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BAE Systems • Glasgow, United Kingdom

Early Careers Coordinator

Salary:  £36,000 per annum

Job Description

Job Title: Early Careers Coordinator (12 Month Secondment)

Location: Scotstoun (with some travel to Govan) – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £36,000+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

  • Support coordinating activities of the Early Careers & Skills programmes, for apprenticeships, graduates, and skills training

  • Plan and action as required all necessary supporting activities ensuring deliverables are completed in a timely manner to support key operational requirements, Recruitment, Induction and Internal/ External Celebration Events

  • Provide support to Early Careers delivery teams across Functions, Disciplines, and Management

  • Raise Purchase Orders to procure goods and services, receipting of materials

  • Support internal/external stakeholder engagement meetings

  • Support in meeting the demands of internal/ external quality monitoring and compliance standards

Your skills and experiences:

  • Experience supporting apprenticeship or graduate programme delivery, including recruitment, onboarding, and compliance activities

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines, particularly during peak periods like recruitment cycles

  • Confidence in engaging with internal and external stakeholder

  • Experience supporting quality assurance and audit processes, including preparing documentation and responding to compliance checks

  • Strong Excel experience

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Early Careers team:

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the Early Careers team providing the opportunity to play a role in supporting our team and our Early Careers population Apprentices and Graduates.

Based in the new £12m state of the art Scotstoun Applied Ship Building Academy. This is a key training facility for all the apprentices and graduates in the Company’s Naval Ships business as well as providing life-long learning and skills development activities for around 4,500 employees.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 18th August 2025

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Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 52 weeks with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Gym membership – Discounts available
Buy or sell annual leave
Share options
Salary sacrifice
Employee discounts
Lunch and learns
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Mental health first aiders
Health insurance
Family health insurance
Annual bonus
Shared parental leave
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Relocation packages
Neo-natal leave
LinkedIn learning license
In house training

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