2024 Manufacturing Apprentice

Year 1 of the apprenticeship focuses mainly on learning, spending 3 days a week at Yeovil College and 1 day in the workplace, following a set curriculum to give you the skills required for your future career Year 2 allows you to embed those skills and is predominantly based on site working with our experienced technicians, learning in role while continuing at college on day release to complete a BTEC and NVQ Year 3 will offer the opportunity to rotate through other business functions while you work your way to end-point assessment

Training:

As a Manufacturing Apprentice, you will enrol onto a Level 3 Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician Apprenticeship at Yeovil College over a 48 month duration.

Training Outcome:
Will qualify with a Level 3 Engineering Technician Diploma and be a permanent Engineering technician within the Thales business.

Employer Description:
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.

Working Hours :
37 hours per week on site (8 hours Monday - Thursday, 5 hours on a Friday). Year 1 Monday – Friday 37 hours a week, moving to 4 day week when 18 years of age after Year 1 is complete.

Skills:
Attention to detail,Problem solving skills,Analytical skills,Logical,Team working,Initiative