Intermediate Apprentice Ancillaries

Job title: Intermediate Apprentice Ancillaries

Location: Barrow

We offer relocation support packages for this role (Barrow-in-Furness based roles), subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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: 

Working safely at all times, complying with Health and Safety and other relevant regulations and guidelines, in accordance with training standards including mandatory SHE training.

During your apprenticeship you will gain many skills, you will also gain experience of working safely in accordance with operational requirements and associated Safe Systems of Work. 

You will be delivering services and support activities to operational departments such as but not limited to:

Confined Spaces 
 
•    Selection of correct material and equipment when setting up a confined space (extraction hose, Safety Air Monitor).
•    Using hand held atmospheric monitors to measure the confined space prior to entry.
•    Managing permit to work submissions on the confined space management system.
•    Routine inspections of confined spaces throughout ship yard, including access and egress arrangements and correct lighting.
•    Suspending any confined space that doesn’t meet the requirements.
•    Examination of/and replacing extraction to the confined spaces to ensure it’s suitable.
•    Understand and gain knowledge of gas concentrations.
•    Working to the process and Risk assessments including safe systems of work.
•    Managing calibrated equipment on a daily basis.
•    Selects and prepares consumables, materials, components and equipment
•    Checks the completed activity to ensure that all operations have been completed to meet the required specification.

Temporary Protection

•    Select and prepare consumables, materials, components and equipment.
•    Assessing and measuring specific items to ensure that the protective equipment manufactured to templates, aligns with the size of the item to be protected. 
•    Operating the sewing machine to construct the protection, then installing the protection onto the equipment. 
•    Working to standards set out to ensure quality is maintained throughout build.
•    Using various hand tools to manufacture protection required to protect ships assets.
•    Using systems of protection within high value locations of the product.

Abiding by workmanship standards and risk assessments.

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 Submarines team:

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.

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. 

3 GCSE’s (or equivalent) at A*-E or 9-3 including Maths & English