Apprentice Maintenance Engineer

HILL BISCUITS LIMITED

Lancashire (OL7 0DB)

Closes in 20 days (Thursday 15 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 27 February 2025

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Summary

As an apprentice with us 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 as part of planned preventative and reactive maintenance programmes.

Wage

£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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£9.50

Training course
Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 8.00 am to 4.00 pm

37 hours 30 minutes 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
  • Keeping a record of preventive and emergency maintenance carried out
  • Ensuring the organisation complies with safety regulations while maintenance takes place
  • You will also deal with customers who come to collect and suppliers who deliver to the warehouse
  • You will help the team load the van for deliveries
  • You will work closely with the operations manager and the office team to ensure a smooth running of the dispatch area
  • Any other duties required

Where you’ll work

Tudno Mill
Smith Street
Ashton Under Lyne
Lancashire
OL7 0DB

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 Hill Biscuits and weekly day release at the Rochdale Training. Candidates need to ensure that they can attend both sites.

Requirements

Desirable 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
  • Experience is desirable
  • Punctuality
  • Reliability
  • Trustworthiness

Other requirements

Please research the location of Rochdale Training as well as the location of the employer to ensure that you can travel to both locations. Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week). The Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage guide is updated every April (ANMW): https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

About this company

Hill Biscuits is one of the largest and longest-established biscuit manufacturers in the United Kingdom. From its site in the heart of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Hill bakery operates 24 hours a day and produces over 100 product lines of everyday traditional biscuits – including flavoured creams, Bourbon Creams, Fruit Shorties, Gingerbread Men and Digestives – all following family recipes handed down through the generations. Started in 1855 by John and Sarah Hill from a small shop in Dukinfield, Manchester – manufacturing was scaled to meet supply in 1889 and four years later the foundation stone for the Tudno Mill factory was laid by Sarah Hill on 4th November 1893. The bakery remains the home of Hill Biscuits to this day, 130 years on.

After this apprenticeship

Progression offered to the right candidate.

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 VAC1000304883.

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Closes in 20 days (Thursday 15 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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