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The successful candidate will learn how to take control panel design drawings from concept to fully built and tested. Along the way they will come to understand best practices for wiring systems, and will be taught how inverters, PLCs, HMIs, breakers, contactors and all required components operate.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working, learning on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Requirements
- GCSE in English (grade 4)
- GCSE in Maths (grade 4)
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Responsibilities
- Ability to read and understand panel schematics
- Build and wire control panels to a high standard following engineering drawings
- Achieve skill and confidence to work on own initiative
- To be able to work in a precise and neat way
- To work in a shop floor environment
- Working as a member of a team
- Health and safety, good practices and good house keeping
- Reading, interpreting and understanding component or assembly specifications, diagrams, drawings and work instructions
- Planning component or assembly tasks – materials, tools and equipment
- Preparing work area for component or assembly tasks; sourcing required resources, tools and equipment
- Carrying out relevant planning and preparation activities before commencing work activity and knowing how to source required resources and interpret detailed drawings, specifications and job instructions
- Checking tools during and after task completion; identifying and reporting defects
- Measuring and testing, checking or inspecting components or assemblies (e.g., use of micrometers, verniers, multimeters, voltmeter)
- Problem solving; analysing issues and fixing them where appropriate
- Applying improvement techniques; recommending or implementing solutions where appropriate
- Communicating with colleagues or customers (internal or external)
- Completing component or assembly documentation (e.g., job instructions, drawings, quality control documentation)
- Reporting work outcomes or issues
- Restoring the work area on completion of the activity; returning any resources and consumables to the appropriate location and housekeeping
- Disposing of waste in accordance with waste streams; recycling, reusing where appropriate
- Operating within limits of responsibility
- Operating in line with quality, health and safety and environmental policy and procedures; identifying risks and hazards and identifying control measures where applicable
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- Earn a wage
- Gain valuable work experience and industry-specific competence
- Potential full-time role
- Your earnings can increase over time
Application Process
- The contact for this apprenticeship is CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE, John Sheldon (sheldonj@hesterfield.ac.uk, 01246500500).
- The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040593.
About Crawford Controls
Formed in May 1997, Crawford Controls is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. Always a Rotherham-based company, the business is now well-established locally and nationwide. From 3 employees in the early days, Crawford Controls now employs 9 staff across shop floor personnel, engineers, and administration. Big enough to cope but small enough to care and provide the personal service clients prefer.
www.crawfordcontrols.com/index.htm
Contact
- CHESTERFIELD COLLEGE
- John Sheldon
- sheldonj@hesterfield.ac.uk
- 01246500500
- Reference code: VAC2000040593
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