2027 Asset Management Apprentice - Cheadle
THALES UK LIMITED
Stockport (SK3 0XB)
Closes on Wednesday 17 February 2027
Posted on 8 October 2026
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Summary
Turn your curiosity into a career. If you're passionate about engineering, eager to learn, and looking for an apprenticeship that combines academic study with exciting on-the-job experience, we'd love to hear from you.
- Wage
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£24,000 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
- Competitive salary of £24,000 per annum
- Performance-related pay uplifts
- Training course
- Asset manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 37-hours a week (8-hours Monday - Thursday, 5-hours Friday), exact working hours TBC.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 September 2027
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
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
About the Role:
This exciting apprenticeship will give you the skills, experience and knowledge to become a highly specialised Asset Manager within the Services team.
Your responsibilities may include:
- Support demand and requirements analysis
- Monitor asset performance
- Support provisioning activities
- Data quality, management and reporting
- Process and governance compliance
- Stakeholder engagement
- Continuous improvement
- Documentation management
What You Will Learn:
Throughout the apprenticeship, you will gain experience and knowledge in:
- Asset Management principles - understanding the asset lifecycle from acquisition and introduction to service, through repair, maintenance, support and disposal
- Asset data and systems - maintaining records, configurations, and using asset management systems and tools effectively
- Data analysis - identifying trends, demand, availability issues, risks and opportunities
- Provisioning and spares - how repairs and spare requirements are determined, loaded, tracked and reported
- Asset performance - using measures such as turnaround time, availability, resource and stock levels to assess performance
- Process and governance - understanding why standardised processes, controls and governance matter and how to work within them
- Reporting and presentations - turning data into meaningful reports, dashboards and recommendations
- Problem solving and continuous improvement - identifying root causes, investigating issues and driving improvements
- Stakeholder management - building confidence working with multiple stakeholders
- Commercial and customer awareness - understanding how decisions support contractual requirements and business objectives
- Risk management - identifying, assessing and escalating availability and support risks
- Professional skills - communication, organisation, prioritisation, teamwork and project management skills
Where you'll work
Ashurst Drive Bird Hall Lane
Cheadle Heath
Stockport
SK3 0XB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
Training course
Asset manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify the organisation’s context and constraints that affect asset management.
- Identify asset service and performance requirements.
- Estimate and calculate Life Cycle Cost (LCC) or Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for assets/asset systems.
- Use techniques to identify interventions for assets/asset system and estimate benefits.
- Apply multi criteria decision making methods to proposed intervention options.
- Select and use decision support tools to make asset management recommendations.
- Develop asset life-cycle plans including performance monitoring and business case.
- Classify assets, asset systems, life cycle stages and activities.
- Plan and manage projects.
- Assess asset health; condition and performance.
- Select and apply fault finding technique(s) to identify causes and effects of assets/asset system failures.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Assess and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks; identify mitigation options.
- Comply with legislation, asset management standards and company policies.
- Use information technology systems and processes: for example, asset registers, work management systems, word processing, spreadsheets, email, presentation.
- Collate and analyse asset/asset system data and information.
- Interpret and present data - qualitative and/or quantitative.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders – verbal, written and presentation.
- Identify the organisation’s context and constraints that affect asset management.
- Identify asset service and performance requirements.
- Estimate and calculate Life Cycle Cost (LCC) or Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for assets/asset systems.
- Use techniques to identify interventions for assets/asset system and estimate benefits.
- Apply multi criteria decision making methods to proposed intervention options.
- Select and use decision support tools to make asset management recommendations.
- Develop asset life-cycle plans including performance monitoring and business case.
- Classify assets, asset systems, life cycle stages and activities.
- Plan and manage projects.
- Assess asset health; condition and performance.
- Select and apply fault finding technique(s) to identify causes and effects of assets/asset system failures.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Assess and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks; identify mitigation options.
- Comply with legislation, asset management standards and company policies.
- Use information technology systems and processes: for example, asset registers, work management systems, word processing, spreadsheets, email, presentation.
- Collate and analyse asset/asset system data and information.
- Interpret and present data - qualitative and/or quantitative.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders – verbal, written and presentation.
Training schedule
Apprenticeship Programme:
You will study towards a Level 4 Asset Manager Apprenticeship with Teesside University.
Delivered over 2 years, via a virtual delivery model, this programme will introduce you to the foundations of asset management including optimising performance, minimising costs, driving sustainability, enhancing decision making and meeting regulatory standards. This apprenticeship has been accredited by the Institute of Asset Management.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
To be considered for this position, you must have the permanent right to work in the UK and be able to successfully complete and maintain UK Government security checks, including Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) screening and Security Clearance (SC), which is a government background check, before starting employment.
To be eligible for SC clearance, you will typically need to have lived in the UK continuously for the last five years. As part of the vetting process, you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, right to work in the UK, any time spent overseas during the last five years, and your employment and/or education history.
In addition, this role supports a UK Eyes Only programme and is therefore subject to government-mandated nationality restrictions. To satisfy the security clearance requirements for access to highly sensitive information, applicants must have been British citizens from birth and must not hold any other nationality. This requirement is determined by the UK Government and is a condition of programme access rather than an employment preference.
For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels
About this employer
Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.
https://careers.thalesgroup.com/global/en/search-results (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Holiday entitlement of 201 hours a year (plus a company day and bank holidays)
- Contributory Company Pension
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Hybrid/flexible working options
- Employee assistance programme
- Learning and development support
- Employee discounts and wellbeing initiatives
- Life Cover
- 80 Hours Volunteering per year (first two years)
Disability Confident
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.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Secure a permanent role from day one at the start of your apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THALES UK LIMITED
Thales Future Talent Team
futuretalent@uk.thalesgroup.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000058119.
Apply now
Closes on Wednesday 17 February 2027
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