Description
Job title: Apprentice Control Systems Maintenance Technician
Location: Radway Green
Salary: Starting from £18,023 with annual progression through the scheme duration.
What you’ll be doing:
Aid design, implementation and maintenance of processes to optimise productivity
Ensuring manufacturing plant and equipment is running efficiently while meeting quality and safety standards
Finding creative solutions to problem, assisting with preventive maintenance plans, analysing processes and help in making improvements in a highly complex and varied manufacturing site
Designing and developing new controls systems
Testing, maintaining and modifying existing systems
Analysing data and presenting findings
Fault diagnosis of PLC and SCADA systems
Working with design engineers and operational functions
Analysing systems and processes to implement improvements
What qualification will you get?
The qualification you will achieve is:
Engineering maintenance technician – single discipline / Skills England
To achieve this qualification, you will be expected to attend the state of the art Academy for Skills and Knowledge (ASK) in Samlesbury 3 days each week during the first year, transport is provided.
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 Maths & English & a Science / Technical Subject
Start date:
07/09/2026