Network Rail
Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme
Network Rail Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme 
Are you looking for a mission and a long-term career?
We are offering up to 250 young people a fantastic opportunity. You will earn as you learn, whilst receiving first class training to become one of Network Rail’s maintenance engineering technicians of tomorrow.
Not only that we’ve teamed up with the Royal Navy to give all our recruits a once in a lifetime experience. The 1st year will be spent at Europe’s largest specialist engineering training centre near Portsmouth. Years 2 and 3 will provide the apprentices with hands on experience near to their home location.
So if you’ll be at least 17 at the start of September, have a minimum of 4 GCSEs or equivalent grades A-C including Maths, English and Science and fancy the thought of living away from home for a year, read on...
Apprenticeships & Training
Network Rail is on a mission – a mission to give the country the railway it needs and deserves. And we need young men and women to help us achieve it.
Earn while you learn
Network Rail’s three-year Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme is a superb opportunity to earn while you learn. You’ll be paid to develop the skills that will help us to maintain, improve and upgrade every aspect of the rail infrastructure – track, signalling systems, bridges, viaducts, tunnels and level crossings.
Your training will be practical and comprehensive. From day one, you’ll be a Network Rail employee, enjoying all the benefits of being part of one of the UK’s most high-profile organisations. At the end of the scheme, you’ll be a qualified Maintenance Engineering Technician, helping us to keep the rail network moving.
Leaving home
You’ll also have a lot of fun on the scheme. The first year involves residential training in Gosport near Portsmouth. So it’s a great chance to move away from home, live with up to 250 other young people, and enjoy some outstanding sports and social facilities.
Ready to accept our mission?
So… do you have (or will have by September 2006) at least four GCSEs or equivalent at grades A-C including English, Maths and Science (or in Scotland, standard grades 1-3). Are you mature and independent enough to move away from home? And do you want a career in an exciting and ever-changing industry?
If you have already decided the scheme is for you.