BAE Systems aiming to recruit 800 apprentices in 2020

Homeland February 5, 2020

BAE Systems has announced plans to recruit 800 apprentices in 2020, the highest number they have aimed for so far.

This year’s Apprenticeship Week has just started and BAE Systems has announced ambitious plans to recruit 800 apprentices in 2020 across their Air, Maritime, Land, and Cyber divisions. The majority of the new apprentices will join either the Air or Maritime sectors.

This includes developing future combat air technologies for the Royal Air Force and working on the Dreadnought programme – a new generation of submarine for the Royal Navy that will replace the current Vanguard class. BAE currently employs more than 34,000 people in the UK and are one of the country’s largest employers of engineers, with around 66 per cent of staff employed in engineering or engineering-related roles.

Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, said: “It is absolutely brilliant that BAE Systems offers such a huge range of high-quality apprenticeship opportunities. These apprenticeships will be a great way to pursue exciting and rewarding careers in aviation, maritime and cyber security and will offer the chance to work on some of the UK’s most innovative and vital national programmes.”

BAE Systems invested more than £100m in education, skills and early careers activities in the UK in 2018 and have around 2,000 apprentices in training across our UK businesses at any given time, with around 95 per cent securing permanent roles. The apprenticeship recruitment window is open now and will run until 28 February 2020, those interested can find out more on the BAE website at https://www.baesystems.com/en/careers/careers-in-the-uk/apprenticeships/schemes and search through the firm’s 25 apprenticeship programmes.

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