Electronics Engineering and Hardware Degree Apprenticeship

2 weeks ago

Newport, United Kingdom Airbus Full time
Job Description:

Start date: September 2025

Location: Airbus Defence & Space Newport, South Wales

Duration: 5 years

University: Cardiff Metropolitan University

Degree: BSc (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Application closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity Please note we will close adverts as soon as we receive sufficient applications.

Benefits:

Salary: £20,200

37 hours per week // Half day Fridays* // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays // Pension // Success share // Plus many more flexible benefits

*subject to completing full hours prior to this

About us:

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2016, it generated revenues of € 67 billion and employed a workforce of around 134,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe's number one space enterprise and the world's second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Would you like to work on advanced high grade crypto systems and key management systems to protect Governments, Military, Enterprise Organizations and essential National Infrastructure from cyber threats? Airbus Defence & Space have exciting apprenticeships starting in our Cyber Security Division at our base in Newport, South Wales.

As an apprentice you will be trained in high grade cryptographic development, you will learn about our existing Ectocryp and CertSecure suite of products. You will join a team of highly skilled team of engineers working to deliver the next generation of encryption devices. You will receive on the job training and a formal degree qualification all while being paid and accruing no course fees.

As part of this Degree Apprenticeship, you will be studying towards achieving a BSc (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering which will be provided by Cardiff Metropolitan University.

What you will be doing:

Our UK Apprenticeship Programme provides exceptional candidates the opportunity to master managerial and technical skills. Over the four year period it combines rotational placements with focused training and the possibility of European assignments as well as further personal development and the chance to build your professional network.

From day one, you will be assigned to a particular department and will be guided through the various placement opportunities that exist within your function, the wider business and even with customers and suppliers. This, along with training provided works to ensure you are ready and experienced enough to take the next step of your career following the programme's conclusion.

There are several departments that require electronic engineers; these include Production, Test & verification, and New Product Development. You will move around the different departments throughout your apprenticeship learning the key skills that each department requires, giving you a broad range of technical skills.

How to specify, perform, build, test, and document electronics hardware design for electronic system architecture. Skills you will be taught will include:
  • Construction of complex low volume communication products;
  • Maintenance of product assembly and test capabilities;
  • Repair and test products;
  • Design and repair PCB's to IPC standards;
  • Requirements capture skills;
  • Soldering to approved standards;
  • Schematic capture;
  • Computer Aided Design for simulation and design;
  • Performing in-house electronics design;
  • Documenting the design.

Requirements:

In order to be eligible to this apprenticeship, you must have a minimum of:
  • 3 A levels at grades A to C which must include Mathematics or Physics. Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate can be considered as a third subject.

OR
  • BTEC National / Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma at DMM or above which must include 6 Merits within Mathematics or Physics modules.

AND
  • 5 GCSEs at 4/C or above which must include English Language/Welsh First Language (Welsh grading) AND Mathematics/Mathematics - Numeracy (Welsh grading).

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following;
  • Genuine interest in electronic design and development;
  • Must be highly self-motivated, articulate, with good verbal and written communications skills;
  • Submit your CV stating your grades and if they are predicted or achieved;
  • Submit a Cover Letter stating your motivations.

Important Information:

GRADES: If you are on predicted grades, your offer will be conditional to achieving the position's requirements before the apprenticeship start date.

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance ORYou will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

Our apprenticeship roles do not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas & Immigration to enable sponsorship of migrant workers.

Contact:

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments to allow you to access and participate fully in the recruitment process. If you wish to discuss this further please contact via email apprentices@airbus.com. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
AIRBUS Defence and Space Limited

Employment Type:
Fixed term

Experience Level:
Student

Job Family:
Support to Management

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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