Description
Job title: Advanced Apprentice – Control Systems Technician
Location: Washington
Salary: We offer a competitive salary with annual increases throughout the apprenticeship and a range of employee benefits including, free higher education as well as access to the Company pension and share saving scheme.
What you’ll be doing:
As a Control Systems Technician Apprentice, you will operate in a modern manufacturing environment and be involved in fault finding and repair, planned maintenance, and operating the robotic equipment used to manufacture our products. Other maintenance support roles arise within the function, such as planning, logistics, and safety to manage the products through their expected service life.
Specific activities could include:
1. Fault finding on energised systems – including extra low voltage electrical.
2. Programmable Logic Control (PLC) programming support to maintain production processes and industrial computers (IPC).
3. Programming industrial 6 axis robots.
4. Planned maintenance on mechanical and control production equipment such as extra low voltage electrical.
5. Knowing, understanding, and carrying out the basic operations of a machine to operate the machine safely.
6. You will manage risk and repair the machine using common fault-finding techniques.
What qualification will you get?
Mechatronics Maintenance Technician / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans, and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The BAE Systems Land team:
A career at BAE Systems Land is rewarding work that truly makes a difference. As you tackle critical projects, you’ll work alongside a supportive team driven by a shared ambition to protect what really matters. At BAE Systems Land, you’ll find an extraordinary career where you can realise your true potential.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder, etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Export Control / Security:
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Qualification requirements
5 GCSE A*-C or 9-4 (or equivalent) including Maths, English & Science or Technical Subject.
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