What you will be doing:

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During years 2 & 3 your scheme will operate with 4 days a week in placements and 1 day a week on academic leave for your degree. On your placement days you will be working on-site at our Wing Manufacturing Centre of Excellence where you’ll work within a range of different teams. The engineering disciplines you will cover include:

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• Design Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Quality Engineering

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Additionally you will gain vital experience working with other support functions such as finance, supply-chain, procurement, logistics and enablement. You will rotate throughout these 3 disciplines approximately every 12 weeks.

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Some of the work you could be doing includes:

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Design Engineering

• Performing design changes to improve Design for Manufacturing of our products, making it more efficient to manufacture and supporting Airbus to deliver for our customers;
• Supporting the analysis activities within the wing structures team on Static Stress, Fatigue and Damage Tolerance analysis utilising hand-calculations & Finite Element Analysis;
• Designing and analysing proposed solutions to support wing production as daily production support and project based activities.

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Manufacturing Engineering

• Work as a lineside engineer to support build issues with the assembly process, tooling and other industrial aspects;
• Work on future architecture and industrial development projects to improve the way we manufacture the wings of today and tomorrow;
• Develop new tooling and technologies (e.g. robotics, automation and 3D printing) to improve wing-build by reducing cost, reducing time, and improving efficiency.

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Quality Engineering

• Work lineside to ensure the quality of the product during build. Raise issues and manage multi-functional teams to resolve problems and improve the product quality;
• Work on aircraft modifications and future projects to develop quality control;
• Work within the testing and laboratory facilities to develop materials and processes of the future.

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Requirements:

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In order to be eligible to this apprenticeship, you must have a minimum of:

• 112 UCAS points, made up of A-Level Grade B minimum in Maths, and Grade C minimum in Physics or Chemistry, with a further A-Level/AS-Level/BTEC Diploma

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• BTEC L3 Extended Diploma in Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering with a minimum grade Distinction (D or DDD) which must include a Distinction in Further Mathematics

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• Access to HE - Minimum 30 Level 3 credits, with 15 in Maths and 15 in a Science or Technology subject

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• Baccalaureate IB - Minimum H5 grade in Mathematics, and a minimum H3 grade in Physics.

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• T Level - Minimum of Merit overall in Engineering & Manufacturing with an additional Level 3 qualification in Mathematics at B or above

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• Minimum Grade 4/C English Language & 5/B or above in Maths GCSE’s

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