Flowplant Group Limited
Apprentice Service Engineer
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Apprentice Service Technician - Flowplant Group Ltd
Flowplant has been established for over 50 years and is one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of bespoke high pressure pumps and systems. Our customer base includes telecom contractors, industrial process plants, steel mills, utility companies, and drainage contractors. Our machines can be mobile or fixed and diesel or electrically powered. We export to over 50 countries and have a sister manufacturing plant in the USA.
Learning to manufacture and assemble a range of Flowplant products.
- Pump manufacture
- System manufacture
- Diesel, hydraulic, and electric drive
- Mechanically based
- Some electrical based work
- From manufacture moving on to the test and quality control of the assembled products
Overall purpose of role
To acquire the skills, knowledge, and competence to assemble and test products listed above. Use of hand tools and some basic machining.
Although the role will not be completing these tasks, the role will encounter components that have been:
- Welded
- Machined
- Plated/powder coated
- Material processing
Self-management
Modern manufacturing organisations require their apprentices to have a set of behaviours that will ensure success both in their role and in the overall company objectives. The required behaviours are:
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- Safety mind-set: manage self and support others to maintain and contribute to a safe working environment in line with local procedures and National and European requirements.
- Strong work ethic: motivated, proactive, committed
- Dependability and responsibility: punctual and reliable
- Positive attitude: constructive thinking, motivated to succeed
- Team player: able to work and interact effectively within a team and committed to equality and diversity
- Effective communication: spoken, listening, body language, presentation, written
- Adaptability: able to adjust to change
- Honesty and integrity: truthful, sincere and ethical
- Self-motivation: self-starter, able to make appropriate decisions and lead their own professional development
- Personal commitment: prepared to make a personal commitment to the industry
Skills and Attributes:
- Using and interpreting engineering information
- Applied electrical and mechanical science and mathematics
- Understand the typical problems that can occur during the assembly process and how they can be resolved
- Comply with statutory, quality, organisational, and health and safety regulations while carrying out manufacturing techniques
- Obtain, check, and use the appropriate documentation (such as job instructions, drawings, quality control documentation)
- Obtain, check, and use the appropriate materials, tools, equipment, and consumables required
- Select and set up the correct tooling and work holding devices
- Team working
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Entry Requirement
NC Mechanical Engineering SCQF Level 6
(Entry requirements - Four National 5 qualifications at Grade C or above including Mathematics and a Science subject)
The Role:
- Depot service, commissioning new machines, and fault finding on bespoke water jetting equipment
- Working from depot
- Training at manufacturer's main assembly plant in Wiltshire with ongoing support from head office technical and admin team
- Overseas service and commissioning trips may be available
Salary competitive
Not minimum apprentice wage – Experience dependent
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