Material Control and Planning Apprentice

at  Leonardo UK Ltd

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4yrs. across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training, coupled with on the job learning that enables you to gain practical skills, experience and knowledge that sets up the best start to your career.
Whether leaving School or College with GCSEs/Standards, A ‘Levels/Highers (or equivalent) or in work and looking for a new career path, you are fully supported as you rotate within the business working on real-time projects alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work.
As you would expect from a globally renowned Company, we offer competitive starting salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, so there is no need to get into debt. We support helping you settle into your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Early Careers team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhance many aspects of each programme.
Leonardo values people that look to always develop throughout their career and along with an eager willingness to learn, a successful apprenticeship with us involves a drive to deliver results, sometimes from your own initiative, a patience for problem solving, as well as a need to comply with safety instructions and clear process compliance at all times. We view commitment to programme and learning objectives very highly.
Leonardo is an international leader in electronic and information technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection, and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. We are a continually expanding company, offering exciting opportunities to talented individuals who want to work at the forefront of technology. We hope that is you and look forward to you joining the team!
Looking for a great start to your career in manufacturing, earning and learning on a professionally accredited, award-winning scheme?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Material Control and Planning Apprentice to support the manufacturing of our cutting edge products.
You will be working within a structured training scheme designed to provide you with all the knowledge and skills required to be able to plan and implement materials management in a fast paced, complex, manufacturing environment producing fantastic, world leading products.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:

5 GCSE’s (Grade 4 - 9 / Grade A* - C) in Maths and English
The salary for this role will be £17,850pa

WHAT YOU’LL DO AS A MATERIAL CONTROL APPRENTICE:

You will undertake a series of placements – covering, production control, material supply, logistics, master production scheduling and procurement – identifying opportunities and resolving problems as they occur. You’ll experience how we manage the flow of material from intial planning of the requirement through to the shipping of the finished product and how we ensure the process is as efficient as possible.
You will be working within world-class manufacturing environment and be supported in your development by our team of in-house experts.
You will become part of a huge community of apprentices working in Leonardo, throughout the UK.