2027 Electronics Engineer Apprentice - Templecombe

About the Role:

An Electronics Engineering Apprenticeship at Thales is a hands-on entry route into engineering, where you learn electronics design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting while working alongside qualified engineers on real programmes. The exact scope can vary by team, the role centres on building and validating electronic solutions.

What You Will Do:

• Support electronics design and development
• Assisting with circuit design activities, component selection, schematic/layout reviews, or adapting existing designs.
• Build and integrate hardware
• Working with breadboards/prototypes and progressing to production-relevant hardware (e.g., assembling modules, wiring, integrating sub-systems)
• Test and verify equipment
• Using test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, multimeters, signal generators) to validate functionality against requirements, debug faults, and document results
• Troubleshoot and problem-solve
• Investigating issues found during lab testing, system integration, or trials, then helping implement fixes or process improvements.
• Document engineering work
• Writing test reports, maintaining records, updating documentation, and contributing to engineering reviews
• Work in a safety/quality-focused environment
• Following procedures, configuration control practices, and quality standards relevant to Thales and its programmes.

Training Degree Apprenticeship Programme:

You will study towards a Level 6 BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree Apprenticeship with Exeter University. In your first year you will be given a broad theoretical and practical knowledge across all core engineering disciplines, before progressing onto increasingly advanced topics later in the course. Years one and two provide core fundamental knowledge of engineering principles, as well as applying mathematics to engineering problems. Years three and four are spent applying your knowledge to engineering problems. You will complete a Technical Report and Presentation in the final year: an opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills to devise an engineering solution at a professional level in an area of engineering study that aligns to your role at Thales. By the end of the programme, you will have achieved a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as a Level 6 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree Apprenticeship.

Programme structure:

Throughout the four-year programme, you will combine university study with practical workplace experience, developing both academic knowledge and professional engineering skills. Lectures and workshops are delivered through a series of 2-week blocks spaced throughout your degree apprenticeship. Alongside campus taught lecturers, you will have access to digital resources and discipline experts to support your studies.

What happens at the end:

Secure a permanent role from day one at the start of your apprenticeship.

Skills:

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Team working
• Creative

Qualifications:

• GCSE Must include English and Maths (grade 4-9 (A-C)) - essential
• A Level Maths and Science subject (grade B) (grade 3 A Levels at ABB) - essential

Key details:

• Wage: £24,000 a year
• Working week: Monday - Friday, 37 hours a week (8 hours Monday - Thursday, 5 hours Friday).
• Hours: 37 hours per week
• Duration: 4 Years
• Start date: 2027-09-06
• Closing date: 2027-02-17
• Apprenticeship standard: Electrical and electronic engineer (degree) (level 6)
• Training provider: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

About the employer:

Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.