This is an opportunity to build invaluable engineering skills working alongside our experts as well as studying towards a degree. You’ll gain the kind of all-round experience that will enable you to choose where your interests best lie so you can specialise when the programme comes to an end. It makes this a brilliant platform from which to launch a truly fulfilling career as a Rolls-Royce Engineer.
The programme
Join our Engineering Degree Apprenticeship Programme and, while you're working towards a bachelor’s degree-level education, you'll also be getting invaluable experience. By the time you finish the programme, you'll have achieved your degree, and be ready on a practical level to start taking your development way beyond that.
What you’ll do
All the way through your degree apprenticeship, you'll be working alongside exceptional engineering professionals. You'll gain a firm foundation in engineering principles, before going on to placements in different areas of the company. These generally last four months each, which allows you to develop a real understanding of what working in that area means.
We recruit Engineering Degree Apprentices into Civil Aerospace and Defence. If we hire you into one of these areas, you'll enjoy on and off the job training, a competitive salary and opportunities to progress within our Engineering function. Once you’ve completed your apprenticeship, you’ll have a good idea of where you want to focus. For example, you could be a Design Engineer, Stress Engineer, Development Engineer, a Service Engineer or a Lifecycle Engineer.
What you’ll need
Three A-levels (or equivalent) at grade C or above in Maths and Physics, Chemistry or Engineering, plus one other subject (obtained or predicted). Alternatively, an engineering-focused Level 3 extended BTEC at DDM minimum. You’ll Also need GCSEs (or equivalent) at minimum Grade C/4 in English Language and Grade B/5 in Maths. Beyond your academic qualifications, we'll be looking for evidence that you're creative, an agile thinker and genuinely enthusiastic about developing a career in engineering. For example, we'd like to hear about an engineering project you've done at school or work, or a club you've been involved with or in your spare time. You'll be analytical, methodical and an innovative problem solver, as well as articulate, driven and a fast learner.
What you’ll get
Roles available at our Bristol and Derby sites
Who we are
Whether we’re building the world’s most efficient large aero-engine or supporting NASA missions on the edge of space, Rolls-Royce is all about innovation. We invest £1.4 billion every year into research and development, and file more patents annually than any other company in the UK. Working at Rolls-Royce means being part of a global team of 54,500 bold, curious pioneers, creating cleaner, faster, more competitive power. It means looking to the future, and shaping the world we live in.
Find out more and apply at careers.rolls-royce.com
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
You can learn more about our global Diversity and Inclusion strategy here.
Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to meet our planet’s vital power needs. Whether we’re building the world’s most efficient large aero-engine or championing electrification, we’re all about innovation. A career with us means creating cleaner, faster, more competitive power. It means looking to the future, and shaping the world we live in.
As an apprentice, you’ll have every opportunity to get involved in our ground-breaking work. We believe that diverse ways of thinking make for ever better ideas. That’s why we give people with bold, curious minds the chance to be themselves. With us, you’ll have all the support and training you need to bring your fresh perspectives to pioneering the power that matters.
You’ll also collaborate with some brilliant minds. We have 54,500 people across more than 50 international offices. They’re hugely diverse – but all share the same curiosity and desire to innovate. So it’s unsurprising that every year we invest £1.4 billion in research and development, and file for more patents per year than any other company in the UK. Pushing the boundaries of what’s possible is in our DNA.
If you want to help create innovative technology that helps solve some of our biggest environmental and societal challenges – and to achieve valuable qualifications along the way – we think you’ll love life with us.
Our apprenticeships span the breadth of our engineering disciplines. Whether you’re completing your GCSEs or A-levels or are in the world of work and looking for a change of career, they’re perfect for you.
Our Advanced/Modern Practical and Technical apprenticeships are for those who have, or are about to complete, GCSEs (or an equivalent qualification).
If you have, or are in the process of completing, A-levels (or an equivalent qualification), we’ve got a range of degree level apprenticeships: Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Engineering, Materials Laboratories, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Digital & Technology Solutions.
We’re reinventing our Business and Operations programmes to offer greater breadth and choice. We’ll be relaunching them all in 2021, so look out for details on our website in Summer 2020.
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Whichever programme you join, you’ll be working on live projects – projects that are helping to shape the world we live in. You’ll earn as you learn through formal training as well as via practical experiences working alongside technical or business experts.
Dependent on programme.
We’re a future-focused business, and as an apprentice, you’ll be an integral part of that future. A career with us means applying your curiosity, agile thinking and collaborative approach to the issues that affect our planet today – and helping us overcome the challenges we’ll face tomorrow. This is your chance to play your own part in pioneering the power that matters.