Business Degree Apprentice -Material Controller

Business Degree Apprentice – Material Controller

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Job Description

Business Degree Apprentice (Material Controller)

The opportunity

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4 years 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 a best start to your career. We offer competitive entry salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, with salary increases as you progress.

We support helping you settle in to your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Apprentice 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.

The Apprenticeship

The Leonardo Business Apprenticeship is structured around a programme of placements that will see you move around the business over a 3.5 year period designed to give you as much experience of and exposure to an international business environment as possible. This will help you identify areas that interest/excite you and also give you a wider understanding of how a global business operates.

For the first two years you will rotate through placements, working within our Integrated Project Teams, you will gain the skills and knowledge to deliver complex projects, utilising strong internal and external customer facing skills to support project execution and delivery within the Electronics line of business. In the third year of your programme you will move back into Material Controls for your final placement.

You will also attend university on a day release basis to complete your Chartered Manager Apprenticeship (ST0272) which includes a BA (Hons) Business and Management degree. Through your work placements you will record learning activities and evidence to show your competency in set criteria and in your final placement you will complete a project which forms part of your degree.

During your apprenticeship, you will

• Grow your knowledge of an engineering business and what the roles of our business support colleagues are by being part of our Integrated Project Teams.
• Develop key skills in a business support role, understanding key processes and technologies.
• Support early careers activities – our apprentices have the opportunity to work as STEM ambassadors in schools, colleges and universities.

Within the Material Control department, you will continue learning and building on the aforementioned experience. This involves being within close proximity of the repairs facilities and hardware on a daily basis, and being part of a collaborative team working towards optimal turnaround times agreed with customers. If this interests you at all, please read on for some of the role breakdown.

Activities

• Work on innovative and exciting projects within IPT (integrated project teams).
• Attend and contribute to project related meetings.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across the business.
• Utilise industry wide approved software, including SAP and Microsoft Office applications.
• Organise own workload to ensure time is utilised effectively.
• Review, release and manage service orders from when products are booked in all the way through to going back to the customer.
• Link any related drawings and Work Instructions to service orders.
• Advise relevant internal Stakeholders of any delays likely to impact achievement of the internal forecast date to the customer.
• Co-ordinate & liaise with all cross-functional teams.

Starting salary – £21,525

Qualifications

What we need from you

You Must Have (as a Minimum) The Following Qualifications

104 UCAS Points from A\’Level or BTEC Extended Diploma in Business Related Subjects plus 5 GCSE grades 4 – 9 or A*-C, to include Maths and English.

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Why join us

At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do, key contributors in shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

We offer a comprehensive, company‑funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work‑life balance.

Benefits

• Time to recharge – Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi‑days each year.
• Secure your future – Benefit from our award‑winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your wellbeing matters – Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee‑led networks championing inclusion and diversity.
• Rewarding performance – All employees are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Join in our success – Our annual Employee Stock Ownership Plan provides you the opportunity to own shares in Leonardo.
• Tailored perks – Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.

For a full list of our company benefits please visit https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/company-benefits

We are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people, communities and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

Be part of something bigger – apply now!

Primary Location – GB – Luton – Cap. Green 300

Contract Type – Fixed term

Hybrid Working – Hybrid

Seniority level – Internship

Employment type – Full‑time

Job function – Management and Manufacturing

Industries – Defense and Space Manufacturing, Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing, Computer and Network Security

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