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Ichiban UK
Ichiban UK is a privately owned sushi manufacturer producing premium own label and branded sushi for the UK market.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Engineering team, where you'll gain valuable hands-on experience maintaining and improving the equipment that keeps our production areas running efficiently.
Wage
£26,436.80 a year
Training course
Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm. 40 hours a week
Start date
Monday 5 October 2026
Duration
2 years 6 months
Positions available
1
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REAGIT UK LTD
Training course
Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3)
What you'll learn
Course contents
Electrical and control and instrumentation
- Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout tagout method has been applied and test for dead.
- Select, check, and use electrical maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment. Select, check, and use control and instrumentation maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment.
- Use electrical diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques. Use control and instrumentation diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques.
- Apply problem solving and critical reasoning techniques.
- Inspect and test electrical aspects of plant. For example, visual checks, insulation and continuity checks, thermographic surveys, and voltage levels.
- Remove and replace electrical parts.
- Prepare and terminate electrical cables.
- Set up and adjust electrical aspects of plant.
- Clean parts. For example, removal of dust and debris.
- Conduct and confirm electrical and connected services isolation and deisolation.
- Conduct functional testing.
- Inspect and test control and instrumentation systems.
- Check calibration and make adjustments.
- Check loop function.
- Set up and adjust control and instrumentation systems.
- Remove and replace instruments and sensors.
- Re-connect instrumentation power supply, cables, pipework, and services.
Electrical and mechanical
- Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout tagout method has been applied and test for dead.
- Conduct and confirm electrical and connected services isolation and deisolation.
- Select, check, and use electrical and mechanical maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment.
- Use electrical and mechanical diagnostic equipment and apply fault finding and rectification techniques.
- Apply problem solving and critical reasoning techniques.
- Inspect and test electrical aspects of plant. For example, visual checks, insulation and continuity checks, thermographic surveys, and voltage levels.
- Remove and replace electrical parts.
- Prepare and terminate electrical cables.
- Set up, align, and adjust electrical aspects of plant.
- Clean parts. For example, removal of dust and debris.
- Conduct functional testing.
- Check condition and operation of mechanical aspects of plant and equipment. For example, pumps.
- Remove and replace mechanical parts.
- Examine mechanical parts for defects. For example, pump seals.
- Set up, align, and adjust mechanical aspects of plant.
- Lubricate mechanical assemblies.
- Apply bench fitting techniques.
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Review and use information
- For example, work instructions, drawings, design specifications, and plant configurations.
Use planning, prioritising, organising, and time management techniques to plan tasks
- Identify and organise resources to complete tasks. For example, consumables.
- Respond and adapt to work demands. For example, adapt working methods to reflect changes in working environment, re-prioritise workloads to react to breakdowns and fault scenarios.
- Identify equipment to work on. Check plant configuration is as defined.
- Prepare the work area for maintenance tasks.
- Identify environmental and health and safety hazards and risks and apply control measures.
- Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, signage and barriers, working at height, confined spaces, and COSHH.
- Follow security procedures. For example, site access, document classification, and securing assets.
- Follow emergency incident and response procedures.
- Apply sustainability principles. For example, minimising waste.
- Segregate items for reuse, recycling, and waste.
- Use mathematical principles and formulae to support engineering maintenance.
- Apply engineering maintenance standards and procedures.
- Apply foreign material exclusion procedures.
- Follow maintenance tools and equipment control procedures. For example, handling and storage.
- Reinstate the work area.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate with others to give and receive information. For example, colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
- Escalate issues outside limits of responsibility.
- Record information.
- Produce or amend documents. For example, handover notes and reports.
- Identify and highlight issues (red pen), with technical drawings.
- Use digital and information technology. For example, databases, data sharing platforms, email, management information systems, and word processing. Follow cyber security and GDPR requirements.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques to identify improvement suggestions.
- Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
Training schedule
Training will take place at REAGIT UK Ltd, C/o ATB Laurence Scott, Hardy Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1JN.
As part of your 30-month apprenticeship with REAGIT, you will begin with 20 weeks of full-time training at their centre (Monday to Friday), where you will build the core knowledge and skills required for the role through both classroom-based and practical learning.
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Following this initial training period, you will attend the centre one day per week for the next 72 weeks, continuing your development through a combination of technical training, hands-on practical learning, and valuable workplace experience.
More training information
REAGIT UK Ltd is a specialist engineering training provider based in Norwich. Established in 2019, the company continues a long tradition of engineering training in the region. REAGIT focuses exclusively on engineering and technical training, with apprentices learning in well-equipped workshops that reflect real industrial environments. Front loaded training covers areas such as mechanical and electrical maintenance, welding and fabrication, machining and industrial electrical systems. REAGIT works with employers across Norfolk, East Anglia and surrounding areas, helping apprentices develop the practical skills, technical knowledge and confidence needed to succeed in technical roles.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade Grade 4/C)
- T Level in:
- Engineering (grade Grade 4/C)
Desirable qualifications
- A Level in:
- Engineering (grade Grade 4/C)
- Level 2 in Engineering in:
- Engineering (grade Pass/ Merit or Distinction)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
Ichiban UK
Ichiban UK is a privately owned sushi manufacturer producing premium own label and branded sushi for the UK market. We have been one of the UK’s largest sushi producers for almost two decades and moved to our current site in Earl Stonham, Suffolk in 2007. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, we are a well-equipped and heavily invested site that specialises in the art of making sushi for leading UK retailers and supermarkets.
What Ichiban means is ‘number one’ in Japanese, and that’s what we always aim to be! We employ over 450 staff on our site from Production Operatives to Engineers, which allows us to complete the whole process of manufacturing from start to finish here in Suffolk.
https://www.ichibanuk.com/ (opens in new tab)
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It is intended that - providing you successfully complete your apprenticeship - you will become a permanent member of staff.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REAGIT UK LTD
Emma Marshall
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000049404.
Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 9 September 2026 at 11:59pm)
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