Manufacturing Apprentice

Overview

Manufacturing Apprentices play a vital role in the Manufacturing Services Division, contributing to a range of areas such as assembly, machining, and maintenance. Your role will be tailored to your skills and interests, ensuring a hands‑on, practical experience.

• L3 Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician
• L3 Machining Technician
• Maintenance Technicians:
  This apprenticeship enables apprentices to gain experience in the maintenance and upkeep of equipment across all manufacturing sites. Some of the tasks include locating and rectifying faults on plant and equipment, inspecting and maintaining appropriate plant and equipment to meet operational requirements.
• Machining Technicians:
  This apprenticeship enables apprentices to gain experience in and support the production of machined parts that feed into our assembly areas and for other customers. Some of the tasks include operating various CNC machinery, using Computer Aided Design (CAD) and utilising verniers, micrometres and other measuring equipment.
• Review and use information. For example, work instructions, drawings, design specifications, and plant configurations.
• Use planning, prioritising, organising, and time management techniques to plan tasks.
• Identify and organise resources to complete tasks. For example, consumables.
• Respond and adapt to work demands. For example, adapt working methods to reflect changes in working environment, re‑prioritise workloads to react to breakdowns and fault scenarios.
• Identify equipment to work on. Check plant configuration is as defined.
• Prepare the work area for maintenance tasks.
• Identify environmental and health and safety hazards and risks and apply control measures.
• Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, signage and barriers, working at height, confined spaces, and COSHH.
• Follow security procedures. For example, site access, document classification, and securing assets.
• Follow emergency incident and response procedures.
• Apply sustainability principles. For example, minimising waste.
• Segregate items for reuse, recycling, and waste.
• Use mathematical principles and formulae to support engineering maintenance.
• Apply engineering maintenance standards and procedures.
• Apply foreign material exclusion procedures.
• Follow maintenance tools and equipment control procedures. For example, handling and storage.
• Reinstate the work area.
• Apply team working principles.
• Communicate with others to give and receive information. For example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
• Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
• Record information.
• Produce or amend documents. For example, handover notes and reports.
• Identify and highlight issues (red pen), with technical drawings.
• Use digital and information technology. For example, databases, data sharing platforms, email, management information systems, and word processing. Follow cyber security and GDPR requirements.
• Apply continuous improvement techniques to identify improvement suggestions.
• Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities. For the right candidates, continued study towards higher or degree apprenticeships is supported where relevant. Achieving merits and distinctions during the Level 3 modules will be a requirement for progression.
• Electrical and control & instrumentation:
  Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout/tagout method has been applied and test for dead. Select, check, and use electrical maintenance tools, measurement and test equipment. Select, check, and use control and instrumentation maintenance tools, measurement and test equipment. Use electrical diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques. Use control and instrumentation diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques.
  
  Apply problem solving and critical reasoning techniques. Inspect and test electrical aspects of plant. For example, visual checks, insulation and continuity checks, thermographic surveys, and voltage levels. Remove and replace electrical parts. Prepare and terminate electrical cables. Set up and…