2027 Manufacturing Apprentice - Modern Apprenticeship In Manufacturing
Thales Group · Scotland · G51 4BZ
About the role
Manufacturing Technician Apprentice 🚀
Ready to ditch the ordinary and dive into something epic? ✨ We're looking for curious, passionate minds to transform their interest in manufacturing and engineering into a seriously cool career. This isn't your average apprenticeship – it's a modern path blending awesome academic study with hands-on experience that actually matters. If you're ready to learn, grow, and be part of something big, we want you! 🤩
What's in it for You? 💰
- Get Paid While You Learn: Earn a salary from day one! 🤑
- Real-World Experience: Dive into a genuine manufacturing environment. 🏭
- Level Up Your Skills: Get dedicated, job-specific training and development. 📈
- Official Credentials: Achieve a recognised qualification that opens doors. 🏆
- Job Security: A permanent role is yours from the start. 🛡️
- Education Covered: We'll fully pay your college tuition fees. 📚
The Gig: 🛠️
As a Manufacturing Technician Apprentice, you'll gain the technical smarts, practical know-how, and professional swagger to become a top-tier Manufacturing Technician. You'll join our Industry team, helping us deliver killer products and equipment solutions, making sure projects are on track and within budget.
Your Mission (May Include):
- Helping to build and create amazing products. 💪
- Putting products through their paces with testing and validation. ✅
- Jumping into engineering investigations and cracking problems. 🧠
- Hitting customer sites and platforms for surveys, trials, and deployment – wherever needed! 🌍
- Teaming up with experienced pros on live, exciting projects. 🤝
What You'll Master: 🧠
- Professional industry behaviours and best practices that are gold standard. 💯
- Understanding and working with intricate, high-precision products. ⚙️
- Exposure to different industry roles and activities on live projects. 🌐
- The whole Manufacturing Product Lifecycle and key industry processes. 🔄
- Using cool manufacturing tools and methods. 🧰
- Structured and methodical approaches to solving complex problems. 💡
The Journey: 🎓
This is a full Modern Apprenticeship programme, culminating in gaining SVQ PEO Level 2, Diploma 7, and an HNC Level academic qualification. By the end of this 4-year adventure, you'll be a fully qualified Engineer!
- Year 1: The first 6 months are all about smashing your SVQ PEO Level 2 and HNC full-time at a further education college. The rest of the year, you'll be on-site at our Glasgow Thales location for your first placement.
- Years 2 & 3: You'll rotate through our production work cells, building a versatile skill set in Assembly and Test manufacturing processes. Your training will be documented, verified to Diploma 7/SVQ standards, and assessed externally.
- Year 4: You'll complete the Diploma 7 Work Based Learning job packs to earn your full qualification. Then, you'll be ready to step into roles like Integration and Test Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering, Product System Testing, Inspection, Optical Testing, and Environmental Testing. We'll also review further education opportunities, including higher-level qualifications if that's your jam. 🚀
Key responsibilities
- Supporting the build and manufacture of products
- Undertaking product testing and validation activities
- Assisting with engineering investigations and problem solving
- Visiting customer sites, platforms and installations to support surveys, trials and system deployment where required
- Working with experienced technicians on live projects
Entry requirements
Essential qualifications (2 Highers in English and Maths at a level B or above 5 National 5s including English, Maths and a Science subject at Grade C or above Live and work in Scotland for the duration of the programme. 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.)