Apprentice Engineering & Manufacturing Support Technician

Apprenticeship with Phoenix Pattern & Tool

An apprenticeship with Phoenix Pattern & Tool offers an invaluable pathway into a successful and rewarding career in engineering, with opportunities to work across the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace industries.

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

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

What you'll do at work

An Apprentice Engineering & Manufacturing Support Technician at Phoenix Pattern & Tool would be exciting and varied:

• Working as an integral part of our CAD design team, you’ll be working on a variety of tooling and modelling projects under the mentoring of our expert design team.
• You’ll also be spending time working with our bench and machining team manufacturing the designs you’ll have been part of in the design office.
• A small amount of time will also be spent in Inspection using a high end Faro Arm to provide digital reports of the manufactured parts.

Where you'll work

UNIT 8
HOBGATE RD
HEATH TOWN
WOLVERHAMPTON
WV10 0PG

Training provider

CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE

Training course

Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)

What you'll learn

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.