Degree Apprentice Design Engineering

Job Title: Degree Apprentice – Design Engineer

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Design Engineer Apprentice, you’ll turn ideas for products or processes into designs. Working closely within a multifunctional team, you’ll generate detailed designs using 2D and 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems. You will need to select and define suitable materials, tolerances, processes, and protective finishes, considering manufacture and lifecycle items.

Our military and commercial programmes require us to push our capabilities and technologies to the limits of what is achievable today. This raises many challenges for the system, as it must ultimately meet both our customer’s stringent safety requirements and bring leading-edge performance to give a competitive advantage wherever applied. Successful applicants will be part of a multi-disciplined engineering development team involved in the development, design, manufacture, and test of a number of new and legacy munitions products for UK and export customers.

Specific Activities Could Include:

• Design of special purpose jigs, tools, and gauges suitable for use with explosive items, including the design of pneumatic and hydraulic circuits, interlock systems, and intrinsically safe circuits for process control.
• Design of munitions and munition subsystems across a range of natures and calibres.
• Generating design schemes, assemblies, and detail drawings from either 3D solid CAD generated models, 2D CAD generated data, or manual techniques.
• Selecting and defining suitable materials, processes, and protective finishes required to manufacture and assemble components.
• Identifying and applying industry standards as appropriate.
• Generating build standard definitions for products and operating configuration control techniques appropriately.
• Carrying out engineering calculations as required to inform and support a proposed design.
• Supporting other functions in answering design/manufacturing inquiries.
• Gaining experience in placements outside Design Engineering such as production, project engineering, and maintenance.

Qualification Requirements

• 5 GCSE A*-C or 9-4 (or equivalent) Including Maths, English & Science or Technical Subject.

A minimum of 96 UCAS Tariff Points (240 points old system) (excluding UCAS points gained at AS level) achieved from either:

• A levels at grade C or above (or equivalent). One subject must be Maths and one subject must be in Engineering, Science, or a Technical subject.
• A STEM-based L3 Extended BTEC Diploma (which meets the required UCAS points) or equivalent.

Benefits

• Competitive pension scheme
• Employee share plans
• An extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits
• Green car scheme
• Private health plans
• Shopping discounts
• Eligibility for an annual incentive

The BAE Systems Land Team

A career at BAE Systems Land is rewarding work that truly makes a difference, and 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 realize 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 fulfill 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.

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 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.