to Operation Management and Project Teams to enable appropriate decisions to be made
• Inform Test Management and Engineering of any requirements for Test Equipment and define those requirements

Training

Programme structure:

Throughout the four-year programme, you will combine university study with practical workplace experience, developing both academic knowledge and professional engineering skills.

• Lectures and workshops are delivered through a series of 2-week blocks spaced throughout your degree apprenticeship
• Alongside campus taught lecturers, you will have access to digital resources and discipline experts to support your studies

You will study towards a Level 6 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree Apprenticeship with Exeter University.

In your first year you will be given a broad theoretical and practical knowledge across all core engineering disciplines, before progressing onto increasingly advanced topics later in the course.

Years one and two provide core fundamental knowledge of engineering principles, as well as applying mathematics to engineering problems. Years three and four are spent applying your knowledge to engineering problems.

You will complete a Technical Report and Presentation in the final year: an opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills to devise an engineering solution at a professional level in an area of engineering study that aligns to your role at Thales.

By the end of the programme you will have achieved a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as a Level 6 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree Apprenticeship.

After the apprenticeship

By the end of the programme you will have achieved a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as a Level 6 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree Apprenticeship.

Skills

• Attention to detail
• Problem solving skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE, 5 GCSE's Including Maths and English (grade Grade 9-4 (A-C))
• Essential: A Level, 3 A Levels including Maths and a Science subject (grade ABB with a B in Maths)

Things to consider

Because of the work we do at Thales, all roles are subject to security requirements. To be considered for this position, you must have the permanent right to work in the UK and be able to successfully complete and maintain UK Government security checks, including Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) screening and Security Clearance (SC), which is a government background check, before starting employment.

To be eligible for SC clearance, you will typically need to have lived in the UK continuously for the last five years. As part of the vetting process, you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, right to work in the UK, any time spent overseas during the last five years, and your employment and/or education history.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement 201 hours a year (plus a company day and bank holidays)
• Contributory company pension
• Health care cash plan
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount and wellbeing portal
• Life cover
• 80 hours volunteering per year (first two years), 24 hours after that

About the employer

Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Electrical and electronic engineer (degree) (level 6), Engineering and manufacturing
• Apprenticeship level: Degree (level 6)
• Training provider: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• Expected duration: 4 Years
• Hours: 37 hours a week. Working week: Flexible working. Monday - Thursday , 8 hours per day. Friday, 5 hours.
• Start date: 6 September 2027
• Positions available: 2
• Wage: £24,000 a year