Manufacturing Engineering Apprentice

Summary

Working with highly experienced engineers, you will gain experience in all aspects of product design and development. You will complete placements in all areas of the business, developing a complete understanding of how each function operates and interact.

Annual wage

£20,000 a year

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6 Monthly Reviews

Training course

Manufacturing engineer (degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday – Friday, shifts TBC

38 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 23 September

Duration

4 Years

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Product Design and Development
Practical Hands-on product/ material testing
Department placements; Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, Finance etc

Where you’ll work

1

Concorde Close

Fareham

PO15 5RT

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER

Your training course

Manufacturing engineer (degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Foundation Stage: Complying with statutory regulations and stringent organisational safety requirements

Foundation Stage: Producing components using hand fitting, fabrication and joining techniques

Foundation Stage: Producing Computer Aided Design (CAD) models (drawings) using a CAD system

Foundation Stage: Preparing and using lathes, milling and other general or specialist machines and high tech equipment

Foundation Stage: Preparing and proving Computer Numeric Control programmes

Foundation Stage: Using computer software packages to assist with and evaluate engineering activities

Foundation Stage: Producing and managing engineering project plans

Foundation Stage: Producing assemblies using a wide range of materials and techniques

Development Team: Project management and scheduling engineering activities

Development Team: Securing appropriate resources and managing budgets and resources

Development Team: Implementing, monitoring and evaluating engineering processes

Your training plan

You will recieve a BEng Hons Manufacturing Engineering
The apprentice will be studying at the Bognor Regis Campus, this will be one day a week.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade C/4 or above)
Maths (grade C/4 or above)
3 subjects (grade C or above)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

HNC (grade PASS)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

Driving Licence ITAR Compliant (UK/EU Citizenship held only)

About this company

Porvair Filtration Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Porvair plc, is a specialist filtration and environmental technology group involved in developing, designing and manufacturing filtration and separation solutions to industry sectors such as the aviation, molten metal, energy, water treatment and life sciences markets. Porvair plc is a publically owned company with four principal subsidiaries: Porvair Filtration Group Ltd., Porvair Sciences Ltd., Selee Corporation and Seal Analytical Ltd. Porvair Filtration Group has grown organically and through acquisition and incorporation of a number of specialist filtration and engineering companies. Each of these companies brought specific capability and technology to broaden our offering to customers or improve our value proposition. A number of these acquisitions have grown up to form our UK operating divisions located in Segensworth, New Milton and our Porvair Filtration Group Inc. operations in Virginia, Boise and Maine in the USA.

http://www.porvairfiltration.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Continuation of employment with the company with secondment opportunities to other sites within the group in America & Europe (International travel possible).

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