2027 Integration and Testing Production Repair Engineering Apprentice - Level 6

• 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

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

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.

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. 

• 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

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.