2026 Industrial Process Engineer Apprentice - Templecombe

Are you passionate about engineering? Do you have an inquisitive mind? Are you looking for an employer who will sponsor you through a degree, whilst providing valuable and exciting on the job experience within a global, innovative and industry leading organisation? If so, read on to see what Thales has on offer within the Industry Team.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You'll learn on the job by getting hands on experience.

The role will develop your engineering skills to become a confident, positive and flexible industrial process engineer with well honed technical knowledge gained from both the academic commitments and on the job training. You will be part of a team that provides manufacturing solutions in support of our customers' requirements. This will provide many opportunities to experience the various aspects of engineering such as, defining and optimising manufacturing documentation, tools and workflows for manufacturing, performing manufacturing readiness reviews, contributing to the technological innovation to reduce costs and workflows, whilst guaranteeing the feasibility and reproducibility of the process.

As an Industrial Process Engineer Apprentice, you will develop the key skills and experience in the following:

• Develop an understanding of the required behaviours and codes of practice of a professional engineer
• Understanding complex systems by working on different tasks on on going projects
• Assessing Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) of products by reviewing the product maturity with project teams to identify and minimise risk
• Define, set up, prepare and optimise manufacturing processes and tooling for a defined area or product line
• Contribute to Health, Safety and Environment processes
• Define and optimise manufacturing documentation, tools, workflows for manufacturing and inspection based on the information supplied by upstream R&D engineering departments
• Contribute to the technological innovation to reduce costs and workflows, whilst guaranteeing the feasibility and reproducibility of the process
• Attend Material Review Boards and Configuration Control Boards on behalf of manufacturing, actively manage failures and changes
• Implement test & control plans for manufacturing equipment