Advanced Apprentice Fabricator

Location: Glasgow

Salary: Starting from £18,667 with annual progression through the scheme duration.

What you'll be doing:

• Fabrication and Installation Training – learn to fabricate and install sub‑assemblies and major assemblies using tools for marking out, thermal cutting, and welding.
• Structural Assembly and Equipment Operation – build components like shell plates, decks, and bulkheads, and operate overhead cranes, chain blocks, and hydraulic pumps to erect major units.
• Technical Drawing Interpretation – develop skills in reading steelwork drawings, engineering symbols, and conventions to guide precise fabrication and outfitting tasks.
• Health and Safety Expertise – gain extensive safety training in working at height, confined spaces, PPE usage, and dynamic risk assessment, progressing toward the Gold Passport standard.
• Core Fabrication Skills Development – master platework assembly, abrasive wheel handling, shipbuilding terminology, and welding techniques including MMA, Oxy‑fuel, and Plasma cutting, earning a tack welding qualification.

What Qualifications Will You Get?

• Performing Engineering Operations SVQ2
• National Certificate in Welding & Fabrication (Optional Higher National Certificate in Fabrication, Welding & Inspection)
• Level 7 Engineering Diploma Pathway B: Engineering Manufacturing and Fabrication

Benefits: As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Naval Ships Team: We design and manufacture naval ships, as well as their state‑of‑the‑art combat systems. We offer an array of associated services, including training solutions, maintenance and modernisation programmes to support ships and equipment in service around the world and the management of supporting infrastructure.

Trusted with the responsibility to deliver some of the UK's most complex and high‑profile defence programmes, providing our customers with the capability to fulfil extensive naval operations around the world and protect what matters most. As a business at the forefront of advanced engineering and technology, you can help us shape the future for maritime defence.

Why BAE Systems? This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible.

If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder, etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Export Control/Security: Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Qualification requirements: 5 National 4s (or equivalent) – which must include Maths (excluding Application of Maths) & English & a Science / Technical Subject.