Boeing

Product Support Engineering Apprentice

GBR - Bristol, UK Full time
Product Support Engineering Apprentice

Company:

Boeing Defence United Kingdom Limited

Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) is looking for a Product Support Engineering Apprentice to support new business opportunities and existing product platforms, mainly fixed and rotor wing aircraft.

At Boeing, we are innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you will learn and grow; contributing to work that shapes the world. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) is a subsidiary of the Boeing Company and currently employs over 2,400 people in the UK. We are responsible for delivering several exciting contracts to our UK defence customers including new capabilities like the E-7 AEW&C and the P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Autonomous Systems, C4ISR Services, Support for the Chinook & Apache Fleets, Logistic Information Services and Training Services and are very much in a growth phase.

Boeing Defence UK engineering function operates a matrix organisation consisting of engineering departments that deliver technical skills, expertise and products into our programmes. This role will be in the Product Support Engineering Department. The Department consists of the following technical areas:

  • Reliability Centred Maintenance Analysis

  • Reliability and Maintainability

  • Logistic Support Analysis

  • Engineering Data Exploitation

  • Obsolescence Management

  • Technical Publications

  • Integrated Logistic Support Engineering

  • Continuing Airworthiness Management Support Service

As a Product Support Engineer you would be called upon to support and integrate one or more of the Product Support disciplines, this will call upon your training and experience to review engineering data, conduct fleet data analysis, identify and act upon the impact and effect of engineering data analysis across the team and be accountable for building out core capabilities to identify opportunities to provide enhancements to improve Product Support and Platform performance. You will report to the BDUK Support Engineering Manager whilst being technically supported by your capability or program Lead and other specialists within the department.

In your role, you shall:

  • Work in a team and carry out the execution of contracted Product Support work

  • Provide analytical capability to transform information and data

  • Collaborating with other Engineering disciplines and the other Stakeholders, to ensure consistency of working methods and activities across all projects

  • Conduct specialist tasks in the Product Support discipline you are employed within

  • Coordinate, monitor, establish Key Performance Indicators and report status of Product Support activities

Aside from your technical work you there is the potential to support company initiatives, for example, quality improvements, promoting a safety culture, mentoring and coaching, STEM outreach and a number of focus projects to support the growth of the company and its employees.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

The preferred candidate will have most of the following, with some considered essential:

  • 3 A-levels or equivalent grade A*-C, and 5 GCSEs (grade 9/A* - 4/C) including Math’s and English

  • Essential to be able to obtain UK Security Clearance

  • A clear communicator with a can-do attitude who has the drive, commitment and passion to continuously improve the quality of service

PLEASE NOTE:
• The successful candidate will be expected to undergo an Intrusive Security Clearance Process, which will require 5 years uninterrupted residency in the UK prior to applying.
• We do not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Not Applicable

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Security Clearance:

This position requires the ability to obtain a BPSS clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Not a Shift Worker (United Kingdom)