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Lift Truck and Powered Access Engineering Technician Apprenticeship
This 3-year programme provides the essential knowledge, skills, and behaviours for service technicians by working on a range of lift trucks and powered access machines. Suitable for anyone interested in engineering, where during the first two years focus is on removal, refit, service, and inspection and then a third year on fault diagnosis.
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work:
- Acquire the skills to be able to service, maintain, and repair forklift trucks and other material handling equipment
- Working in a branch or at one of our customer's sites working within a variety of environments and varying types of materials handling equipment
- Adhering to safety guidelines set and all policies set out by customers and Windsor Materials Handling
Your training plan:
- The programme is delivered over 3 years, through 5 x 1-week training blocks per year
- Throughout the programme, apprentices will be required to build up a portfolio of work for the End Point Assessment
- Apprentices will achieve a Level 3 Lift truck and Powered Access Engineering Technician Apprenticeship
- Full training schedule has yet to be agreed upon, further details will be made available at a later date
- This apprenticeship aligns with:
- Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for Engineering Technician
- Institute of the Motor Industry for Associate Member
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Essential qualifications:
- GCSE in:
- English (Grade 4 or C)
- Maths (Grade 4 or C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
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Other requirements
- The role will involve work within the branch workshop and onsite at our customers premises where conditions vary from indoor, cold store, and outdoor.
We are a multi-brand MHE supplier and in a unique position where we can offer customers a wide range of - but not limited to - counterbalance and heavy duty forklifts, access equipment, sideloaders, and ancillary products to suit all operational requirements. Further strengthening our role in the sector in developing engineers, Windsor has a long-standing commitment to recruiting local talent and up-skilling through training and apprenticeships.
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The successful candidate will be given the opportunity of full-time employment upon completion of the apprenticeship.
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