Apprentice Maintenance Technician

Summary

With big ambitions for the future there has never been a better time to join Victrex! You'll receive first-class on the job training from a dedicated team, whilst earning a competitive salary - not to mention an industry recognised qualification too.

Wage: £15,113 a year
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Training course: Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday Working hours TBC
36 hours 18 minutes a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 4 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

As an Instrumentation or Mechanical Technician you will spend your first year at a specialist training facility with our training provider Westinghouse Springfields Fuels. You will learn basic engineering and craft skills, giving you a great foundation to progress.

You will then join us on site in year two, based within our training team where you will undertake more formal in-house training for the next three years with our Engineering teams.

Here are a few examples of what our Instrumentation and Mechanical Technicians do:

Have a pro-active approach to safety, considering own safety and that of colleagues and visitors
Ensuring compliance with all site, local rules and procedures Escalating any safety concerns that cant be resolved when found
Carry out scheduled Preventative Maintenance routines inline with documented procedures to reduce potential for unplanned breakdowns of equipment
Carry out Corrective Maintenance on equipment if it fails, minimising the impact on production where possible
Have a pro-active approach to all works, planning and preparing for all preventative or corrective tasks to ensure, safety and quality standards are met
Carry out or support root cause analysis of unplanned outages / fault diagnosis on equipment and identify and implement actions to prevent a reoccurrence where practical

Where you’ll work

Victrex Technology Centre

Hillhouse International

Thornton Cleveleys

Lancashire

FY5 4QD

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

SPRINGFIELDS FUELS LIMITED

Your training course

Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Your training plan

This Apprenticeship will give you an industry recognised qualification via a Level 3 in Maintenance and Operations Engineering (MOET), with many of our apprentice going on to additional study. Alongside this you will complete additional qualifications up to Level 4 standard.

This duration of this Apprenticeship Programme is 48 months and if successful, you will join our 2025 Apprenticeship Intake in September.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

5 subjects including Maths and English (grade Grade C/4 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
Problem solving skills
Logical
Team working

About this company

Victrex is an innovative world leader in high performance materials, serving a diverse range of markets. Every day, millions of people rely on products or applications which contain our polymers, from smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to oil & gas platforms and medical devices.

Company benefits

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays • Vitality Health Private Medical Insurance • Employee Pension Contribution Rate of up to 7% of Pensionable Pay and a Company contribution of up to 12%. • Enrolment in Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Working within our engineering team

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