Engineering Design Apprentice

Summary

Work alongside members of the mechanical design team you will develop the requisite skills and experience to design and create new products and take responsibility from inception through final design to manufacturing and assembly and finally through to sale within an agreed specification, cost target and timeline.

Annual wage: £16,770 a year
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Training course: Engineering manufacturing technician (level 4)
Hours: Monday to Friday 08:30 am - 16:30 pm
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Wednesday 1 January
Duration: 3 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

• Learning to meet customer and sales expectations through customising existing products and components to their new product requirements within short deadlines whilst delivery best-in-class solutions to a global market.
• As an apprentice member of the design team, take responsibility for supporting senior team members in the full product development life-cycle of new components, products and solutions including supporting internal, e.g. Product Management teams with specific product information
• Learn and apply the skills and knowledge required to apply best in class aesthetics, materials and functionality into new products.
• Use Creo 3D CAD system to design and visualise projects create 2D drawings to enable procurement of tooling and components.
• Create photo realistic images from 3D models and assembly’s for customer visualisation.
• Undertake model making, prototyping and product testing.
• Communicate effectively with customers, colleagues and vendors involved in a project.
• Liaise with the wider engineering team and other departments to assist in the development of product specifications.
• Plan and work effectively to ensure personal tasks are delivered on time, to standard and to budget.
• Produce product design information such as bill of materials and drawings for product management.

Where you’ll work

WATERSIDE HOUSE

EDGAR MOBBS WAY

NORTHAMPTON

NN5 5JE

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

ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Engineering manufacturing technician (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

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.

Your training plan

Qualifications included:

Engineering Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship Standard. Company Training Plan & Assessment.
BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Engineering (1 day per week for 2 years at college)
Level 4 Diploma in Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (Development Competence)
Level 2 Functional Skills - Maths (If required)
Level 2 Functional Skills - English (If required)
End Point Assessment at the end of the apprenticeship (Months 36 to 39)

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

A Min of 5 GCSE's inc Science, English & Maths (grade 5-9 / C-A*)
Engineering qualification (grade Pass, Distinction, Merit)

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
Problem solving skills
Number skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Time Management
Interest in Engineering

Other requirements

Day to day work based at Hellermann Tyton site in Northampton. Must be able to travel to Bicester one day per week to complete the HNC via day release.

About this company

Hellermann Tyton is an established leader in the supply of connectivity products in the LAN -Data Centre, Comms Rooms and FTTX markets. Through their design and product management teams they are constantly introducing new products to fulfill the needs of customers in a fast-changing technological environment.

https://www.htdata.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

HNC followed by HND and a permanent position as a Design Engineer.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED

Sally Parr

s.parr@theengineeringtrust.org

07879 128768

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000281855.

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Closes on Tuesday 31 December

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