Electrical & Electronic Engineering Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

You will be allocated to an engineering team of between 4 to 6 engineers. Each engineering team is responsible for delivering unique systems for different projects and customers. Apprentices will form part of the team with the 4+ year process intended to deliver competencies as detailed below.

Wage: £21,000 a year
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Training course: Electrical or electronic technical support engineer (degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday. Shifts TBC
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Tuesday 2 September
Duration: 3 years
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

We will teach you to:

Develop, write, fault find, test & commission various manufacturers PLC systems.
Design and program various manufacturers SCADA systems
Undertake electrical design and create wiring schematics and general arrangement layouts
for control panels.
Become competent and knowledgeable on networking of systems and cyber-security principles.
Undertake commissioning activities at industrial clients’ sites and understand the real-life connections & interfaces of our systems.
Develop knowledge about our client’s businesses and needs.
Develop systems that meet our customer needs and solves specific issues or problems for them.
Construct and implement system architectures in industrial/energy settings.
Understand the commercial aspects of our business, how project costs are built up and maintained.
Take responsibility for, and work towards achieving your project tasks & targets.

During their apprenticeship, young engineers will be cycled through some of the following departments for a period of around 3 months in each to help round their experience of our business generally:

Sales / Bid team
Workshop / practical / panel wiring experience.
Admin / Accounts team
Software development team
Support / Service Team

Where you’ll work

UNIT 7

NORFOLK BRIDGE BUSINESS PARK

FOLEY STREET

SHEFFIELD

S4 7YW

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

SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Electrical or electronic technical support engineer (degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

How to comply with statutory requirements and stringent organisational safety requirements
Producing components using hand fitting techniques
Producing Electrical or Electronic Drawings using a Computer Aided Design (CAD) system
Preparing and using lathes, milling and other general or specialist machines and High Tech equipment
Wiring and testing electrical equipment, assembling and testing electronic circuits
Using computer software packages to assist with engineering activities
Producing engineering project plans
Maintaining and improving electrical equipment and systems
Project management in undertaking engineering activities
Producing and working to engineering specifications and briefs, presenting and technical problem solving
Scheduling and managing engineering activities
Electrical and electronic product manufacturing and testing
Demonstrating technical and commercial management in planning and managing tasks and resources

Your training plan

The degree award is BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering
You will be required to attend Sheffield Hallam University on day release.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

A Level or equivalent in:

Maths, Science or Engineering (grade BBC / Distinction Merit Merit)

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
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Initiative
Patience
Team Player
Positive Attitude

About this company

Inspec Solutions work across a wide range of industries including Manufacturing, Metals, Energy, Infrastructure, Processing and Education and Research, leading to many interesting and exciting opportunities for our Engineers to work on new and emerging projects. Inspec also work on offshore rigs and competent Engineers can obtain their Off-shore ticket through us to work in this area.

After this apprenticeship

Upon completion of the degree and apprenticeship program, we would expect you to be promoted to Control Systems Engineer status & further your career with us, working in a much more autonomous & responsible role within one of the teams.

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