Industrial Engineer Apprentice

Stellantis

South Wirral, CH65 1AL

Closes on Friday 28 February

Posted on 16 January 2025

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Summary

Planning & development of production operations. Ensuring that waste in the process is eliminated & that the operation is optimised with value added work. This entails working alongside the line balancing & kaizen teams ensuring that best practices are applied.

Annual wage
£15,756 a year

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Please note salary is currently under review for potential increase.

Training course
Automation and controls engineering technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Possible start date

Monday 1 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

  • Time & motion is an evaluation of work cycles. It involves using UAS which are studies of movement that are evaluated with a timing
  • This is cross referenced with a basis of time allowance given by a manufacturing engineer to complete a certain operation
  • The time study engineers role is to build up an operation to maximise efficiency
  • The allowance for the build-up of a job is value added work (engineer time given) & waste (collection of parts, walking, waiting)
  • The idea is to build the job to the most efficient method, meaning the job is mainly value added & waste minimised

Where you’ll work

North Road Industrial Estate

Ellesmere Port

South Wirral

CH65 1AL

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

CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST

Your training course

Automation and controls engineering technician (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents
  • Safety Effective - The ability to work safely in an industrial environment and where required, produce risk assessment and method statement documentation. Be able to apply the principles of functional machinery or process safety including SIL (Safety Integrated Level) and PL (Performance Level) terminology.
  • Engineering documentation - Production and interpretation of a range of technical documentation (device manuals, operating procedures, schematics, fault reports etc), and working with company documentation systems.
  • Project engineering capabilities - Support of installation, commissioning, shut-down, start-up and maintenance, service, or support of a wide range of systems and devices.
  • Diagnostic capabilities - Fault finding, diagnosis, rectification and reporting of automation control systems and controls applications via the utilisation of formal problem solving methods and diagnostic tools or software.
  • Instrumentation configuration and calibration - Set-up, calibrate and commission a wide variety of field level instrumentation that interfaces to automation and control systems
  • Industrial Networks configuration and support - configure, assist commissioning and continued support of industrial network solutions at all hierarchical levels of control system integration using the requisite tools and or software.
  • HMI and SCADA configuration and programming - Make changes to existing systems or implement new configurations.
  • PLC or Robot configuration and programming - Implement complex PLC or Robot program content and configurations to affect changes to increase availability and or efficiency of automation controlled machinery and the ability to configure PLC and or Robot hardware and program a wide variety of PLC’s and or Robot’s.
  • Safety Effective - The ability to work safely in an industrial environment and where required, produce risk assessment and method statement documentation. Be able to apply the principles of functional machinery or process safety including SIL (Safety Integrated Level) and PL (Performance Level) terminology.
  • Engineering documentation - Production and interpretation of a range of technical documentation (device manuals, operating procedures, schematics, fault reports etc), and working with company documentation systems.
  • Project engineering capabilities - Support of installation, commissioning, shut-down, start-up and maintenance, service, or support of a wide range of systems and devices.
  • Diagnostic capabilities - Fault finding, diagnosis, rectification and reporting of automation control systems and controls applications via the utilisation of formal problem solving methods and diagnostic tools or software.
  • Instrumentation configuration and calibration - Set-up, calibrate and commission a wide variety of field level instrumentation that interfaces to automation and control systems
  • Industrial Networks configuration and support - configure, assist commissioning and continued support of industrial network solutions at all hierarchical levels of control system integration using the requisite tools and or software.
  • HMI and SCADA configuration and programming - Make changes to existing systems or implement new configurations.
  • PLC or Robot configuration and programming - Implement complex PLC or Robot program content and configurations to affect changes to increase availability and or efficiency of automation controlled machinery and the ability to configure PLC and or Robot hardware and program a wide variety of PLC’s and or Robot’s.

Your training plan

  • In-house training plus the candidate will follow a Level 4 Apprenticeship programme and study towards a Level 4 Automation and Controls Engineering Technician
  • This training will be structured and delivered by Cheshire College -  South & West
  • If the candidate does not hold GCSE grades A*-C (9-4) or equivalent, they will be required to complete a Level 2 Functional Skill in the relevant subject

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade C/4)
  • IT (grade C/4)
  • Maths (grade C/4)
  • one other subject (grade C/4)
  • Science (grade C/4)

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

  • Maths (grade B/6)
  • Science (grade B/6)

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
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem solving skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

The plant is not on a bus route, so you will require your own transport, when based at Plant. This is a Manufacturing/ Shop floor-based industry.

About this company

We are Stellantis, born in 2021 and created through the merger of Groupe PSA and FCA Group. Stellantis is a provider of distinctive, exciting and sustainable mobility solutions. Our Company’s strength lies in the diversity and passion of our 300,000 people all around the world and the rich portfolio of iconic automotive brands. Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Vauxhall and Jeep are just a few of the well-known names that sit in the Stellantis family. We are re-introducing Higher and Degree Apprenticeships in 2023 at our Ellesmere Port site, building multi-brand Electric Vans. If you want to make an impact and launch a career in an automotive global leader, we want to hear from you!

After this apprenticeship

  • Progression into team leader and managerial roles

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST

Sophie Cain

sophie.cain@ccsw.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000296763.

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Closes on Friday 28 February

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