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Engineering Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship
The apprenticeship will consist of off-the-job training at Solihull Technical College one day a week and on-site training where you will gain excellent skills and knowledge from highly skilled and experienced engineers during your apprenticeship. There may also be scope for additional learning post-apprenticeship.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
This apprenticeship will combine skills, knowledge, and behaviours to be successful in the Process Engineering role. This will include many different disciplines including manufacturing methods, production methods, quality assurance, core engineering principles, engineering and manufacturing documentation and CAD packages, communication techniques, lean methodology, and project management.
The requirement at the end of the apprenticeship is to attain Engineering Manufacturing Technician Level 4. Upon completion, the role is to develop, implement, and maintain efficient manufacturing processes and workflow for chemically etched products. Investigating operational problems affecting production and reporting and recommending solutions.
Manufacturing engineering processes:
- Organise, implement, and maintain production process flow
- Develop working instructions, standards, and process documents, ensuring these are followed
- Manage manufacturing documentation required for product manufacturing i.e. revise drawings, accurate work instructions, and workmanship standards and procedures
- Provide manufacturing data i.e. production control charts, reliability, process capability
- To improve the process and monitor and measure progress targets
- Identify ways to reduce production costs through recommendations i.e. new process equipment justification to improve performance
Maintenance / Facilities:
- Oversee the facilities maintenance, liaise, and provide support to the maintenance team where required
- Monitor and manage the improvements to the operating utilities equipment and practices
- Continually improve existing operations for increased quality, productivity, efficiency, production, reporting, and recommending solutions, working closely with the maintenance team
- Liaise with suppliers on manufacturing processes and place orders where required
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Where you'll work
Langley Drive
Birmingham
B35 7AD
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOLIHULL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
Training course
Engineering manufacturing technician (level 4)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Read and extract relevant engineering and manufacturing-related data and information (such as workplans or project plans, schedules, drawings, specifications, production data, quality reports, costing data, statistical information) drawing accurate conclusions and making informed decisions.
- Use project management tools, such as Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT), stakeholder matrices, risk mapping, radar chart, and summary risk profiles.
- Use problem-solving tools such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Fishbone, Practical Problem Solving (PPS), and Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).
- Analyse and interpret data and information in order to generate manufacturing engineering documentation such as Parts Per Million (PPM) quality adherence, cost analysis, and test data.
- Communicate using the appropriate method for the audience such as, formal and informal presentations, written reports, verbal, electronic, social media, and incorporating relevant and appropriate data or metrics.
- Use the approved process and quality compliance procedure to create or amend engineering or manufacturing documentation.
- Use lean tools and techniques, such as Six Sigma, 8 Wastes, Workplace organisation such as 5S's (sort, set in order, shine, standardise, and sustain), Kaizen, and Poka-Yoke (Error proofing).
- Apply documentation control processes and procedures such as format, location, access, authorisation.
- Use financial planning, recording, and review processes and documentation such as departmental budgets, estimating, cost control, cost forecasting, and investment appraisal.
- Use computer-based software systems or packages such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), Data Analytics, and Databases.
Training schedule
Day release at Solihull College, Chelmsley Wood Campus for the first 2 years and 4 days a week onsite at Parker, Castle Vale. 3rd year at Parker, Castle Vale embedding learning with a view to day release to other Parker sites.
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Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or above)
- Maths (grade 4 or above)
- Other (grade 4 or above)
- Other (grade 4 or above)
- Other (grade 4 or above)
- A Level in:
- Science (grade C or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Enthusiastic
- Engineering Career Plan
Other requirements
The role can be physically and mentally demanding at times. They must consider commuting to the site and to college. They must have a desire and appetite for Engineering.
About the employer
Heatric, a division of Parker Meggitt, is the world’s leading manufacturer and servicer of ‘printed circuit’ diffusion-bonded heat exchangers (PCHEs) for selected energy markets. Applications range from hydrocarbon processing, marine propulsion systems, and power generation for clients such as GE, Shell, Petrobras, and ExxonMobil, among many others.
With more than 30 years of experience and thousands of units in operation, Heatric’s global services can minimise unit downtime through preventative maintenance and servicing solutions. Heatric’s purpose is to enable the extraordinary. The company offers world-leading capabilities in thermal engineering, etching, diffusion bonding, and stainless steel fabrication.
Through applied innovation, Heatric is enabling customers to achieve their goals. We are an expanding business, and our success means there is a continuous requirement for the best and brightest talents in business, engineering, and manufacturing.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
At the end of the apprenticeship, it is a possibility that the successful applicant will be offered a permanent position as a Process Engineer and potentially progress to degree learning.
Contact for this apprenticeship
SOLIHULL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
Paul Bates
Paul.bates@solihull.ac.uk
01216787181
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000048784.
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