Higher Apprentice Submarines Supply Chain Frimley

Job Title    Higher Apprentice Submarines Supply Chain Frimley
Location    Frimley  
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 Incentive plan.

What you will be doing
As a Supply Chain Higher Apprentice your role can extend to a huge range of activities such as supplier management, financial analysis, contract law, and developing strategy to deliver goods and services. You’ll be on the contracts exciting journey from conception through to delivery and payment.

Having high quality, good value products available at the right time for our build programmes is critical to our ability to meet business deadlines. Supply Chain Higher Apprentices will have the opportunity to gain skills in every area of the function. The projects and placements undertaken by our Supply Chain Higher Apprentices are diverse. You’ll be rotating every 6 months into a new placement experiencing everything from: Procurement, Logistics & Transport, Strategy and Risk to Governance and Capability. These placements will also provide the apprentice with experience within different platforms such as Dreadnought, Astute and In-service.

During this three-year Higher Apprenticeship you will be responsible for researching, sourcing, buying, storing, maintaining and delivering equipment that goes onto our submarines. Moreover, this must all be delivered at the right time, for the right cost and to the right quality standards.
You will be part of a growing network of stakeholders within Integrated Combat Systems Supply Chain which is nearing 90 professionals strong and includes an early careers community. Working with many different stakeholders such as suppliers, legal, commercial, engineers, project managers of all grades and responsibilities will enable you to grow in confidence and capability.

Everyday skills you’ll develop with be broad, from placing purchase orders for multi-million pound contracts, helping to improve policies and procedures, to figuring out how to store the hundreds of thousands of items needed to build our submarines.  As a result, trainees develop an in-depth understanding of Supply Chain activities and processes, plus all the expertise needed to become an integral member of the future Supply Chain function.

Overview of business unit
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.
We have sites in Barrow-in-Furness, Filton, Frimley, Ash Vale, Broad Oak and Weymouth, and we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around. Join us and you’ll be part of something important; something you can be proud of. 

Benefits
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.   
Team 
Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. A career here means using your passion and ingenuity to defend national security with breakthrough technology and intelligence solutions. It’s 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, 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 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.

We provide the opportunity to get involved in projects outside of your primary remit. We encourage you to seek a stretch project in which you’ll gain different experiences. With our huge portfolio of products and our multinational presence, there are opportunities to get involved in something different around every corner. Additionally, we encourage involvement in community projects, STEM initiatives and support groups (called employee resource groups) which all provide valuable learning and development experiences that you may not have access to in your day-to-day role. To ensure we retain our talented people, we offer a blend of sponsorship, additional support in career development planning and a portfolio of high potential development programmes.  
Our mission is to build a strong, diverse, adaptable, and high performing work force that will develop and grow our future business. We believe that everyone has talent, and at the heart of our talent management approach our ambition is to be recognised as the UK’s top employer in the defence and security sector for valuing diversity and inclusion.

Export Control / Security
Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

5 GCSE A*-C or 4-9 (or equivalent) including Maths and English & 96 UCAS Tariff Points (240 point old system), or equivalent (excluding UCAS points gained at AS level)