Locations: Canóvanas, Puerto Rico and Coppell, Texas
Applications for our Maintenance Technician programme are now closed. Please check back regularly for updates.
About the Programmes
Our Manufacturing Apprenticeships offer a unique full-time opportunity that combines training with hands-on, paid practical experience. As an apprentice, you'll not only receive a competitive salary but also work towards achieving a nationally accredited vocational qualification that can be carried with you wherever your career takes you.
Throughout the programme, you’ll work alongside expert journeyworkers and mentors to gain in-depth experience and tackle real tasks. This means being part of our journey to provide life-changing medicine to patients all over the world.
About Manufacturing at AstraZeneca
Within our Operations business area, the Manufacturing function is responsible for producing our medicines, everything from receipt of materials, through processing, and packaging. Our supply chains span the globe and include state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities across each stage of production.
As our global supply network embraces a digital transformation, there has never been a more exciting time to join our Manufacturing team. Across our sites, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technologies to bring more medicines to more patients, faster than ever before.
Explore our apprenticeships below and take your first step towards a successful career in manufacturing.
Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship – Coppell, Texas
During this two-year apprenticeship, commencing in November 2024, you will receive training in technical infrastructure maintenance, process validation, and improvement. As an Apprentice Maintenance Technician, you may carry out duties such as supporting the installation, maintenance, and repair of equipment, performing cleaning and 5S activities in line with Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), and documenting maintenance work orders in our Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
Manufacturing Operator Apprenticeship – Canóvanas, Puerto Rico
Through this 18-month apprenticeship, you’ll receive training in dispensing, formulation, coating, bulk packaging, and inspection manufacturing stages. As a Manufacturing Operator, you may carry out duties such as operating, cleaning, and assembling/disassembling manufacturing equipment, managing raw materials and intermediates to manufacture our products, and completing documentation requirements prior to, during and after the manufacture of a product.
Learning and Development
We’re huge advocates of early careers, and we all want you to succeed. Bring us passion and energy and we’ll support you all the way, encouraging you to fulfil all your potential.
Here, you’ll learn and earn in a supportive team, guided by expert managers, mentors and buddies who will help you develop the skills you seek and push and encourage you to get the most out of our programme.
In our highly energized environment, the potential for growth is immense. We want you to actively engage in your personal development and seize every opportunity to learn. And if you have ideas about how to improve our processes and performance, we want to hear them.
Essential Requirements
We’re looking for enthusiastic individuals, with a passion for learning and team-players who take the initiative and apply logical thinking and problem solving.
Please see individual job advertisements for specific educational requirements
Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity
AstraZeneca will not discriminate against apprenticeship applicants or apprentices based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, genetic information, or because they are an individual with a disability or a person 40 years old or older. AstraZeneca will take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and will operate the apprenticeship program as required under Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 30.
To find out more about our inclusion and diversity policy, click here.
