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Apprentice Engineering & Manufacturing Support Technician
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Role Overview
The role involves operating, maintaining, and supporting production machinery, including equipment used within the winding room and across manufacturing lines. The apprentice will also support the introduction of newly developed machines and processes into production and assist with troubleshooting and continuous improvement activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the operation and maintenance of manufacturing equipment used in production
- Maintain equipment across the production line, including welder calibration, dehumidifier maintenance, air plumbing systems, and production floor layout adjustments
- Support with machine setting and operation
- Assist production teams where required to meet manufacturing demands
- Learn and understand the operation of all production machinery to support troubleshooting and fault finding
- Support the introduction of new machinery and processes into manufacturing
- Build duplicate production machines from engineering schematics and drawings once designs have been approved and validated
- Test and evaluate new manufacturing processes and techniques, providing feedback to engineering teams
- Develop and maintain process instructions and manufacturing documentation
- Use measurement tools and inspection equipment to verify components, tooling, and assemblies meet specification requirements
- Support quality inspection and testing activities
- Follow all company health, safety, and quality procedures
Departmental Training & Development Exposure
Hardware Engineering
- Build simple electronic circuits and develop understanding of basic electronics and PCB assemblies
Mechanical Engineering
- Design simple mechanical parts/components and use CAD and 3D printing technology
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Stores & Materials Control
- Goods-in inspection, kit picking, stock control systems and VSS operation
SMT (Surface Mount Technology)
- Programming pick-and-place machines, ODB and BOM collation, SMT component recognition, screen printing operations, paste application theory, machine setup and operation, AOI, and vapour phase soldering
Production Assembly
- Use of production documentation, BOMs, through-hole component insertion, relay assembly, wave soldering, hand soldering, wire preparation, crimping, and swash machine operation
Inspection & Quality
- Roving inspection, continuity checking, and final inspection processes
Test Engineering
- Product testing procedures and understanding of production test methods and equipment
Apprenticeship Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Course Contents
- Follow health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, segregation of resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, British Standards (BS), International Organisation for Standardisation standards (ISO), European Norm (EN).
- Analyse engineering and manufacturing data and information to support technical outputs. For example, read and interpret text, data, engineering drawings, work instructions, method statements, operation manuals.
- Apply scientific, technical or engineering principles.
- Apply problem solving techniques to solutions for identified technical problems.
- Organise, plan and prioritise workflow and scheduling of work with stakeholders.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Produce job specific technical outputs. For example, engineering drawings, quality control management, computer control programming, business improvement, adverse incident reports, technical investigations, equipment appraisals and specifications.
- Provide support and guidance for handover of work to stakeholders. For example, checklists, product or process status, access to supporting documents.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, checklists.
- Follow standard operating procedures.
- Follow manufacturer's instructions. For example, safe instructions for use of products, processes and machinery.
- Apply quality assurance and control principles and practices. For example, conduct physical checks, take samples, inspections or tests.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, stakeholders, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
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Career Progression
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Within Pickering there are possible career routes into Engineering, Test, R&D, Product Management or Customer Service.
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