Apprentice - Manufacturing (Level 4)

SIEMENS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Congleton (CW12 1PH)

Closes in 13 days (Monday 28 April 2025)

Posted on 28 March 2025

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Summary

We have an exciting Apprenticeship opportunity to join our Manufacturing Team. As an Apprentice, you will start your role working with Focus Factory Production Teams, learning about our products and processes. You will then move around different technical areas across the Manufacturing Department before specialising in your fourth and final year.

Wage

£23,810 a year

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Training course
Lead engineering maintenance technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday- Friday 37.5 hours per week Shifts to be confirmed

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

4 years

Positions available

4

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

  • Dive into electrical and electronic work and tackle mechanical tasks with confidence and precision
  • Join forces with your team to uncover and repair root cause faults in our equipment
  • Develop cutting-edge methods to ensure faults are a thing of the past
  • Be at the forefront of new and existing automation and digital projects in the factory
  • Keep everyone in the loop with progress updates on maintenance activities across the factory
  • Adapt and thrive in different areas of the factory
  • Empower operations colleagues with essential machine
  • Preventative Maintenance skills

Where you’ll work

Siemens House
Varey Road, Eaton Bank Trading Estate
Congleton
CW12 1PH

Training

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

College or training organisation

NEWCASTLE AND STAFFORD COLLEGES GROUP

Your training course

Lead engineering maintenance technician (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents
  • Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Apply safe systems of work.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and procedures when using resources. Segregate resources for re-use, recycling and disposal applying sustainability principles.
  • Follow manufacturers’ instructions and standard maintenance procedures.
  • Identify and document risks and hazards in the workplace. Advise on and apply control measures.
  • Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
  • Plan and schedule tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
  • Manage tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
  • Evaluate tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
  • Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders verbally.
  • Communicate in writing.
  • Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange system outage.
  • Identify potential conflicts and apply resolution strategies.
  • Identify training needs of team members in the workplace.
  • Provide technical leadership for maintenance practices and techniques.
  • Provide technical leadership for repair practices and techniques.
  • Provide technical leadership for fault finding techniques and practices.
  • Identify problems and apply methods to identify causes and solutions. Escalate issues or concerns.
  • Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, ISO9001.
  • Interpret and use information from engineering data sources to apply changes.
  • Lead on continuous improvement projects. Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
  • Manage technical handover of completed repair or maintenance activity.
  • Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management in line with breakdown, repair and maintenance activities. Comply with GDPR.
  • Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Apply safe systems of work.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and procedures when using resources. Segregate resources for re-use, recycling and disposal applying sustainability principles.
  • Follow manufacturers’ instructions and standard maintenance procedures.
  • Identify and document risks and hazards in the workplace. Advise on and apply control measures.
  • Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
  • Plan and schedule tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
  • Manage tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
  • Evaluate tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
  • Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders verbally.
  • Communicate in writing.
  • Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange system outage.
  • Identify potential conflicts and apply resolution strategies.
  • Identify training needs of team members in the workplace.
  • Provide technical leadership for maintenance practices and techniques.
  • Provide technical leadership for repair practices and techniques.
  • Provide technical leadership for fault finding techniques and practices.
  • Identify problems and apply methods to identify causes and solutions. Escalate issues or concerns.
  • Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, ISO9001.
  • Interpret and use information from engineering data sources to apply changes.
  • Lead on continuous improvement projects. Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
  • Manage technical handover of completed repair or maintenance activity.
  • Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management in line with breakdown, repair and maintenance activities. Comply with GDPR.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English Language (grade 4 or above)
  • Mathematics (grade 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
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Logical

About this company

We pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For Everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Disability Confident

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

  • Subject to a good training record, you will be made permanent in the Maintenance Engineering team

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NEWCASTLE AND STAFFORD COLLEGES GROUP

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312401.

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Closes in 13 days (Monday 28 April 2025)

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