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Mechanical Maintenance Apprenticeship
Your mission
At AWE, mechanical maintenance covers a wide range of essential roles that keep our operations running safely and efficiently.
As an apprentice, you’ll gain hands-on experience working with pressurised systems like steam, compressed air, and gases, while servicing equipment such as vacuum pumps, HVAC systems, mechanical drives, and heat transfer units. You’ll also learn how to maintain specialist tools used in the processing of nuclear and explosive materials.
THE QUALIFICATIONS YOU’LL NEED
Five GCSE’s at Grade 4/C or above to include Maths and English.
You’ll need to be a British Citizen for security clearance.
WORK PATTERN
You’ll be based at our Aldermaston or Culham site with one day a week off-site at college.
At AWE, we operate on a nine-day fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
SKILLS TO DEMONSTRATE
• Attention to detail
• Patience when approaching complex tasks
• Good communication skills
• The ability to follow instructions
• IT skills
Your journey
In your apprenticeship, you’ll build the foundations of a career that matters. During the Foundation phase, based at our Skills Academy, you’ll learn how to select and use tools correctly, manufacture test pieces, and carry out maintenance tasks in a simulated environment.
After around 18 months, you’ll move into the Consolidation phase, joining site-based Mechanical Maintenance teams where you’ll put your skills into practice in real-world settings, working on the equipment that keeps our mission moving.
Think you’ve got what it takes?
This role could be a great fit if you’re naturally curious about how things work and enjoy solving practical problems.
You might find it especially rewarding if you’re interested in understanding mechanical assemblies, heating and cooling systems, and how rotating equipment operates and is maintained.
Want to find out more?
Applications are currently closed.
You can register your interest and we will reach out to you when we reopen.