Apprentice - Aircraft Maintenance Technician GBR
UNITED AIRLINES INC - ADP ADVANTAGE
HOUNSLOW (TW6 2FA)
Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 April 2025
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Summary
United Airlines is excited to offer an apprenticeship for individuals passionate about starting a career in Technical Operations. If you have a passion for aviation and a drive to learn the intricacies of aircraft maintenance, we want to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with United Airlines as an Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice.
- Wage
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£15,000 a year
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Compensation package will be reviewed annually. Shift pay to be paid monthly (in arrears) when a shift pattern has been rostered for more than 30% of the calendar month.
- Training course
- Aircraft maintenance technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday 9am-5pm, potential to work shifts, early mornings, evenings, weekends and holidays.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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4
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
As an Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice, you will embark on a structured program combining classroom learning and hands-on experience, designed to equip you with the expertise to become a certified Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) mechanic in just 36 months!
- Engage in a comprehensive 36-month Apprentice program, including block-release classroom instruction at Farnborough College of Technology.
- Under direct supervision, acquire practical aircraft maintenance experience (on-job-training) at United Airlines’ facilities at Heathrow Airport and, potentially, in the U.S.
- Learn and apply maintenance skills across various areas, including Hydraulics/Pneumatics, Electrical Principles, Sheetmetal, Gas Turbine Engines, Structures, Aircraft Systems, Human Factors in Aircraft Engineering, and Aircraft Maintenance Practices.
Where you’ll work
WORLD BUSINESS CENTRE 1
NEWALL ROAD
HEATHROW AIRPORT
HOUNSLOW
TW6 2FA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
FARNBOROUGH COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Your training course
Aircraft maintenance technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
- Collect and interpret information or data to perform maintenance tasks.
- Record or enter information: paper based or electronic. For example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any reporting requirements.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Apply safe systems of work. For example, risk assessments, COSHH, tool control and use of equipment and tools.
- Identify problems, collect evidence, analyse evidence, and determine the cause and maintenance activity required.
- Plan, organise and use resources to complete tasks.
- Follow instructions. For example, manufacturers and maintenance procedures.
- Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Apply mathematical techniques and engineering principles to solve engineering problems.
- Apply maintenance methods and practices. For example, remove, refit, replace, repair, systems or components.
- Test and check aircraft equipment or aircraft systems. For example, built in test equipment, flight control systems, line replacement units or items.
- Assess condition of aircraft components and aircraft equipment. Identify action required. For example, visual inspections.
- Select, check, use, store and control tools and equipment. For example, ground support equipment or test equipment.
- Apply good housekeeping, for example, prior to, during and after completion of the activity to the work area.
- Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing.
- Consider the properties and characteristics of aircraft materials and the possibility of damage to aircraft whilst performing the activity. For example, barely visible impact damage.
- Select aircraft consumables for carrying out maintenance activity.
- Carry out pre-use checks of resources and ensure sufficient supplies of materials and consumables for maintenance activity.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion policies and procedures.
- Apply quality assurance procedures. For example, completion of aircraft servicing schedules or aircraft technical logs.
- Apply team working principles.
- Collect and interpret information or data to perform maintenance tasks.
- Record or enter information: paper based or electronic. For example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any reporting requirements.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Apply safe systems of work. For example, risk assessments, COSHH, tool control and use of equipment and tools.
- Identify problems, collect evidence, analyse evidence, and determine the cause and maintenance activity required.
- Plan, organise and use resources to complete tasks.
- Follow instructions. For example, manufacturers and maintenance procedures.
- Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Apply mathematical techniques and engineering principles to solve engineering problems.
- Apply maintenance methods and practices. For example, remove, refit, replace, repair, systems or components.
- Test and check aircraft equipment or aircraft systems. For example, built in test equipment, flight control systems, line replacement units or items.
- Assess condition of aircraft components and aircraft equipment. Identify action required. For example, visual inspections.
- Select, check, use, store and control tools and equipment. For example, ground support equipment or test equipment.
- Apply good housekeeping, for example, prior to, during and after completion of the activity to the work area.
- Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing.
- Consider the properties and characteristics of aircraft materials and the possibility of damage to aircraft whilst performing the activity. For example, barely visible impact damage.
- Select aircraft consumables for carrying out maintenance activity.
- Carry out pre-use checks of resources and ensure sufficient supplies of materials and consumables for maintenance activity.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion policies and procedures.
- Apply quality assurance procedures. For example, completion of aircraft servicing schedules or aircraft technical logs.
- Apply team working principles.
Your training plan
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English, Maths & Physics/Science (grade C / 5 and 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
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
• Failure to provide qualification/exam results may result in your application being rejected. • Full, clean UK driving licence • Must be willing and able to travel internationally for training. • Must be flexible to work shifts, including evenings, early hours, weekends, and holidays. • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to thrive in a team-oriented learning environment. • Effective verbal and communication skills • Ability to demonstrate mechanical aptitude. • Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking English. • Willingness to undergo training for routine maintenance tasks. • Willingness to work in various conditions, both indoors and outdoors. • Must be legally authorised to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship. • Must be able to obtain a permanent airside ID for LHR. • Reliable and punctual attendance is an essential function of the position. • Valid passport and ability to travel to the U.S. • Ability to travel independently to attend both the Farnborough College Campus and LHR airport.
About this company
There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Are you ready to be part of a team that keeps our fleet flying high? Join the journey with United Airlines as we soar to new heights in the aviation industry. Our mission, “Connecting People, Uniting the World,” is at the heart of everything we do. As a global leader with a presence in countless communities worldwide, we embrace our responsibility to foster diversity, inclusion, and opportunity. With ambitious growth plans, we’re looking to welcome thousands of new team members across all areas of our operations. United offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to promote your health and happiness. Our unique culture is powered by employee-led “Business Resource Groups,” and the perk of space-available travel makes United an unparalleled place to work.
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Company benefits
As a full-time apprentice, you will be entitled to 150 hours of holiday per calendar year (1st Jan – 31st Dec) plus Bank Holidays.
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of your apprenticeship, you may be qualified to become an Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT). The expected progression at this stage is the attainment of your Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) licence, which United will support you through. This would be in readiness to hold your airworthiness release, whereby you can release aircraft, signing them off as airworthy.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
FARNBOROUGH COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Business Services
Business@farn-ct.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317606.
Apply now
Closes in 14 days (Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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