Degree Apprentice Project Control

Job title: Degree Apprentice Project Controls

Location: Samlesbury Warton

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:

Are you seeking a new challenge? Do you feel like your strengths lie within areas such as planning and scheduling, data assurance and analysis, estimating, progress and performance measurement and project forecasting? Then an apprenticeship at BAE Systems in our Project Controls function might be the role you’ve been looking for! 

We, as a business, are looking to develop the project controllers of the future for some of the most complex national and international projects in the world. With a new organisational focus on our project controls community, a recently implemented career pathway and new roles within our Project Controls discipline, this is an exciting time to join the organisation.

The apprenticeship consists of work experience through five separate placements in varied areas of the business and together with a day release to a university centre to gain an honours degree in Project Controls.

Once you have successfully obtained your honours degree, you will continue in your role where you will build upon your new career at BAE Systems and have the opportunity to further your personal development. The Project Controls programme will develop, test and mature skills such as:

• Supporting the development/production and analysis of business data by using project control and monitoring tools, techniques, and processes.
• Producing and analysing data with accuracy, identifying and forecasting trends to meet targets, and managing projects to time, cost and quality.
• Providing support to project managers and control account managers to enable effective cost, planning and scheduling, risk, opportunity and resource management.
• Supporting the identification and management of risk and opportunities and learning from experience.

You will be an essential part of a team where crucial project controls activities are carried out. Through substantiating the learning within your university in this niche subject and skills acquired in the workplace with the support of your colleagues, you will be quickly become an expert in this unique field. 

Please note you must not book any annual leave within the first 3 months of your apprenticeship.  Following this, leave will be considered depending on the individual training delivery schedule and must be approved by your line manager.

What qualification will you get?

Attending college one day each week at an external academic provider’s facilities, you will not only study the Degree Apprenticeship but also for an Honours Degree in Project Control. 

You will study at Blackpool and the Fylde College, once a week during term time.

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 Air team:

The Air sector is a world leader in the aerospace industry with expertise that can be traced back to the very earliest days of aviation.

We design and build advanced training and combat aircraft; develop and work with the latest in cutting-edge technology; and provide support and maintenance for our customers across the world.

By joining our 23,000-strong global workforce, you could directly contribute to some of our leading aircraft including the Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35 Lightning II or our next generation of aircraft, in the UK or at one of our international sites. Whether you’re providing direct support to our customers, ensuring our programmes run to time and cost or influencing the design and manufacture of our products, you’ll be completing work that counts.

We’re looking for people who are passionate about delivering excellence and supporting some of the world’s most significant aerospace organisations.

We believe in investing in our people and inspiring continual innovation in our business. Developing and using the latest technology to compete with the world’s best is at the heart of what we do.  

Providing world-class training, support and development to our people means we inspire the very best talent to achieve great things.

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. 

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)