Early Careers
Our vision is to be the world’s leading studio partner and our people are at the heart of our business. We believe developing your skills and talent will help us to build the long-term success of our business and to sustain our industry.
Early Careers
Pinewood is passionate about welcoming new talent into the industry. There is a place at Pinewood for those whose professional career is just beginning, or who are changing paths later in life.
We offer a range of apprenticeships across various departments and work with selected universities to offer year-long University industry placements within our Post Production team. We also partner with several organisations focused on bringing new talent into the industry such as the BFI Film Academy, Into Film and ScreenSkills. We’ve also introduced the ‘Behind the Screen’ placement programme which is designed to help people who are currently out of work take their first step into the world of film.
Continue to grow
Our Career Development Framework provides structure to manage your career, demonstrating how you can progress at Pinewood both upwards or by developing your skills in role.
In addition, we support our people with their professional accreditations, qualifications and a to develop a variety of transferrable skills. We’re proud to support our employees’ continuous development and promote opportunities for mentoring, secondments as well as supporting professional and degree-level apprenticeships for new and existing employees.
ScreenSkills
To uphold the UK Creative Industries’ first-class reputation, we work closely with ScreenSkills who support the industry to ensure a constant flow of skills and talent.
ScreenSkills, is the industry-led skills body for the UK’s screen industries – animation, film, games, television including children’s TV and high-end drama, VFX and immersive technology.
Screenskills website
Further training providers based at our global Studios can be found On The Lot.Visit on the lot
Apprenticeships
As an apprentice, you would gain invaluable experience working alongside our highly skilled teams whilst receiving formal training and earning a qualification. You’d be a permanent employee, receiving a salary, annual leave and access to all of our employee benefits.
At the end of their courses, our apprentices continue their development with Pinewood and we help to provide future support for a successful career in the creative industries.
To hear about upcoming opportunities, sign up below.
Just so you know, Pinewood does not employ anyone, either as apprentices or otherwise, to work directly in film or television production. Productions that use our facilities tend to employ their own staff. For more information please read our Career FAQs.
