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Workshop Engineer Apprenticeship
Role Overview
As a Workshop Engineer, you will service and repair forklifts. You will be trained in all aspects of service engineering within the industry, including getting hands-on with hydraulics, LPG, and electric systems—putting your skills to the test daily to find the problem and fix it. Learn how to install, repair, and carry out planned maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Learn how to install, repair, and carry out planned maintenance of customer forklift trucks to Crown specifications.
- Undertake an appropriate engineering apprenticeship, completing set modules on time and attending college as necessary.
- Work shadow a colleague, and develop an understanding of workshop procedures through on-job training.
- Attend manufacturers' training and other training courses as appropriate.
- Learn Crown administrative procedures, and how to complete worksheets, timesheets, etc.
- Assist in keeping customer trucks secure and clean while in the workshop.
- Ensure security and correct use and issue of all tools and spares issued.
- Understand and adhere to all Crown Company, legislative, and Health and Safety procedures.
- Under close supervision, ensure all work undertaken meets industry and Crown work standards.
- Build and maintain good relationships with customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Undertakes other duties which Crown may from time-to-time reasonably request.
Work Location
- Costco Crick
- Dockham Way Crick
- Northampton
- NN6 7TZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
- Training provider: Loughborough College
- Training course: Lift truck and powered access engineering technician (level 3)
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Course Contents
- Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards relevant to lift truck or powered access machines.
- Obtain and interpret lift truck and powered access machine technical data and repair instructions.
- Use tools, workshop equipment, diagnostic, and measuring equipment when carrying out maintenance and repairs.
- Perform preventative maintenance activities on lift truck and powered access machines.
- Perform inspections on lift truck and powered access machines in compliance with Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) and Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) regulations.
- Remove and replace mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic components.
- Apply diagnostic principles and problem-solving techniques to diagnose faults on lift truck or powered access machine systems.
- Carry out functional testing and quality checks on repaired lift truck or powered access machine components and systems.
- Carry out repairs and make required adjustments.
- Record or enter information—paper-based or electronic. For example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, and manufacturers' documentation, worksheets, checklists.
- Check and maintain stock.
- Communicate with others verbally, for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Prepare and maintain a clean, tidy, and safe working area.
- Identify, organise, and use resources to complete tasks, in compliance with quality, safety, sustainability, and environmental standards and guidance.
- Follow equality, diversity, and inclusion procedures.
- Store and maintain tools, workshop equipment, diagnostic, and measuring equipment for maintenance and repairs.
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Training Schedule
- You will complete a 2-week block every 6-8 weeks at Loughborough College, Stephenson Campus in Leicester.
- Lift truck and Powered Access Engineering Technician Level 3 Standard.
- You will also complete training throughout your apprenticeship at our award-winning Demonstrated by Performance training centre in Birmingham.
Qualifications
- Essential qualifications:
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Mathematics (grade 4)
- GCSE in:
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
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- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Aptitude for practical science
About Crown Equipment Corporation
Since its entry into the material handling industry in the 1960s, Crown Equipment Corporation has earned a reputation for exceptional product design, engineering, and manufacturing of its award-winning line of electric lift trucks. From our smallest pallet truck to our highest lifting VNA truck, our goal is to always provide the user with the safest, most efficient, and ergonomic forklift truck possible. Crown supports customers with a wide selection of electric forklift trucks ranging from pallet trucks to very narrow-aisle VNA trucks. Our brand promise is: “Crown designs, manufactures, distributes, services, and supports material handling products that provide customers with superior value.” Quality and performance are the foundation of Crown’s success. Since our inception, our company culture has always been about people performing and working as a team to ensure that quality is built into every forklift truck we make. Crown’s headquarters, manufacturing facilities, and network of branches offer diverse and challenging careers in a broad range of professional and vocational roles.
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Career Growth
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
We care about your personal growth within Crown, and we strive to provide avenues to reach your career goals. Your career development path provides ongoing mentoring and mechanisms to enhance your skills and knowledge.
Upon successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will become a new engineer with the opportunity to become a fully-fledged Crown engineer. There are future opportunities to become a technical engineer, service team leader, and field service manager.
Contact Information
- Contact for this apprenticeship: Crown Lift Trucks Limited
- Sam Ivey
- Email: sam.ivey@crown.com
- Reference code: VAC2000049108
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