Engineering Technician Review

The First year involved solely learning in college at IPS international, the second year involved mixed college days and work placements at BAE itself to give you a range of job role examples, the third year involved actually selecting a placement you like and working for them full time doing other apprentice activities alongside including HNC every monday if you signed up for it.

You develop skills that are general to electrical engineering but also gain specific skills that are specific to job roles you participate in.

The programme has been very enjoyable, but has had its ups and downs.

The programme is well structured and always improving, there are always areas that you find could use improvement but the coordinators are very helpful to get them laminated out.

Support can vary, they do try to be as helpful as possible but it doesn't always amount to actually helping.

You can get a lot of aid when working towards your qualifications but it can get a lot tougher once you start your third year and it can seem a bit lacklustre at times.1

Without a lot of the learning i have undergone for my role i wouldn't be able to perform as well because i wouldn't have a grasp of a lot of the basic electronic principles.

There are lots of events and activities that you can participate in, however they aren't really pushed upon you or put out to be known so it is best to ask about.

Yes

The pay is good for the work and the education is helpful at gaining the qualifications and skills for roles later on.

Keep an open mind because thing change regularly, often times "improvements" are put in place but are dropped due to them not working and there is a lot of back and forth trying to make the experience great for everyone.