Description
Job title: Apprentice Mechanical Maintenance Technician
Location: Glascoed
Salary: Starting from £18,023 with annual progression through the scheme duration.
What you’ll be doing:
⦁ You’ll be involved in working from engineering drawings, using data and documentation to carry out the manufacture, installation, testing, commissioning, fault diagnosis and maintenance of process equipment, i.e. mechanical, electrical, electronic, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), hydraulic and pneumatic equipment. This can range between utility and service distribution and equipment to highly automated munition manufacturing equipment.
⦁ You will be involved in fault finding, planned maintenance and testing on the electrical and mechanical systems for site.
⦁ Fault finding on energised systems, i.e. electrical, robots, servo drives, hydraulics and pneumatics.
⦁ Planned maintenance on electrical and mechanical equipment.
⦁ Planned maintenance on ATEX equipment (ATEX means equipment certified safe to use in an explosive environment).
⦁ Fault finding and programming on PLCs.
⦁ Energy saving projects.
What qualification will you get?
Engineering Manufacture | ACW – Website
To achieve this qualification, you will be expected to attend the Coleg Gwent Crosskeys campus.
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 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 realise 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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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. Click here for more information on national security vetting levels.
Qualification requirements
5 GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade 9-4 / A*-C which must include English (or Welsh First Language) & a Science / Technical Subject, and a Maths GCSE or equivalent at grade 9- 5/A*-B (we cannot accept Maths Numeracy)