Engineering Maintenance Apprentice

HEATSENSE CABLES LIMITED

Rochdale (OL11 2PX)

Closes in 25 days (Thursday 15 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 1 April 2025

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Summary

You will support the day-to-day running of the company ensuring that machinery is working and production isn’t affected. You will be trained to undertake installation, testing, servicing, removal, replacement, maintenance and repair of a range of equipment, sometimes complex, as part of planned preventative and reactive maintenance programmes.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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£7.55 PH We will review the candidate after this period and review hourly rate.

Training course
Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Thursday - 8.30 am to 5.00 pm (½ dinner, unpaid), Friday - 7.30 am to 4.00 pm

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 16 May 2025

Duration

3 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

  • Preventative & reactive maintenance
  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Mechanical fault finding
  • Electrical fault finding
  • Creating a maintenance plan for the organisation’s equipment
  • Establishing maintenance policies and procedures
  • Ensuring that maintenance technicians carry out planned maintenance
  • Conducting frequent quality checks on equipment to ensure no maintenance is required
  • Completing emergency maintenance when equipment breaks down
  • Managing the budget for the maintenance of equipment (advanced training after passing qualification)
  • Keeping a record of preventive and emergency maintenance carried out
  • Ensuring the organisation complies with safety regulations while maintenance takes place
  • Cleaning of machines, factory, outside factory, painting and other daily tasks will be asked to be carried out, these are none negotiable
  • You will work closely with the (Pete Howarth) Continuous improvements Manager who reports to the Operations Director (Matt Ashton). Weekly reviews will take place with Pete and the candidate, and this will be passed onto the Ops Director for review
  • Any other duties required

Where you’ll work

Unit 3
Trans Pennine Trading Estate, Gorrells Way
Rochdale
OL11 2PX

Training

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

College or training organisation

ROCHDALE TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Your training course

Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Your training plan

Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician Level 3.

Training will take place both on-site at HeatSense and weekly day release at the Rochdale Training.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • Maths and English (grade 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
  • Organisation skills
  • Team working
  • Trustworthiness
  • Reliability
  • Punctuality
  • Experience is desirable

Other requirements

This role will involve you standing on your feet daily and will be very practical.

About this company

Heatsense Cables Limited Team based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. The core business of Heatsense Cables is the manufacture and supply of specialist high performance cables that operate in extreme environments. The company offers a full technical, design support and bespoke manufacturing service. Markets include Automotive, Aerospace, Nuclear, Medical, Industrial, R & D, and Oil & Gas.

After this apprenticeship

Progression Offered to the Correct Candidate.

Full-time employment offered if the qualification’s passed and candidate meets Manager/Director approval.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ROCHDALE TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Jason Wales

jwales@rochdaletraining.co.uk

07860 919 380

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000309653.

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Closes in 25 days (Thursday 15 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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