Special Skills (Vehicle Repair) Apprentice

NISSAN MOTOR MANUFACTURING (UK) LIMITED

Tyne And Wear, SR5 3NS

Closes on Friday 28 February

Posted on 17 December 2024

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Summary

Accelerate your career to a specialist vehicle repair manufacturing operative. It’s a hands-on and challenging scheme, designed to help you develop as far as you want to go, making real contributions to the manufacturing process and gaining life skills to take forward into your career.

Annual wage
£16,402 a year

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Competitive salary (increased every six months based on performance) and pension. Paid overtime and shift allowance (if applicable).

Training course
Lean manufacturing operative (level 2)
Hours
This role requires shift working.

39 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 1 September

Duration

2 years

Positions available

15

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

  • You’ll get the best of both worlds on our 2-year scheme, with a blend of first-rate college learning combined with hands-on, real-world experience working within the plant. In this specialist apprenticeship, you will work in either Quality Assurance or on the Final Line, identifying and carrying out vehicle repairs and gaining valuable industry knowledge in repair standards across all parts of the car.
  • You will split your time between college learning and working as part of the specialist panel team at our world-class manufacturing plant.
  • At college, you will learn the skills and theory you need for your role and onward specialist career in manufacturing, including correct use of tooling and equipment and tooling, usage of machinery and lean methodology such as 5s and Kaizen tools.
  • Working in our technically-advanced and innovative environment, you will develop into a specialist skills vehicle repair operator, able to perform specialist manufacturing operations in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) and adhering to our safe working policies and procedures.

Where you’ll work

Washington Road

Sunderland

Tyne And Wear

SR5 3NS

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

CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE

Your training course

Lean manufacturing operative (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Your training plan

  • You will split your time between college learning and working within our world-class manufacturing plant on day-release to college once a week.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English Language (grade 3+)
  • Mathematics (grade 3+)
  • Two other subjects (grade 3+)

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

  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working

About this company

Nissan Sunderland (NMUK) is the beating heart of our UK manufacturing operations. More than 6,000 of our workforce are based here, across a 362,000m2 site of world-leading manufacturing excellence. The site is also home to its own solar and wind farms, vehicle test track and facilities like our Sports & Social complex and on-site medical centre. You’ll be working shoulder-to-shoulder with our experts in production, engineering, and maintenance, each ready to share their knowledge and support you as you grow. From the moment you step onto our shop floor, you’re treated as an equal- making real contributions to the manufacturing process and gaining life skills to take forward into your career.

Company benefits

- On-site fitness centre - Private healthcare - Discounted car scheme - Residential team building trip to Derwent Hill - Social and celebration events, monthly draws and employee discount scheme - Opportunities to take part in CSR activities

After this apprenticeship

  • Special Skills Vehicle Repair Manufacturing Staff

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NISSAN MOTOR MANUFACTURING (UK) LIMITED

Abigail Scott

abigail.scott@nissan-nmuk.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000291787.

Apply now

Closes on Friday 28 February

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