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Ashe manufactures a range of slitter/rewinders that it designs, develops and sells worldwide.
Requirements
- GCSE in Maths and English (grade 5-9)
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Responsibilities
- Filing, deburring and removing sharp edges and corners
- Manufacturing parts out of steel and aluminium
- Working on manual lathes and milling machines
- Cutting material on an automatic bandsaw
- Reading and understanding engineering drawings
- Adhering to health and safety
- Using measuring equipment
- Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and procedures.
- Comply with environmental, ethical and sustainability regulations and procedures: safe disposal of waste, re-cycling or re-use of materials and efficient use of resources.
- Prepare and set up conventional or CNC machines.
- Operate and adjust conventional or CNC machines.
- Apply risk assessment and hazard identification processes and procedures in the work area.
- Monitor, obtain and check stock and supplies, and complete stock returns.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Read and interpret information. For example, data and documentation used to produce machined components.
- Apply engineering, mathematical and scientific principles.
- Plan and organise own work and resources.
- Follow and apply inspection, quality assurance procedures and processes.
- Select machining process.
- Select and setup tooling and work holding devices.
- Set and adjust machine operating parameters. For example, setting feeds and speeds for roughing and finishing operations, loading, proving and validating programs when using a CNC machine tool.
- Apply machining operations and techniques to produce complex components with features. For example, parallel; stepped; angular diameters and faces; grooves; slots; recesses and undercuts; radii and chamfers; internal and external forms and profiles; reamed; bored; drilled and electro eroded holes; internal and external screw threads.
- Measure and check components.
- Select and check condition of tools and equipment. Identify issues, resolve and take action as needed.
- Identify and action issues in the manufacturing process.
- Apply fault-finding and diagnostic testing procedures to identify faults. Diagnose and resolve issues. Escalate issues.
- Maintain the work area and return any resources and consumables.
- Communicate with others verbally. For example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Follow machine shut down, safe isolation, handover, start up or warm up procedures. Escalate issues.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Apply team working principles.
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- Day release to West Suffolk College
- Machining technician (level 3)
- The apprentice have the opportunity of securing a full-time role upon completion of the apprenticeship
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About Ashe
Ashe manufactures a range of slitter/rewinders that it designs, develops and sells worldwide. The machines go into the packaging industry as well as the medical, cosmetic, paper, aluminium, beverages, etc. The machines basically take a parent reel of material and slits it down to size into smaller reels for the product to be put onto the wrapper, carton, box, bottle, etc.
Contact
WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE Sam Ridgeon sam.ridgeon@easterneducationgroupac.uk 01284 412350 The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040563.
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