Maintenance Technician Apprentice; Level 3 – BMW Group – MINI Plant

Maintenance Technician Apprentice (Level
3) - BMW Group - MINI Plant Oxford

Oxford (OX4 6NL
)

Closes in 6 days (Saturday 28 February 2026)

We believe in creating an environment where our apprentices really can learn and develop during their time with us. Our experts and mentors will treat you as part of the team from day one, encouraging you to bring your own ideas to the table and giving you the opportunity to really show what you can do.

A competitive salary enhanced every six months depending on individual progress and performance rising to over £34,000 at the end of the programme.

Training course:
Mechatronics maintenance technician (level
3)

Hours:

You will have a 37-hour working week. Start and finish times will vary to meet the needs of your work-based placements and college hours.

Duration: 4 years

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

The four-year programme is designed to enable you to experience different aspects of engineering and production technology including robotics, controls systems, machining, fluid power, electronics, welding and many more. The first year of the program is purely in a learning environment where in addition to starting the academic requirements of your program, you will undertake a practical based engineering program which covers core engineering skills such as milling and turning, electrical and electronic circuits and control and fluid power, PLC’s etc.

In the second and third year you will continue with the academic requirements of the program alongside on-the-job training. Your on-the-job training will comprise of placements in a number of different areas of the business, with particular focus on the maintenance departments and may also involve placements at other BMW UK sites. If at the end of your second year you meet your targeted grades you will have the opportunity to continue your fully funded academic training beyond level 3 onto an HNC in Engineering.

In your fourth year your on-the-job training will continue and will become more targeted to your final job role and where the job requires it you will start working a shift pattern to help better integrate you with your team. Our mentors are always available to provide individual support and guidance, enabling you to customise training to suit your skills.

Assembly & Service Division
Cowley
Oxford
OX4 6NL

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Mechatronics maintenance technician (level
3)

• Use information technology, for example to create documentation, communication and information management.
• Obtain, read and interpret task related documentation, such as work instructions, quality control documents, drawings, operation manuals, specifications and service manuals.
• Record information for example job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
• Conduct initial assessment of equipment that requires maintenance.
• Formulate plans setting out the methodology of the maintenance activity including timescales and resources.
• Select, prepare and use material, consumables, tools and equipment.
• Comply with health and safety regulations and organisational requirements applicable in the workplace. For example, COSHH, PUWER, LOLER, PPE and applying safe systems of work.
• Apply dynamic risk assessment, hazard identification and risk mitigation principles and techniques.
• Apply isolation principles and techniques to equipment undergoing maintenance, including dissipation of stored energies as required.
• Manufacture, repair and refurbish components using hand and machine tools.
• Restore the workplace on completion of the maintenance activity. Handover resources, consumables and equipment to process owner.
• Apply the techniques and processes used in reactive maintenance and repair activities on complex engineered systems such as…