Apprentice Maintenance Technician

An exciting opportunity is available for an Apprentice Maintenance Technician at our Washington site.

This hands-on role offers the chance to develop engineering and maintenance skills within a fast-paced manufacturing environment, supporting the upkeep, repair, and optimisation of production equipment.

What you'll do at work:

• Support production breakdown maintenance activities, repairing and replacing production equipment while recording downtime data accurately
• Assist with equipment reconfiguration, including repositioning manufacturing equipment and services to support changing production requirements
• Complete maintenance and improvement tasks across all areas of the business
• Manage and maintain maintenance componentry, tooling, and workshop inventory
• Follow work instructions, safe working procedures, and company policies at all times
• Support compliance with relevant Health & Safety legislation and quality standards
• Identify and resolve maintenance issues in a timely manner, escalating where appropriate
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders, providing updates on work progress and completed tasks
• Prioritise workloads and work to agreed schedules and deadlines
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness

Where you'll work:

Glover Industrial Estate
Spire Road
Washington
NE37 3ES

Training:

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

Training provider:
CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE

Training course:
Mechatronics maintenance technician (level 3)

What you'll learn:

Course contents:

• Use information technology, for example to create documentation, communication, and information management.
• Obtain, read, and interpret task-related documentation, such as work instructions, quality control documents, drawings, operation manuals, specifications, and service manuals.
• Record information, for example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records, and any legal reporting requirements.
• Conduct initial assessment of equipment that requires maintenance.
• Formulate plans setting out the methodology of the maintenance activity including timescales and resources.
• Select, prepare, and use material, consumables, tools, and equipment.
• Comply with health and safety regulations and organisational requirements applicable in the workplace. For example, COSHH, PUWER, LOLER, PPE, and applying safe systems of work.
• Apply dynamic risk assessment, hazard identification, and risk mitigation principles and techniques.
• Apply isolation principles and techniques to equipment undergoing maintenance, including dissipation of stored energies as required.
• Manufacture, repair, and refurbish components using hand and machine tools.
• Restore the workplace on completion of the maintenance activity. Handover resources, consumables, and equipment to process owner.
• Apply the techniques and processes used in reactive maintenance and repair activities on complex engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power, and control systems.
• Produce, maintain, update, record, and store documentation including electronic items such as PLC and robot programmes.
• Apply techniques and processes used in planned and preventative maintenance activities on engineered systems such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power, and control systems.
• Apply functional testing and checking techniques and processes after maintenance interventions, and handover to the operational team.
• Apply techniques and processes used in condition monitoring, non-destructive, or sensory testing. Record findings and take necessary actions.
• Apply calculation techniques such as feeds, speeds, tolerances, electrical calculations using Ohm's law, power calculations, and cable sizing calculations.
• Select, use, and confirm calibration of electrical and mechanical testing and measuring equipment.
• Produce sketches or drawings to support maintenance activities.
• Communicate in writing. Prepare communications, documents, and reports on technical matters.
• Segregate, separate, and dispose of waste streams and by-products.
• Apply 4S or 5S principles of housekeeping to the work environment.
• Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve operational performance.
• Apply continuous improvement techniques.
• Communicate with others verbally. Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange access to equipment.
• Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion procedures.
• Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
• Apply fault-finding techniques used in reactive maintenance on complex integrated systems, including half split, input-output, six-point technique, function or performance testing, unit or component substitution, and equipment diagnostics.