Description Quick Overview Starting salary £29,440. Based at MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol, BS34 8JH, office attendance is required. Two-year graduate development programme. Specialising in Engineering. Entry Requirements: GCSE Maths and English and an Accredited Engineering Degree at a minimum classification of 2:2. Start date October 2025. Application requirements Please follow our graduate CV format guidance here. This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance. Please read all information in this advert thoroughly before applying and save it for future reference. What sets DE&S apart is the focus we put on you. We help you find your flair and then plan a flourishing career around what you love. Along the way, you’ll enjoy real rewards for the work you do, with competitive benefits and career progression. As a DE&S graduate, you’ll find real support to reach your potential – so you can specialise in your field. As part of our team, you'll benefit from plenty of routes for development, access to specialist training and funding for professional qualifications, and a circa 28.97% employer pension contribution. You’ll also have access to a wide range of employee networks, including the Women’s Inclusive Network, Race & Culture Network, Pride Network, Disability Network – and many more. A range of graduate career opportunities are available here at DE&S. We’re looking for talented, motivated, and skilled university graduates to become our Engineers of the future. By applying you will have a wide variety of roles for consideration. You will undertake various work-based placements within the Air Environment. These will include assignments within the DE&S Aircraft Systems & Platforms delivery teams, industry partners and at a Front Line Command organisation facing DE&S Aircraft Systems & Platforms delivery teams. Placements will support personal development, scheme completion and a pathway to application for professional registration at Incorporated Engineer level within 12 months of completing the scheme. Once you’ve successfully completed your scheme, you’ll be ready to join an aircraft systems and platforms delivery team and start your career as a professional engineer within the Air environment. With support provided at all levels throughout your career, we’ll help you reach your full potential as a Professional (Chartered) Engineer. Please note: DE&S is currently undergoing a design review and therefore the area terminology and your placements within them are subject to change. Initially, you’ll be based at our headquarters in Bristol but while you’re on the scheme you may undertake placements in a variety of locations across the UK. Hybrid working is available but attendance at our Bristol site will be required on a routine basis (as determined by your manager). Please note: Because of the classification of some of the information related to certain projects, some work-based placements may be open to Sole UK Nationals only. Your place of work will be MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol, BS34 8JH. You will be required to attend the office regularly, at the request of your Scheme Manager or Placement Supervisor. This attendance will be at your own expense and costs for travel or accommodation will not be reimbursed. Person specification It takes lots of different people and lots of different skill sets to keep the UK Armed Forces fully equipped and well supported. To be successful with your application, we’re looking for you to demonstrate your potential to succeed in a dynamic working environment. We’re here to help you find your speciality, so we hire for potential and train for skills. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are dedicated to creating a great place to work that reflects the diversity of the society we serve. By bringing together different ideas, experiences, and perspectives, we can achieve our ambitions, together. We’re proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to attracting, recruiting, and retaining people with disabilities. We’re dedicated to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and will make reasonable adjustments to support applicants with disabilities. If you need an adjustment during the recruitment and selection process, even if you feel you do not qualify for the Disability Confident Scheme, please tell us what you need when completing your application. Please let us know as soon as possible so our recruitment team have adequate time to consider your request. If you have any questions about reasonable adjustments, you can contact the recruitment team at deshr-etcoe-recruitmentmod.gov.uk You must hold the right to work full time in the UK and qualify for service under the Civil Service Nationality Rules without any additional immigration approvals. You must be able to evidence this at interview and it must not expire before the start of the scheme. If your right to work will expire while you are in employment, you must be able to reconfirm your right to work before it expires, without sponsorship, to maintain your employment. This role requires you to have lived (resided) in the UK for the last five years and obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance. The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating staff on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harms associated with second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Tobacco-Free Working Environment (TFWE) programme, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere, unless stated otherwise, in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. Those seeking, considering, or accepting employment should be aware of this requirement. Qualifications You must have or be currently studying to achieve the following qualifications by September 2025: Essential requirements: • GCSE Maths and English Language at a minimum of grade 4 (or equivalent qualification). and • An Aero-focused Engineering Honours Degree, as per the list below, at a minimum classification of 2:2 - Aeronautical Engineering - Aeronautical Systems Engineering - Aeronautical-Electrical Engineering - Aerospace Engineering - Aircraft Engineering - Avionic Systems Engineering - Military Aerospace and Airworthiness - System Safety Engineering - Environmental Management - Environmental Sustainability in Transport - Environmental Strategy Certain degrees with comparable titles will be considered if the module content is alike. You are required to list the modules, both mandatory and optional, that you have undertaken on your CV so that degree relevance can be assessed. All degrees must be accredited by a Professional Institution licensed by the Engineering or Science Council by September 2025. Please clearly state your achieved or predicted degree classification and the Degree Accreditation details on your CV or your application won’t be considered. If you are in your final academic year, you are encouraged to apply with your predicted grades. Evidence of the above qualifications will be required as part of your pre-employment checks before a formal offer can be made. CV Requirements Please follow the CV guidance here to enable us to better understand you as a person and assess your suitability for our scheme. We will be looking for your aspiration, engagement and ability. If you are successful at CV sift, then you will be considered for the next stage of our selection process. Personal statement –within the same document as your CV, please write a personal statement, within the range of 200 to 500 words, answering the following questions: 1. Why do you want to join this graduate scheme? 2. How have your qualifications and studies helped you to prepare for this scheme? 3. What else have you done to prepare outside of education, and why are these experiences helpful? Please clearly list your qualifications including your results or predicted grades, distinguishing between an English Language or English Literature qualification awarded. If grades are missing, we will be unable to qualify you against our entry requirements. You’re permitted to utilise AI (artificial intelligence) tools during your application to DE&S to support you in writing your CV and personal statements however, all information that is submitted must be factually accurate. For example, not using ideas and experiences of others (or AI) as your own. All presented information will be assessed at both the assessment centre and interview stage. Behaviours This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your behaviours during the interview selection process: • Delivering at Pace • Working Together • Communicating and Influencing • Making Effective Decisions Benefits Alongside training and development, you’ll receive the following great benefits: • £29,440 starting salary – with annual increments. • 25 days holiday a year, plus one day a year up to 30 days, eight bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday. • A market-leading employer pension contribution of circa 28.97 percent, and recognition awards. • Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible, to support your work-life balance (though some attendance to the stated site is required). • Use of our on-site gym, restaurant, and cafes. • A huge range of discounts including retail, sports, leisure, restaurants, gifts, days out, holidays, cinema, motoring, insurance, health care, gym memberships, and more. More information can be found below: • DE&S Little Book of Big Benefits: https://bit.ly/3FEb54v • Terms and Conditions: https://bit.ly/3yUwcM1 How to apply Application – 4th November 2024 to 2nd December 2025 Please complete an online application form and attach one document which contains your CV and a personal statement together. Please follow the guidance on how to create a CV for this vacancy and ensure all information is captured within your CV and not on the application form. The experience fields on the application form are not assessed, so please ensure your CV is complete. Should you encounter any technical difficulties submitting your application please take screenshots and email us DESHR-ETCoE-Recruitmentmod.gov.uk. Without screenshots of the issue, we may be unable to progress your application. Pre-Sift/Sift – January 2025 We’ll check that you meet the essential or eligibility criteria listed in this advert. Your CV will be assessed using a simple numerical scoring system against your aspiration, engagement and ability. For guidance on writing a CV for DE&S apprenticeships and graduate schemes, please click here. Assessment Centre – February 2025 to March 2025 The top scoring candidates will be invited to an assessment centre at MOD Abbey Wood, in Bristol. We’ll assess you through team exercises, an interview, and a presentation, aligned to our behaviours above. There will be no reimbursement of any travel expenses for the assessment centre. Provisional Offer – March 2025 Once all interviews have taken place, we’ll make provisional offers to the successful candidates and begin your pre-employment checks. Please be aware these checks can take several months to complete; however, we’ll remain in contact throughout the process. Formal Offer Following successful completion of all pre-employment checks you can expect to receive a formal offer and contract one month before the scheme expected start date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Apply and further information Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria Contact point for applicants Job contact : Name :DES Entry Talent Recruitment Team Email :DESHR-ETCoE-Recruitmentmod.gov.uk