Job title: Degree Apprentice Project Management (Quality)
Location: Barrow – We offer relocation support packages for this role (Barrow-in-Furness based roles), subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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 Project Management Degree Apprentice (Quality), we will support you to balance your academic studies whilst gaining practical work experience; enabling you to link theory to real life working practice and develop your academic achievement by gaining a degree in Project Management.
This five-year degree apprenticeship programme will help you to build a strong foundation for your career and upon completion of the scheme, you will transition into an exit role in areas such as Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Quality Control and Supplier Quality Assurance.
Quality is integral to the design, procurement, manufacturing and commissioning of the Submarines, which protect our nation and our way of life.
The Quality function uses its ability to investigate, assure, analyse, problem solve and engage with teams right across the business to ensure that our products are delivered to the right specifications, and that our processes deliver the expected outcomes. As a Function, we are continually improving our ways of working to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
In support of your degree apprenticeship, you will get to experience placements across the many areas of the quality function such as for business and programme Quality Assurance, Supplier Quality Assurance, Quality Records, Quality Control, Quality Improvement, Quality Strategy & Capability; you will have the opportunity to spend time with each department to understand what they do and why they do it. All of these areas will give you the experience and understanding of the business as a whole, demonstrating the importance of the quality function.
As a Project Management Degree Apprentice (Quality), you will work closely with all areas of the business, across a broad spectrum of tasks. These could range from dealing with senior stakeholders working directly on the product, to liaising with suppliers and improving Quality across the business.
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 Submarines team:
Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century.
The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.
Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world’s most complex engineering challenges.
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 under represented 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
A minimum of 96 UCAS Tariff Points (240 point old system), or equivalent (excluding UCAS points gained at AS level).
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