Job Description:Start date: September 2025Location: Filton, BristolDuration: 4 years and 3 monthsUniversity: Weston CollegeDegree: Engineering Manufacturing Technician Level 4 qualificationApplication closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity! Please note
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Quality Engineering Technical Apprenticeship

Airbus • 
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Position Type: Permanent
Job Description:

Job Description:

Start date: September 2025

Location: Filton, Bristol

Duration: 4 years and 3 months

University: Weston College

Degree: Engineering Manufacturing Technician Level 4 qualification

Application closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity! Please note we will close adverts as soon as we receive sufficient applications.

Benefits:

Salary: 21,507

35 hours per week //  Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays // Pension // Success share // Plus many more flexible benefits!

About us: 

Launch an exciting career by joining our Airbus Apprenticeship programme. Our Apprentices receive industry-leading training and support to gain the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to enable them to make an immediate contribution within the aerospace industry.


Quality Engineering is a transnational team providing quality assurance as part of Airbus Commercial Aircraft to develop designs and technologies for both our new aircraft programmes and the development of our existing products. 

We work closely alongside our engineering teams to assure our products comply with all the regulatory requirements, maintain safety standards, and safeguard Airbus’s reputation.

An apprenticeship in Quality Engineering will give you the opportunity to work across all the Airbus Commercial Aircraft programmes. You will gain a working knowledge of the development, production and in-service processes used to create passenger aircraft, freighters and private jets. Starting your career in Quality Engineering provides a wide breadth of experience giving you a solid foundation for progression throughout Airbus.

What you will be doing:

From the very start of your apprenticeship, you will spend two days a week working within the quality engineering teams at the Airbus facility at Filton (Bristol). The rest of the time you will study with Weston College towards your Engineering Manufacturing Technician Level 4 qualification.

In second year and beyond, you will progressively spend less time at college and more time engaged in projects and activities within the business.


Throughout your apprenticeship you will complete a number of placements within quality engineering and other related functions. You will undertake various quality assurance activities such as Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), root cause analysis, problem solving, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), big data analysis and design assurance.
 

You will gain an excellent understanding of how quality engineering contributes to the successful design and delivery of modern commercial airliners. You will gain experience of working as part of a large multi-disciplinary transnational team engaged in the forefront of aerospace engineering. You will learn how to put into practice the latest quality methods and make use of the most modern digitalisation tools.

Requirements:

In order to be eligible to this apprenticeship, you must have a minimum of:

  • 3 A Levels A to C which must include Maths OR one Science related subject

OR

  • Access to Higher Education Diploma

OR

  • Level 3 Vocational Equivalent subject to validation

AND

  • GCSE Maths and English Language – Minimum of Grade 4/C

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

  • Integrity

  • Collaboration

  • Attention to detail

  • Intuition and inquisitiveness

  • Persistency

  • Willingness to learn and develop yourself

  • Submit your CV including all your grades and if they are predicted or achieved

  • Submit a Cover Letter explaining why you would like to work as a quality engineer for Airbus

Important Information:

GRADES: If you are on predicted grades, your offer will be conditional to achieving the required grades before the apprenticeship start date.

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance OR You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check). 

Our apprenticeship roles do not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas & Immigration to enable sponsorship of migrant workers.

Contact:

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; additional time for written exercises; auxiliary aids; room layout; dietary requirements etc. If you wish to discuss this further please contact via email apprentices&64;airbus.com. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Operations Limited

Employment Type:

Apprenticeship

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Experience Level:

Entry Level

Job Family:

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom&64;airbus.com.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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