Apprenticeship Vacancy Details

What will the apprentice be doing?

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation.  We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

Expleo have exciting opportunities for graduate developing engineers. Based in Expleo offices in Bamber Bridge, Derby, or Bristol you will be assigned to a major defence project, where your skills will be developed within mechanical engineering and 2D CAD draughting.

There are opportunities to move between different types of work, with strong performers given the chance to enter a rotation program to advance their personal development and progression on approximately six-monthly moves.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Producing manufacturing drawings and releasing data following specific processes (don’t worry, we’ll train you in these)
• Applying the correct processes, specifications procedures & techniques with support from specialist teams
• Interfacing with our UK based Team to understand technical issues / specifications and requirements
• Delivering quality work while keeping within project budgets & time constraints and potentially changing requirements

Due to the restricted nature of the work, suitable candidates will need to be UK Nationals. We will require you to get BPSS and SC Clearance.

Security Aspects letter (SAL) SECURITY/MF/SA/MM/13515/20 dated July 2021 states the measures we need to apply while discharging our contract with our customer.  These requirements are flowed to us from the UK MOD. 

The 2 key elements are that all personnel we employ on this work must have SC clearance in place before we can give them access to our IT system used, and that everyone must be a British national and with no dual nationalities.

What training will the apprentice take and what qualification will the apprentice get at the end?

Level 3 Engineering Technician apprenticeship standard:

• An employer approved Level 2 Foundation Competence qualification
• An employer approved Level 3 Development Competence qualification
• An employer approved Level 3 Development Technical Knowledge qualification
• One day at DCG and the rest of the week at the workplace
• 10-week block release

What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship?

On completion of this apprenticeship, you could progress to:

• Engineer
• Project manager
• Leadership roles

Desired skills and personal qualities

Communication skills IT skills Attention to detail Problem solving skills Number skills Analytical skills Team working Initiative Non judgemental Computer Aided Design CAD Report Writing

Qualifications

GCSE or equivalent English and Maths (Grade C/4) Essential

GCSE or equivalent Science (Grade C/4) Essential

Other Engineering (Grade Any) Desired

Things to consider

Due to the restricted nature of the work, suitable candidates will need to be UK Nationals. We will require you to get BPSS and SC Clearance. You will need to be at least 17 years of age on the day you start employment to ensure you can gain BPSS and SC Clearance. The work is computer aided design – this requires good IT skills and your day will be spent mostly at a desk operating a CAD package. If we are interested in taking your application further, you will receive an email from a Derby College email address (@derby-college.ac.uk). Please make sure that you check your inbox as well as your spam/junk folders so you do not miss out on the opportunity to apply.

Employer

EXPLEO ENGINEERING UK LIMITED

https://expleo.com/global/en/

Address

2 New Park Place
Pride Park

Derby

Training provider

DCG

Contact

DCG

Apprenticeship Advanced

Engineering technician (level 3)