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About the Role
Montgomery Waters is a leading independent manufacturer of bottled mineral, spring, and flavoured waters. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Apprentice Engineer to join our engineering team and develop the skills needed for a successful career in food and drink manufacturing.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience working on high-speed bottling and packaging equipment while studying towards a recognised engineering qualification.
What You Will Learn
Working alongside experienced engineers, you will receive training in:
- Mechanical and electrical maintenance
- Fault finding and problem solving
- Preventive maintenance
- Conveyor systems, pumps, motors, and sensors
- Bottling, filling, capping, and packaging machinery
- Health and safety procedures
- Food safety, hygiene, and BRCGS standards
- Continuous improvement and manufacturing best practice
Your Responsibilities
- Assist engineers with planned and reactive maintenance activities
- Help diagnose and repair equipment faults
- Carry out basic maintenance tasks under supervision
- Maintain accurate maintenance records
- Support production teams to minimise downtime
- Keep engineering workshops and work areas clean and organised
- Follow all site health, safety, and food safety rules.
- Take an active role in your college / apprenticeship studies
What We Offer
- A structured apprenticeship programme
- Required release days / college support
- Training with experienced engineers
- Opportunities to work on modern high-speed manufacturing equipment
- Career progression within the engineering department
- Company pension (if eligible)
- Employee assistance and wellbeing support
- On-site parking
Why Join Us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to build a long-term career in a growing manufacturing business. Successful apprentices may have the opportunity to progress into a Multi-Skilled Engineer role upon completion of the apprenticeship.
Please be aware that this position is multi-site working and so the applicant must be able to get to the Churchstoke site.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Shrewsbury Rd, Church Stretton, SY6 6HD
- CHURCHSTOKE, MONTGOMERY, SY15 6AR
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SHREWSBURY COLLEGE
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Training course
Food and drink maintenance engineer (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Read and interpret task related information and data. For example, work instructions, SOPs, quality control documentation, Service Level Agreements, specifications, engineering representations, drawings, and graphical information, work instructions, and operation manuals.
- Plan work. Identify and organise resources to complete tasks.
- Identify hazards and control measures to mitigate risks.
- Comply with food safety regulations and procedures.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures.
- Comply with environment and sustainability regulations and procedures: safe disposal of waste, re-cycling or re-use of materials, and efficient use of resources.
- Select, check the condition, and safely use maintenance tools and equipment. Store tools and equipment. Complete or arrange maintenance of tools and equipment including calibration where required.
- Follow standard operating procedures and quality procedures.
- Follow site isolation and lock off procedures (lockout, tagout) and re-instatement of equipment with system checks and handover.
- Apply mechanical and fluid power system maintenance practices and techniques. For example, check levels, parts wear, pressure, and sensors, grease and lubricate parts, replace, fit components, and calibrate equipment.
- Apply electrical and control maintenance practices and techniques including use of electrical testing equipment and instruments. For example, panel risk assessment, fixed wire installation testing, fault finding, thermographic surveys, and checking protection settings.
- Apply reliability engineering techniques to prevent or reduce the likelihood or frequency of failures. For example, condition monitoring, oil sampling, thermography, vibration analysis, and ultrasound.
- Install and configure instrumentation or process control systems.
- Install and configure electrical systems. For example, add distribution boards to circuits, single and three phase motors (AC and DC).
- Assemble, position, and fix equipment or components. Complete commissioning checks.
- Disconnect and remove equipment or components. Complete storage measures to prevent deterioration.
- Read and interpret equipment performance data.
- Fabricate, drill, and join to produce basic parts, spares, or components to measurement and tolerance specification.
- Apply down-hand (flat) TIG welding techniques: butt and tee.
- Apply mathematical techniques to solve engineering problems.
- Produce and amend electrical and mechanical engineering representations, drawings, and graphical information. For example, for new component parts or change in circuit diagram or panel.
- Apply fault-finding and problem-solving techniques for example, using PLC data to diagnose issues and locate faults on industrial network.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques to understand current performance; collect and record data. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Restore the work area on completion of activity.
- Resolve or escalate issues.
- Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management. Comply with GDPR. Comply with cyber security.
- Record work activity. For example, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records, and any business or legal reporting requirements.
- Communicate verbal and written. For example, with colleagues and stakeholders. Use engineering terminology where appropriate.
- Produce reports for example, equipment performance reports.
- Provide guidance or training to colleagues or stakeholders.
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Training schedule
The apprentice will attend Shrewsbury College, London Rd Campus for the day release element on a proposed timetable of 2 days per week.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- Maths and English (grade C / 4 or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Driving licence will be ESSENTIAL, due to multi-site travelling.
Montgomery Waters is a leading independent manufacturer of bottled Mineral, Spring, and flavoured waters. All products are manufactured from our sites in rural Wales and Shropshire.
https://www.montgomeryspring.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Upon successful review, you will advance to higher qualifications and be offered a permanent position within the company.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHREWSBURY COLLEGE
Jules Rhodes
julesr@shrewsbury.ac.uk
01743653460
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000048056.
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