Description
Job title: Quality Practitioner Apprentice
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Salary: Starting from £23,493 per annum, with annual progression through the scheme duration
What you'll be doing:
As a Quality Practitioner apprentice, you'll be joining a team of skilled Quality Professionals through a three-year learning journey to deploy effective Quality Practices within the Submarine sector. Therefore, fulfilling the contractual and regulatory requirements of our customers and stakeholders. This includes four main elements:
* Quality Planning (planning a delivery system for reliable outputs, such as implementing Quality Management Plans)
* Quality Assurance (providing confidence to stakeholders that Quality standards are maintained, such as conducting audits)
* Quality Control (verifying a product or service is meeting agreed specifications, such as carrying out inspections)
* Continuous Improvement (preventing recurrence of poor quality through analysis and addressing the root cause of poor quality, such as conducting investigations)
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & style benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Quality Team
The Quality function aims to achieve customer satisfaction by meeting contractual and regulatory requirements and continually improving the effectiveness of the Quality Management System. ‘Predict, Prevent, Protect’ is critical to our national endeavour and we are all personally accountable for the quality of what we do.
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 of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and where you will 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 Maths & English AND 72 UCAS points (or equivalent) (excluding UCAS points gained at AS level)
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