Salary: £25,061 for your first year, rising above £25,779 for your second year - and we’ll pay your training costs
Contract: Full time- 27 months
Location: Heathrow with some offsite learning in the Cotswolds
Start date: September 2025
Closing date: Sunday 9th March 2025
Assessment dates: Saturday 12th April and Sunday 13th April - keep the dates free!
We have 15 exclusive and exciting positions to join us as an Engineering apprentice. We believe that the best jobs make you fly. So, what better way to take off on your career (flight) path than with a Virgin Atlantic engineering apprenticeship?
Our iconic fleet is made up of some of the youngest, cleanest, and most high-tech aircraft in the skies, and we’re incredibly proud of all our flying icons. That’s why we’re seeking amazing apprentices to join our expert engineering team to learn first-hand how to keep them in tip top condition - so we can keep delighting our customers.
The course runs for two years, and on successful completion, you’ll graduate towards becoming a CAT A Licenced Aircraft Engineer. After that, it’ll be time to put all your training into practice. The sky really is the limit! Oh, and we’ll even support you in developing your skills towards gaining your CAT B Licence following your apprenticeship too.
It’s our mission to empower everyone to take on the world, so we look for people from all backgrounds!
So, what is in it for you?
- You’ll be gaining a solid foundation in aircraft maintenance from industry experts - they really know their stuff… and you will too.
- Work alongside our amazing engineering team on our fleet of fantastic, class leading aircraft, while developing your technical and communication skills.
- Experience the day-to-day live operations at our Heathrow maintenance facility.
- Form relationships with your teammates in a dynamic and encouraging environment.
- Complete the programme with more than just a sense of achievement, with progression to apply for a CAT A Licence in aircraft maintenance engineering.
- In return for your hard work, we’ll be on hand every step of the way to make sure you gain the skills you need to launch a successful career in aviation engineering.
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
- You’ll have a passion for aviation (and hopefully Virgin Atlantic too) with an interest in engineering.
- You’ll be able to demonstrate task orientation and communicating information well to those you work with to help things run smoothly and safely. Along with the ability to work in a team is important, we all have our own superpowers and can contribute in different ways.
- You’ll need to be task oriented and have good hand skills as you’ll be working on complex engineering parts - and each one of our hi-tech engines costs more than £30million.
- You’ll need to be comfortable with staying away and sharing accommodation with other apprentices during the offsite training programme. We provide modern facilities and will ensure you feel at home.
- You must not be in any other form of full-time education at the time of the course starting.
- You must have the legal right to live and work in the UK and be over the age of 16 on or before 31st August 2025 to qualify for the apprenticeship.
- You will have typically achieved 4 GCSEs at grade C/5 or above before starting the course, including Maths, English and Science.
If successful, your Virgin Atlantic journey will be look like this, application close date 9th March, applications will be reviewed by 21st March and you will be contacted by one of our team to be invited to assessment centre on 12th or 13th April at our Virgin Head Quarter (The VHQ) Crawley, outcomes will be delivered from 17th April with start date in September.
At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.