Apprentice Solid works Designer

About the Role

An apprentice role supporting the design of bespoke chandeliers and luxury lighting using SolidWorks. Working with experienced designers and craftspeople, you will produce 3D models and technical drawings while developing specialist skills in lighting design, engineering and manufacture.

About the Employer

Madson Black is a Royal Warrant-holding British designer and manufacturer of bespoke chandeliers, decorative lighting and architectural metalwork. From our Oxfordshire workshops, we combine traditional craftsmanship with advanced design and manufacturing technology, working for leading designers, luxury hotels, governments and Royal Households.

What You'll Learn

Course Contents:

• Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
• Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
• Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
• Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
• Select materials and parts.
• Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
• Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
• Provide feedback on engineering designs.
• Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
• Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
• Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
• Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
• Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
• Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
• Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
• Read, interpret and establish design intent.
• Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
• Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
• Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
• Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
• Option 1: Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
• Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
• Identify cable types and application.
• Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
• Option 2: Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
• Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
• Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
• Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
• Option 3: Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
• Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
• Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
• Option 4: Produce general arrangements of piping design.
• Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
• Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
• Option 5: Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
• Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
• Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.