Business Administration (buying) Apprentice

Summary

Impress Group has established a reputation for quality and service, manufacturing a vast range of machined, fabricated, welded, pressed, painted and laser cut components to our customer’s specification. We are now looking for a Purchasing Apprentice to join our team.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Engineering design technician (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Thursday, 7.30am - 4.30pm Friday 7.30am - 12.30pm

37 hours a week

Start date

Saturday 21 June 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Key Responsibilities:

Data Entry: Inputting data into databases or systems, maintaining accurate records.
Answering Phones: Handling phone calls, directing them to the appropriate person, or taking messages.
Scheduling: Managing calendars, scheduling meetings, and booking appointments for managers or staff.
Filing and Organizing: Maintaining both physical and digital files, ensuring all documents are correctly organized and accessible.
Correspondence: Assisting in writing and sending emails, letters, and other forms of communication.
Customer Service: Interacting with clients, customers, or visitors and providing assistance when needed.
Handling Office Supplies: Monitoring inventory of office supplies and placing orders when necessary.
Supporting Administrative Team: Assisting other administrative staff with tasks such as preparing reports, arranging travel, and managing office workflows.
General Office Tasks: Maintaining a clean and organized office environment, including tasks like photocopying, scanning, and printing documents.

Where you’ll work

RYTON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
NEWBURN BRIDGE ROAD
BLAYDON ON TYNE
NE21 4SQ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

TDR TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Engineering design technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
Select materials and parts.
Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
Provide feedback on engineering designs.
Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
Read, interpret and establish design intent.
Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
Option 1. Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
Option 1. Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
Option 1. Identify cable types and application.
Option 1. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
Option 2. Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
Option 2. Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
Option 2. Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
Option 2. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
Option 3. Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
Option 3. Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
Option 3. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
Option 4. Produce general arrangements of piping design.
Option 4. Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
Option 4. Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
Option 5. Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
Option 5. Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
Option 5. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.
Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
Select materials and parts.
Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
Provide feedback on engineering designs.
Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
Read, interpret and establish design intent.
Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.

Your training plan

Level 3 Engineering design technician apprenticeship standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English Language or English Literature (grade 4/C or above)
Maths (grade 4/C or above)

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
Patience

About this company

Impress Group, founded in 1997 by directors George Peel and Steven Young are located in Blaydon on Tyne on a site in excess of 52,000 2ft, offering a complete sub-contract engineering service in the North East. With a combined experience of over 65 years in the engineering industry, we offer a world-class service, incorporating a high-quality product with a distinguished level of customer service

https://impressltd.co.uk/about/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Full-time position may be offered to right candidate upon completion of the apprenticeship

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

TDR TRAINING LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000310867.

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Closes in 26 days (Wednesday 14 May 2025)

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Company’s application instructions

VERY IMPORTANT: Applications will be directed to the TDR website where you shall complete a short sign-up form. It is very important that you indicate Impress in the form. Failure to do this may delay your application.

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