Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world-class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century. The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels.
Annual wage: Competitive
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Training course: Fire safety engineer (level 6)
Hours
Shifts to be confirmed
37.0 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 14 September 2026
Duration: 5 Years
Positions available: 1
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
Fire and Explosion Engineers work with Product Safety, they ensure adequate prevention of fire hazards through robust design and work with a wide range of engineering stakeholders.
The team ensures fire incidents can be detected and recovered to a safe state (e.g. through application of firefighting systems), ensuring on board personnel can escape to a place of safety and that submarine systems are able to withstand such events safely.
The explosive atmosphere safety branch of Product Safety also ensures that our manufacturing facilities across the submarines site are safe and comply with explosive atmosphere regulations.
BAE Systems
1st Floor, Main Shipyard Offices
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA14 1AF
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE
Fire safety engineer (level 6)
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
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Please be aware of qualification entry criteria when applying for this role. This is clearly displayed on the advert under the qualification requirements section. To be eligible for the role, you must meet these entry requirements.
At BAE Systems, we provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. We employ a skilled workforce of more than 93,000 people in around 40 countries. Working with customers and local partners, we develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure.
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts.
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
Approximately 95% of apprentices choose to stay on with us. As a global business, there are a world of opportunities – whether you decide to stay in the UK, or explore an overseas role.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000041.
Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
