2025 Manufacturing Planning Apprentice - Crawley
THALES UK LIMITED
Crawley, RH10 9HA
Closes on Sunday 16 February
Posted on 25 October 2024
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Summary
This exciting apprenticeship will give you the skills and knowledge to be an effective Planning Apprentice, within our Manufacturing team at Thales UK. The Planning and other industrial functions’ key responsibilities are to plan and deliver the needs of our internal and external customers through assured processes.
- Annual wage
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£22,500 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
• Pension – Thales match, plus 1%, with a maximum contribution of 7% • Health Insurance – 50% of salary for five years • Performance related pay uplifts
- Training course
- Engineering manufacturing technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Flexible working, Monday – Friday, 37 hours a week (8 hours Monday – Thursday, 5 hours Friday)
Sifts TBC.
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 1 September
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
- Create and maintain the production and repair schedules for company programmes aligned to customer demands
- Coordinate and schedule manufacturing and purchasing demand to most effectively utilise company resources
- Report regularly to a range of stake holders including adherence to schedule, issues to overcome and expectations for cost and delivery
- Work within the governance demands of Quality and Company process
- You will become fluent in Enterprise resource planning, capacity planning, Sales and operational planning
- To attend training as required and pass all examinations and continuous learning modules as specified by the course
Where you’ll work
Manor Royal
Crawley
RH10 9HA
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
CHICHESTER COLLEGE GROUP
Your training course
Engineering manufacturing technician (level 4)
Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
Course contents
Your training plan
For this position you will enrol onto a Level 4 Manufacturing Engineer Apprenticeship at Crawley College, to achieve an HNC level qualification over the 4 year programme duration. You will attend college on a day release basis to achieve your HNC qualification and will apply this learning into a real life context within our Industry function in Crawley. At the end of the apprenticeship you will have achieved an HNC in Manufacturing Engineering, plus a Level 4 Manufacture Engineer Apprenticeship and will roll off programme into a Planner role within our manufacturing business.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 5 GCSEs including Maths and English (grade 9-4 (A-C))
- Engineering or relevant discipline (grade MMM or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
About this company
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.
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/uk-career (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
201 hours annual leave (plus bank holidays) One additional company day at Christmas Healthcare Cash Plan 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme 80 hours (10 days) volunteering in your first 2 years depending on length of programme Discount Portal
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
At the end of the apprenticeship you will have achieved an HNC in Manufacturing Engineering, plus a Level 4 Manufacture Engineer Apprenticeship and will roll off programme into a Planner role within our manufacturing business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THALES UK LIMITED
Thales Early Careers Team
suppearlycar@uk.thalesgroup.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000284259.
Apply now
Closes on Sunday 16 February
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Company’s application instructions
Online Application Online Assessment and video interview Virtual Assessment Centre Offer, if successful