Presentation by Katie Hassell (Airbus Defence and Space) given at the Reinventing Space Careers Event on 19 November, Royal Society, London. Uploaded with kind permission of the speaker.

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Airbus Defence and SpaceEarly Career opportunitiesCraig Cobb –Early Careers Programmes Manager UK

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Apprenticeships
Airbus Defence and Space offer two apprenticeships:
•Advanced Engineering Apprenticeship –3 years
•Craft Apprenticeship –3 years
Engineering Apprenticeship
•A structured training and development scheme
•1 full year in College (Portsmouth)
•The remaining 2 years include placement blocks in business departments including Design, Manufacturing, Quality, EVT, Materials and AIT
•You will also attend college in the final 2 years in ‘block releases
•At the end of the apprenticeship you will have attained an HNC in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering and an NVQ Level 3 in Engineering
Craft Apprenticeship
•A structured hands on training and development scheme
•Year 1 and 2 will include placements in key hands on Satellite manufacturing departments as well as day release at college
•Year 3 will include a single placement in AIT where you will gain comprehensive knowledge of the area
you’re deemed best suited and have excelled in

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Apprenticeships
Benefits
•Starting salary £9500
•Significant increases in 2ndand 3rdyear
•Fully subsidised learning package with Highbury College, Portsmouth
•Fully subsidised accommodation in Portsmouth for Stevenage based apprentices
Application Process
•Our Apprenticeship Schemes are now OPEN for applications until March 20th2015!!!!!
•All applications must be made online at www.airbusgroup.com
•Both our apprenticeships have start dates in September 2015

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Graduate Programme
•2 year programme
•Starting salary –£26,000 + £2000 welcome payment
•Yearly salary reviews throughout the programme
•Combines opportunities for placements in technical
or support functions with focussed training
•Graduates offered placements outside of their
functional area as well as abroad on detached duty
•Technical training
•Personal Development training
•All new graduates offered the choice of 2 project teams to work on whilst on the scheme –Campus Management (centralises the business university activities and relations marketing the brand and opportunities), ArcSat(technical project to design and build a small Cubesatthat mirrors the businesses engineering processes)
•Career mentors assigned to each graduate
•Graduate applications open to UK and overseas candidates
•All candidates must be degree qualified and be fluent in written and spoken English
•Graduates must hold a minimum of a 2:2 degree in any engineering discipline dependent on the requirements of the position
•No previous work experience needed
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Internships
Airbus Defence and Space offer Undergraduate and Postgraduate Internship positions
Undergraduate Internships
There will be 45 Undergraduate Intern positions available in 2015
All undergraduate internships are for Engineering positions and will be advertised throughout the year
Internships can be 3 –12 months in length
All Internship positions can be found at www.airbusgroup.com
Postgraduate Internship
Postgraduate Internships are purely for support functions including HR, Finance, Procurement and PMO
There will be 5 Postgraduate Internship positions available in 2015
These positions are 24 month fixed term contracts

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