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Airbus Defence and Space

Service Delivery Management Degree Apprenticeship

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Newport, United kingdom

Internship

18-11-2025

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Communication Teamwork Leadership Encryption Change Management Training Business Management

Job Specifications

Job Description:

Start date: September 2026

Location: Airbus Defence & Space Newport

Duration: 5 years

University: Swansea University

Degree: BSc (Hons) Applied Business Management

Application: We love your interest in joining Airbus! There is no limit on the number of positions you can apply for. However, please be aware that you can only progress in the selection process for one position at a time . We recommend reviewing all available opportunities and applying to those that best match your experience and aspirations.

Application closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity! Please note we will close adverts as soon as we receive sufficient applications.

Benefits:

Salary: £23,000

37 hours per week // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays // Pension // Success share // Plus many more flexible benefits!

subject to completing full hours prior to this

About us:

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2016, it generated revenues of € 67 billion and employed a workforce of around 134,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe's number one space enterprise and the world's second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Would you like to work on advanced high grade crypto systems and key management systems to protect Governments, Military, Enterprise Organizations and essential National Infrastructure from cyber threats? Airbus Defence & Space have exciting apprenticeships starting in our Cyber Security Division at our base in Newport, South Wales.

As an apprentice you will be trained in high grade cryptographic development, you will learn about our existing Ectocryp and CertSecure suite of products. You will join a team of highly skilled team of managers and engineers working to deliver the next generation of encryption devices. You will receive on the job training and a formal degree qualification all while being paid and accruing no course fees.

What you will be doing:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Service Delivery Management Apprentice within the Cyber Security Division at Airbus Defence & Space in Newport, South Wales and involves working within the UK Defence industry, requiring the applicants to be UK Nationals Only (No Dual Nationalities) and able to be security cleared to a UK SC level.

Reporting directly to the Service Delivery Programme Manager you will be working on advanced high grade crypto systems and key management systems to protect Governments, Military, Enterprise Organizations and essential National Infrastructure from cyber threats.

As an apprentice you will be trained in high grade cryptographic development and you will learn about our existing Ectocryp and CertSecure suite of products. You will join a team of highly skilled team of engineers working to deliver the next generation of encryption devices. You will receive on the job training and a formal degree qualification all while being paid and accruing no course fees.

As part of this degree apprenticeship, you will be studying towards achieving a BSc (Hons) Applied Business Management Degree Apprenticeship which will be provided by Swansea University.

You will learn how a Service Delivery Manager oversees a number of key functions within the IT department that enable the delivery of a high quality service to end users, and to ensure that ITIL Service Delivery processes are in place to meet business needs. Skills you will be taught will include:

The ITIL Framework;
Service Level Management;
Incident and Problem Management;
Change Management;
Communication and Leadership;
Supplier Management;
Customer Management;
An understanding of the technologies relevant to the Services being managed.

In return we can offer a great compensation package with annual profit share; a growing list of company benefits and career development options across our transnational, market leading company.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

The successful candidate will be subject to security clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs.

Requirements:

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