Product Support Engineering Apprentice

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) is looking for a Product Support Engineering Apprentice to support new business opportunities and existing product platforms, mainly fixed and rotor wing aircraft.

At Boeing, we are innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you will learn and grow; contributing to work that shapes the world. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) is a subsidiary of the Boeing Company and currently employs over 2,400 people in the UK. We are responsible for delivering several exciting contracts to our UK defence customers including new capabilities like the E-7 AEW&C and the P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Autonomous Systems, C4ISR Services, Support for the Chinook & Apache Fleets, Logistic Information Services and Training Services and are very much in a growth phase.

Boeing Defence UK engineering function operates a matrix organisation consisting of engineering departments that deliver technical skills, expertise and products into our programmes. This role will be in the Product Support Engineering Department. The Department consists of the following technical areas:

• Reliability Centred Maintenance Analysis

• Reliability and Maintainability

• Logistic Support Analysis

• Engineering Data Exploitation

• Obsolescence Management

• Technical Publications

• Integrated Logistic Support Engineering

• Continuing Airworthiness Management Support Service

As a Product Support Engineer you would be called upon to support and integrate one or more of the Product Support disciplines, this will call upon your training and experience to review engineering data, conduct fleet data analysis, identify and act upon the impact and effect of engineering data analysis across the team and be accountable for building out core capabilities to identify opportunities to provide enhancements to improve Product Support and Platform performance. You will report to the BDUK Support Engineering Manager whilst being technically supported by your capability or program Lead and other specialists within the department.

In your role, you shall:

• Work in a team and carry out the execution of contracted Product Support work

• Provide analytical capability to transform information and data

• Collaborating with other Engineering disciplines and the other Stakeholders, to ensure consistency of working methods and activities across all projects

• Conduct specialist tasks in the Product Support discipline you are employed within

• Coordinate, monitor, establish Key Performance Indicators and report status of Product Support activities

Aside from your technical work you there is the potential to support company initiatives, for example, quality improvements, promoting a safety culture, mentoring and coaching, STEM outreach and a number of focus projects to support the growth of the company and its employees.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

The preferred candidate will have most of the following, with some considered essential:

• 3 A-levels or equivalent grade A*-C, and 5 GCSEs (grade 9/A* - 4/C) including Math’s and English

• Essential to be able to obtain UK Security Clearance

• A clear communicator with a can-do attitude who has the drive, commitment and passion to continuously improve the quality of service

PLEASE NOTE:
• The successful candidate will be expected to undergo an Intrusive Security Clearance Process, which will require 5 years uninterrupted residency in the UK prior to applying.
• We do not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Applications for this position will be accepted until Feb. 15, 2026

Export Control Requirements:

This is not an Export Control position.

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Security Clearance

This position requires the ability to obtain a BPSS clearance.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

Not a Shift Worker (United Kingdom)

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.

Experience Level
Individual Contributor
Contingent Upon Program Award
No, this position is not contingent upon program award

Schedule
Full time

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.