Food and Drink Maintenance Engineer Apprentice

Summary

An exciting opportunity to join a growing business and their team of engineers. You will receive on the job training and learn technical skills to set you up for a successful career at My Coffee Station.

Annual wage: £13,312 a year
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Training course: Food and drink maintenance engineer (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Wednesday 1 January
Duration: 3 years 6 months
Positions available: 2

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

Tasks relating to our fleet of coffee and shake machines;

Servicing and Maintaining
Diagnosing and Repairing
Building and Installing
Completing tasks around the warehouse
Travelling to customer premises

Where you’ll work

BRADLEY HOUSE

BRADLEY ROAD

STOURBRIDGE

WEST MIDLANDS

DY8 1UZ

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

BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE

Your training course

Food and drink maintenance engineer (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Read and interpret task related information and data. For example, work instructions, SOPs, quality control documentation, Service Level Agreements, specifications, engineering representations, drawings, and graphical information, work instructions, and operation manuals.

Plan work. Identify and organise resources to complete tasks.

Identify hazards and control measures to mitigate risks.

Comply with food safety regulations and procedures.

Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures.

Comply with environment and sustainability regulations and procedures: safe disposal of waste, re-cycling or re-use of materials and efficient use of resources.

Select, check the condition, and safely use maintenance tools and equipment. Store tools and equipment. Complete or arrange maintenance of tools and equipment including calibration where required.

Follow standard operating procedures and quality procedures.

Follow site isolation and lock off procedures (lockout, tagout) and re-instatement of equipment with system checks and handover.

Apply mechanical and fluid power system maintenance practices and techniques. For example, check levels, parts wear, pressure, and sensors, grease and lubricate parts, replace, fit components, and calibrate equipment.

Apply electrical and control maintenance practices and techniques including use of electrical testing equipment and instruments. For example, panel risk assessment, fixed wire installation testing, fault finding, thermographic surveys, and checking protection settings.

Apply reliability engineering techniques to prevent or reduce the likelihood or frequency of failures. For example, condition monitoring, oil sampling, thermography, vibration analysis, and ultrasound.

Install and configure instrumentation or process control systems.

Install and configure electrical systems. For example, add distribution boards to circuits, single and three phase motors (AC and DC).

Assemble, position and fix equipment or components. Complete commissioning checks.

Disconnect and remove equipment or components. Complete storage measures to prevent deterioration.

Read and interpret equipment performance data.

Fabricate, drill, and join to produce basic parts, spares or components to measurement and tolerance specification.

Apply down-hand (flat) TIG welding techniques: butt and tee.

Apply mathematical techniques to solve engineering problems.

Produce and amend electrical and mechanical engineering representations, drawings, and graphical information. For example, for new component parts or change in circuit diagram or panel.

Apply fault-finding and problem-solving techniques for example, using PLC data to diagnose issues and locate faults on industrial network.

Apply continuous improvement techniques to understand current performance; collect and record data. Devise suggestions for improvement.

Restore the work area on completion of activity.

Resolve or escalate issues.

Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management. Comply with GDPR. Comply with cyber security.

Record work activity. For example, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records, and any business or legal reporting requirements.

Communicate verbal and written. For example, with colleagues and stakeholders. Use engineering terminology where appropriate.

Produce reports for example, equipment performance reports.

Provide guidance or training to colleagues or stakeholders.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

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
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

Our ethos is simple, we offer a range of to go Fairtrade hot drinks in convenience stores and hospitality sites. We are the first to go station that can offer both dairy and non dairy options in the one station. Our coffee is based on a blend of arabica and Robusta beans, a nice smooth blend that packs a punch. Our chocolate is a special blend of Belgium cocoa, comfort in a cup. The tea, old-fashioned, freshly brewed leaf tea and strong like builders. Our cups are like our stations, both green in colour but also green in nature, all our cups are recyclable, compostable, PE and PLA free. looking after our planet one coffee cup at a time.

http://www.mycoffeestation.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

There will be oppurtunities to grow within the business and advanced your career and skills however you wish to.

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