Legal Apprentice (Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd)
TOKYO ELECTRON EUROPE LTD
FLEMING WAY (RH10 9QL)
Closes in 31 days (Friday 5 June 2026)
Posted on 5 May 2026
Contents
Summary
The current four-person team is looking for an individual who is motivated to build a legal career working in a close-knit in-house legal team.
- Wage
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£25,000 a year
- Training course
- Solicitor (level 7)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 08:30 -17:00.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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6 years
- Positions available
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Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The team’s work spans nine jurisdictions in Europe and Israel.
Semiconductor manufacturing is a globally critical industry, with TEL’s customers being household name companies. Significant training and development opportunities will be provided to the candidate, as well
as the potential for occasional business travel abroad. The required skills can be taught to the right candidate, as long as there is a good aptitude for learning and an enthusiasm for new challenges.
The responsibilities will be separated into the following areas:
- Support legal work for TEE across the UK and European business regions.
- Assist with reviewing and negotiating contracts.
- Advising internal clients about risks associated with different contracts.
- Managing files diligently using relevant software.
- Undertake legal research and horizon scanning.
Support compliance and company secretarial work for TEE across the UK and European business regions.
- Support internal clients on employment-related matters.
- Review legal and compliance team policies and documentation.
- Advise internal clients on policies, procedures, regulatory, and ethical standards.
- Liaising with third parties to arrange documents for notarisation and apostille.
Wider legal and compliance work – as needed.
- Deal promptly with internal client enquiries and correspondence.
- Arrange for the appropriate execution of documents electronically and by wet signature.
- Work towards relevant apprenticeship exams/legal qualifications as part of the apprenticeship.
- Occasionally travel to other TEE or TEL Group offices abroad as required.
Appropriate Training
Each person will go through an induction process which will provide them with background
information about the Company, the Industry, and the Legal and Compliance team’s function.
Required Training that will be provided by TEL:
- Induction to the company.
- Health and Safety Training.
- Legal and Compliance team procedures.
- Legal and Compliance software.
- Information security.
- General compliance training (Harassment, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery, etc.).
Where you'll work
TOKYO ELECTRON EUROPE LTD
PIONEER BUILDING
CRAWLEY BUSINESS QUARTER
FLEMING WAY
RH10 9QL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED
Training course
Solicitor (level 7)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Obtain relevant facts by effective questioning and active listening.
- Find, analyse, and assess documents to extract relevant information including recognising when additional information is needed , interpreting and evaluating information obtained, recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
- Recognise when legal research is needed and use appropriate methods and resources including identifying, finding and assessing the relevance of sources of law, interpreting, evaluating and applying research results, recording and presenting findings of research accurately and clearly.
- Develop strategies and solutions including an understanding of a client’s commercial and personal circumstances, their needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
- Provide advice which is informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis and identifying the consequences of different options.
- Draft documents from scratch and use precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
- Undertake effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings including: effective preparation by identifying and mastering relevant facts and legal principles, organize facts to support an argument or position, present a reasoned argument in a clear, logical, succinct persuasive way, make appropriate references to legal authority, comply with formalities, deal with witnesses appropriately, respond effectively to questions or opposing arguments, identify strengths and weaknesses from different parties’ perspectives.
- Negotiate solutions to clients’ issues including: identify all parties’ interests, objectives and limits, developing and formulating best options for meeting parties’ objectives, presenting options for compromises persuasively, responding to options presented by the other side, developing compromises between options or parties.
- Plan and manage legal cases and transactions including applying relevant processes and procedures to progress matters effectively, assessing, communicating and managing risk, bringing a transaction or case to a conclusion.
- Obtain relevant facts by effective questioning and active listening.
- Find, analyse, and assess documents to extract relevant information including recognising when additional information is needed , interpreting and evaluating information obtained, recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
- Recognise when legal research is needed and use appropriate methods and resources including identifying, finding and assessing the relevance of sources of law, interpreting, evaluating and applying research results, recording and presenting findings of research accurately and clearly.
- Develop strategies and solutions including an understanding of a client’s commercial and personal circumstances, their needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
- Provide advice which is informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis and identifying the consequences of different options.
- Draft documents from scratch and use precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
- Undertake effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings including: effective preparation by identifying and mastering relevant facts and legal principles, organize facts to support an argument or position, present a reasoned argument in a clear, logical, succinct persuasive way, make appropriate references to legal authority, comply with formalities, deal with witnesses appropriately, respond effectively to questions or opposing arguments, identify strengths and weaknesses from different parties’ perspectives.
- Negotiate solutions to clients’ issues including: identify all parties’ interests, objectives and limits, developing and formulating best options for meeting parties’ objectives, presenting options for compromises persuasively, responding to options presented by the other side, developing compromises between options or parties.
- Plan and manage legal cases and transactions including applying relevant processes and procedures to progress matters effectively, assessing, communicating and managing risk, bringing a transaction or case to a conclusion.
Training schedule
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Excellent written skills
- Spoken language skills
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Excel and PowerPoint
- Self starter
- Able to multi-task
- Able to work independently
Other requirements
- Strong A-level/IB results or graduate.
- At least 6 months’ job experience of any kind, e.g., office role, retail, customer service.
- Willingness to study and progress through Solicitor Apprenticeship / Solicitors Qualifying Exam qualifications.
About this employer
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
After this apprenticeship
Depending on candidate’s development and Business need, future prospects may include continued employment within TEL, career development, skill development and global opportunities.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000028993.
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Closes in 31 days (Friday 5 June 2026)
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