BAE recruiting highest apprentice intake for years
BAE Systems’ has announced the recruitment of 265 engineering and business apprentices across its UK business in 2012, including 136 to work at its submarine building business in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria.
This is the highest intake at the yard for five years.
A large number of apprentices are needed to train as steelworkers, pipe fabricators, electricians and submarine designers.
Group Managing Director Nigel Whitehead made the announcement at the start of National Apprenticeship Week.
BAE Systems has around 1,000 apprentices in training in its three-year apprenticeship programme, which has one of the highest completion rates in the engineering sector and was rated Grade 1 – ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED in July 2010.
The number of apprentices required at Barrow-in-Furness – the UK’s only submarine building yard – is necessary to maintain skills unique to the maritime sector and to build all seven nuclear-powered Astute Class submarines.
The remaining 129 apprenticeship roles at BAE Systems are located in the company’s military aircraft business based in Lancashire, its maritime businesses at Portsmouth, Hampshire and Glasgow, and at its electronics business inRochester, Kent.
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