Apprentice Maintenance Technician Swish Building Products

Location

Lichfield, Staffordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

What you will do in your working day

Typical day to day duties will include:

• Assist in all preventatives, predictive and routine maintenance work
• Identify and ensure critical spares are stocked and reordered Co-ordinate with suppliers to supply spare parts for machines
• Carry out TPM schedules
• Carry out the maintenance of production machines & building repairs, electrically and mechanically
• Identifying and liaise with suppliers of maintenance services when required
• Investigating maintenance problems affecting production and identify improvements
• Understand and analyse graphs and statistics and other complex information
• Assembling and maintaining machinery and systems
• Reading engineering drawings
• Publish engineering reports that describe a machine’s layout and components
• Maintenance and improvement of previous manufacturing processes for better efficiency
• Carry out feasibility studies to understand cost implications on new projects to be carried out
• Using appropriate software design in the analysis of complex problems encountered during the manufacture of equipment

The training you will be getting

The successful applicant will undertake a Level 3 Engineering Technician Apprenticeship. They will start a 2-week induction covering the principles of the apprenticeship, induction to programme and additional courses such as:

• IOSH Working Safely
• Manual Handling
• Abrasive Wheels
• Slinging
• Equality & Diversity
• Prevent Agenda
• Introduction to Lean

The apprenticeship will be a 4-year training programme where the candidate will be required to attend In-Comm Training Service in Aldridge 3 days a week for the first 2 years of their apprenticeship which will includes practical and theory, and then one day a week for the following 2 years.

Learners start with off the job training covering 2.5 days a week at In-Comm Aldridge and then spending 2.5 days a week on the job at Swish. The successful apprentice will work towards a Level 2 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Foundation Competence) and begin their Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Knowledge) this knowledge element spans the whole of the programme. The applicant will need to be fully committed to both the education, skills and training of the apprenticeship before completing their end point assessment at the end of the apprenticeship.

What to expect at the end of your apprenticeship

• Full Time opportunity to progress and move within departments

• Continuation and progression and the opportunity to move onto the HNC

• Opportunity for progression and further training and development within the business

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Salary

£15k per annum