Aerospace Engineer

On an aerospace engineer apprenticeship course, you’ll help develop aircraft components and equipment.

As an aerospace engineer apprentice, you’ll learn how to follow statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements and how to use and comprehend technical data and paperwork, including engineering drawings, reports, and computer-generated models.

You will design, develop, define, analyse, test, validate, and modify ideas and solutions to suit clients’ requirements while working individually and as part of an engineering team comprised of many technical disciplines. 

This apprenticeship’s requirements are designed to offer chances for growth and development. You will develop into an engineer who can take responsibility for your work’s quality, accuracy, and timeliness. Upon completion, you will get a bachelor’s degree.

What you’ll learn

On an aerospace engineer apprenticeship course, you’ll learn to:

• Comply with legal, organisational, environmental, health, and safety standards
• Use analytical methods (engineering mathematics – algebra, differentiation, function, geometry, trigonometry, statistics).
• Appy various aerospace disciplines and contexts, such as R&D, design, procurement, logistics, planning, production, quality assurance, inspection, testing, installation, commissioning, maintenance, life cycle management, decommissioning, and environmental compliance.

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

• 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) and A levels, or equivalent, for a degree apprenticeship.
• Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this before taking the end-point assessment.

Assessment methods

The End Point Assessment comprises two distinct assessment methods: 

• Occupational Competence Validation Interview 
• Professional competence assessment

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 6 Aerospace Engineer Apprenticeship standard can be found here.

Apprenticeship end point assessment

For more information about the End Point Assessment Process, please read the Institute of Apprenticeships’ information page.