2025 Systems Engineering Apprentice - Crawley
THALES UK LIMITED
Crawley, RH10 9HA
Closes on Sunday 16 February
Posted on 21 October 2024
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Summary
The role will develop your engineering skills to become a confident, positive and flexible engineer with well-honed technical knowledge gained from the academic commitments, supporting the team to deliver systems and equipment solutions to deadlines and within budget.
- Annual wage
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£22,500 a year
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• 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
- Product design and development engineer (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Flexible Working, Monday - Friday, 37 hours per week, Manager to confirm exact hours
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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2
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
As a Systems Engineering Apprentice you will develop the key skills and experience in the following:
- Develop an understanding of the required behaviours and codes of practice of a professional engineer
- Understanding complex systems by working on different roles and tasks on on-going projects
- Familiarity with the Systems Engineering Lifecycle and activities
- Familiarity with System Engineering tools and methods for requirements capture, requirements management and system design
- An understanding of systems test activities including Integration, Validation, Verification & Qualification (IVVQ) and the associated processes and tools
- A methodical and structured approach to problem investigation
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
THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Your training course
Product design and development engineer (degree) (level 6)
Equal to degree
Course contents
Your training plan
As a Systems Engineering Apprentice you will be enrolled onto the Level 6 Applied Professional Engineering Programme at Warwick University, following the Product Design and Development Standard. Delivered via a blended learning model, this programme combines the best of both with on campus delivery (6 block weeks per year) plus virtual coaching and online resources.
The first two years on programme will be common across all pathways and will provide a broad engineering skill set including mechanical, electrical, electronic, materials and design, plus computational.
In Year 3 and Year 4 learners will move to their specialist pathway. For the duration of this 4 year programme you will combine university studies with practical application, working within our Systems function in Crawley.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- 5 GCSEs incl. Maths & English (grade A*-C or 9-4)
- Maths and a further STEM subject (grade BB Minimum of 112 UCAS points)
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
Candidates will need a minimum of 112 UCAS tariff points at A Level including a grade B in Maths and at least 1 further STEM subject (Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Electronics) or an equivalent e.g. BTEC DMM. They will also require 5 GCSEs grade A-C (9-4) including English and Maths.
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 a company day and bank holidays) • 80 Hours Volunteering (first two years) • Discount Portal • Health Care Cash Plan
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
You will become a system engineer within the system function.
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 VAC1000283208.
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Closes on Sunday 16 February
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