2024 Integrated Logistics Support Engineering Apprentice – Graduate Level Apprenticeship in Design and Manufacture

Job Description

Job title: 2024 Integrated Logistics Support Engineering Apprentice – Graduate Level Apprenticeship in Design and Manufacture

Company: Thales

Job description: Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow’s possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Integrated Logistics Support Engineering Apprentice

Graduate Level Apprenticeship in Design and Manufacture

Location: Glasgow

Are you looking for an employer who will sponsor you through a degree, whilst providing valuable and exciting on-the-job experience within a global, innovative and industry leading organisation?

Our exciting Integrated Logistics Support Engineering Apprentice role will establish and develop your skills to become a confident, positive and flexible engineer with well-honed technical knowledge across multiple domains. You will support the team to deliver solutions to deadlines and within budget, including influencing design decisions for the supportability of our products and ensuring the dependable reputation of Thales equipment for our customers.

As an Integrated Logistics Support Engineering Apprentice you will develop key skills and experience in the following:

• Statistical analysis of reliability including calculation and prediction
• Determination and influence of key maintainability and human factor characteristics with consideration for end-users and maintainers at the front-line of defence
• Mathematical modelling of Lifecycle costs and maintenance requirements
• Capturing crucial logistic information for products to enable repairs & spares
• Experience of working in multi-disciplined engineering development environment
• Familiarity with requirements management tools, aircraft, ship and vehicle and sensor systems and training simulator systems
• Application of industry leading software tools (Systecon’s OPUS10 & SIMLOX, Isograph, Raytheon Eagle LSAR, etc.) to facilitate multi-domain analyses
• Domain specific knowledge and application of mathematics skills to model the support systems
• Opportunity to develop creative support solutions
• Organisational skills with well-rounded communication and relationship building abilities
• Digital Technologies and Data Analytics

Degree Apprenticeship Programme:

Through our Graduate Level Apprenticeship you’ll be making the most of your talents, getting to understand support engineering from the ground up; and doing so with the help of one of the biggest and best names in the industry.

As an Integrated Logistics Support Engineering Apprentice you will be studying at University of Strathclyde towards a degree in Design & Manufacture BEng (Hons). For the duration of this four year programme you will combine university studies with practical application, working within our Software function in Glasgow.

You will be given one day per week in which to focus on your studies. For the other four days you will be working in the business, applying your university learning in a real-life engineering environment.

Upon completion of the programme you will move into a permanent role within Thales in Glasgow.

Who we’re looking for:

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who are motivated, committed and keen to learn. You will be a self-starter who is able to manage their time, show initiative and has a genuine interest in engineering and Thales. Successful candidates will show self-discipline and an aspiration to achieve a degree qualification.

Entry requirements:

AABB Highers, including Maths and another STEM subject. Please note that if your Highers are not gained in 2024, you will be required by the university to sits a Math assessment before your application is accepted.

Right to Work in the UK for the duration of the four-year programme.

Please note, assessment centres for shortlisted candidates will be held between February and May 2024. Induction week for all Graduate and Apprentices will commence on Monday 2 September until Friday 6 September 2024

Closing date: Our applications will close at 11.59pm on Sunday 11 February 2024, this is the only time we will be accepting applications this year. Please note we will be in contact by the end of January 2024 with details of next steps.

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales many of our roles are subject to security restrictions, and as a result, you may be limited to what you can work on within our business in relation to your place of birth and/or nationality.

As standard, all successful candidates must possess the permanent right to work in the UK, and will be required to go through Government security clearance at BPSS Level prior to starting with us and then to obtain full Security Clearance (SC) in line with the United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) requirements.

To gain full SC, you must have resided in the UK for a minimum of 12 months. As part of the vetting process you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, eligibility to work in the UK, time spent abroad over the last 5 years, as well as employment and/ or educational history.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link – .

In line with Thales’ Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact for mid to senior roles, or the for graduate and apprentice roles.

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Location: Glasgow

Job date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 07:30:24 GMT

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