Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4yrs. across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training, coupled with on the job learning that enables you to gain practical skills, experience and knowledge that sets up the best start to your career. We offer competitive entry salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, with salary increases as you progress.
Whether leaving School or College with GCSEs/Standards, A ‘Levels/Highers (or equivalent) or in work and looking for a new career path, you are fully supported as you rotate within the business working on real-time projects alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work. We support helping you settle in to your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Apprentice team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhance many aspects of each programme.
The Manufacturing Business Degree Apprenticeship is structured around a programme of placements that will see you move around the business over a 3.5 year period designed to give you as much experience of and exposure to an international business environment as possible. This will help you identify areas that interest/excite you and also give you a wider understanding of how a global business operates.
For the first two years you will rotate through placements working within our Integrated Project Teams, you will gain the skills and knowledge to deliver complex projects, utilising strong internal and external customer facing skills to support project execution and delivery within the Electronics line of business. These placements include Material Control, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Project Management, Finance, Operations Planning, Commercial and Procurement before going into your final placement within the Material Control team.
Within the Material Control department, you will continue learning and building on the aforementioned experience. This involves being within close proximity of the production facilities and hardware on a daily basis, and being part of a collaborative team working towards optimal turnaround times agreed with customers. If this interests you at all, please read on for some of the role breakdown.
You will also attend university on a day release basis to complete your Chartered Manager Apprenticeship (ST0272) which includes a BA (Hons) Business and Management degree. Through your work placements you will record learning activities and evidence to show your competency in set criteria and in your final placement you will complete a project which forms part of your degree.
During your apprenticeship, you will:
Grow your knowledge of an engineering business and what the roles of our business support colleagues are by being part of our Integrated Project Teams.
Utilise industry wide approved software, including SAP and Microsoft Office applications.
Work on innovative and exciting projects within IPT (integrated project teams).
Contribute to continuous improvement across the business.
Review, release and manage internal Production orders in line with the Production Plan/Schedule.
Expedite work through the Production areas on a daily basis. This includes the retrieval and delivery of hardware/kits.
Advise relevant internal Stakeholders of any delays likely to impact achievement of the internal forecast date to the customer.
Co-ordinate & liaise with all cross-functional teams.
Support early careers activities - our apprentices have the opportunity to work as STEM ambassadors in schools, colleges and universities.
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Qualifications
You must have (as a minimum) the following qualifications:
104 UCAS Points from A'Level or BTEC Extended Diploma in Business Related Subjects plus 5 GCSE grades 4 - 9 or grades A*- C or equivalent, to include Maths and English
The starting salary for this role is £21,525
Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Normally this is to the level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business which includes having a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in the UK.
Life at Leonardo
With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.
At Leonardo, we are strongly committed to supporting all our people, and, as society and the environment we work in changes, our approach to Inclusion and Diversity continues to evolve and adapt to reflect this. A culture of inclusion goes on to create an environment for greater collaboration, innovation and opportunities to develop as an organisation. If you are willing and able to commit to giving your best performance, you will find Leonardo a very rewarding place to work!
