Sewing Apprentice - REF 14805 – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

Senator International in Altham are recruiting for a Sewing Apprentice. The successful candidate will work towards completing a Level 2 Sewing Machinist apprenticeship over the duration of 18 months.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Sewing machinist (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Thursday between 7:00am - 4:00pm / Friday 7:00am - 12:45pm / unpaid breaks included.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 21 July 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

Complete initial checks and carry out sewing machinist operations to meet product instructions, quality and speed standards.
Complete quality assurance activities, for example, checking stitching.
Rectify sewn product output issues. For example, undo stitching and re-sew items.
Prepare products for the next stage in the process. For example, batches, packing, and despatch.
Contribute to maintaining good Health & Safety, environmental and sustainable practice.
Conduct basic maintenance to ensure equipment and machinery efficiency meets production expectations.
Complete work records on production and quality check data.
Contribute to continuous improvement and problem-solving activities.

Where you’ll work

Syke Side Drive
Altham Business Park
Accrington
Lancashire
BB5 5YE

Training

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

College or training organisation

NORTH LANCS. TRAINING GROUP CIC

Your training course

Sewing machinist (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Follow work instructions for example, specifications, standard operating procedures, and specific instructions.
Organise resources for example, equipment, components, and tools.
Check working environment for hazards.
Apply safe working practices including guards, seat positioning, safety clothing, and manual handling.
Apply sustainability principles for example, minimise energy usage and waste.
Identify and segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
Lay out equipment, components, and resources.
Inspect cut or pre-sewn components before sewing; identify and resolve issues.
Select and insert needles.
Select thread.
Fill and insert spool and thread a sewing machine.
Select the sewing machine settings.
Conduct sewing machine test run for example, pre-production, following threading up, adjustments, or maintenance.
Make sewing machine adjustments for example, stitch tension.
Operate, monitor, and control a sewing machine for example, lockstitch, linker, blind hemmer, overlocker, cup seam, and coverstitch machine.
Control material feed.
Conduct quality checks.
Identify needle damage.
Identify and resolve sewing issues for example, skip stitch, lose stitch, or pucker stitch.
Follow post-production procedure for example, re-bundle, bag up, and attach work ticket.
Enter information to track work process for example, work dockets, documentation, or electronic tracking system.
Select maintenance tools.
Remove and replace sewing machine parts for example, the presser foot, throat plate, spool, and spool case.
Clean sewing machine and machine parts.
Check oil.
Use information technology and digital systems for example, real time system or computerised sewing machine settings.
Communicate with others for example, other machinists, senior machinists, production staff, supervisors, and team leaders.
Report issues for example, product quality and machine faults.
Apply team working principles.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Monitor own performance.
Complete and record learning and development activities.
Follow work instructions for example, specifications, standard operating procedures, and specific instructions.
Organise resources for example, equipment, components, and tools.
Check working environment for hazards.
Apply safe working practices including guards, seat positioning, safety clothing, and manual handling.
Apply sustainability principles for example, minimise energy usage and waste.
Identify and segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
Lay out equipment, components, and resources.
Inspect cut or pre-sewn components before sewing; identify and resolve issues.
Select and insert needles.
Select thread.
Fill and insert spool and thread a sewing machine.
Select the sewing machine settings.
Conduct sewing machine test run for example, pre-production, following threading up, adjustments, or maintenance.
Make sewing machine adjustments for example, stitch tension.
Operate, monitor, and control a sewing machine for example, lockstitch, linker, blind hemmer, overlocker, cup seam, and coverstitch machine.
Control material feed.
Conduct quality checks.
Identify needle damage.
Identify and resolve sewing issues for example, skip stitch, lose stitch, or pucker stitch.
Follow post-production procedure for example, re-bundle, bag up, and attach work ticket.
Enter information to track work process for example, work dockets, documentation, or electronic tracking system.
Select maintenance tools.
Remove and replace sewing machine parts for example, the presser foot, throat plate, spool, and spool case.
Clean sewing machine and machine parts.
Check oil.
Use information technology and digital systems for example, real time system or computerised sewing machine settings.
Communicate with others for example, other machinists, senior machinists, production staff, supervisors, and team leaders.
Report issues for example, product quality and machine faults.
Apply team working principles.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Monitor own performance.
Complete and record learning and development activities.

Your training plan

Level 2 Sewing Machinist.
Functional Skills.
Work-based learning.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

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

Problem solving skills
Team working
Confident
Willing to learn

About this company

From our humble beginnings in 1976, the business has gone from strength to strength and this would not have been possible without our team of skilled and knowledgeable staff. As a testament to our success, we now employ over 1,200 employees globally. The Senator Group is all about its people. We recognise that our people are our most valuable asset and we invest and work hard to make sure our working environment is welcoming, friendly, supportive, inclusive, and rewarding for all. Working at The Senator Group isn’t just a job, it’s a vocation. As an entirely family-owned business, Senator offers a culture that has been developed over 45 years. It’s a culture of wanting to push, innovate, develop and create. We’re a group of big thinkers with our feet on the ground. We’re a business filled with the ambitious and humble, filled with creativity and craft, dedication and authenticity. We put our heart and soul into everything we do because that's what we’re made of. We treat our factory workers like the craftspeople they are. We provide each with the security of a long-term career, training, and progression, instilling pride in their work every day, with every product they produce.

After this apprenticeship

Progression into full-time employment.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NORTH LANCS. TRAINING GROUP CIC

Recruitment

recruitment@nltg.co.uk

01254395355

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315639.

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Closes on Monday 14 July 2025

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