Apprentice Mechanical Fitter Level 3
RADICON TRANSMISSION UK LIMITED
WEST YORKSHIRE (HX5 9DA)
Closes in 31 days (Friday 30 May 2025)
Posted on 7 April 2025
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Summary
Assembly fitter. Requires the necessary skills to be able to build new products from drawing, dismantle down and rebuild ours and our competitors’ products.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Wednesday, 07:30 to 16:15.
Thursday, 07:30 to 15:45.
Friday, 07:30 to 12:00.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 1 June 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- The apprentice will shadow an engineering mentor daily and learn a range of new skills and they will be required to pick parts, read assembly drawings, assemble parts to drawing.
- Dismantle gearboxes and rebuild using photographic evidence.
- Machining of parts when required to achieve endfloats and gear backlash.
- Accurate measuring of parts and attention to detail is a must within this engineering environment.
Where you’ll work
UNIT J3 LOWFIELDS WAY
LOWFIELDS BUSINESS PARK
ELLAND
WEST YORKSHIRE
HX5 9DA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CALDERDALE COLLEGE
Your training course
Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
- Follow health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, segregation of resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, British Standards (BS), International Organisation for Standardisation standards (ISO). European Norm (EN).
- Analyse engineering and manufacturing data and information to support technical outputs. For example, read and interpret text, data, engineering drawings, work instructions, method statements, operation manuals.
- Apply scientific, technical or engineering principles.
- Apply problem solving techniques to solutions for identified technical problems.
- Organise, plan and prioritise workflow and scheduling of work with stakeholders.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Produce job specific technical outputs. For example, engineering drawings, quality control management, computer control programming, business improvement, adverse incident reports, technical investigations, equipment appraisals and specifications.
- Provide support and guidance for handover of work to stakeholders. For example, checklists, product or process status, access to supporting documents.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, checklists.
- Follow standard operating procedures.
- Follow manufacturer's instructions. For example, safe instructions for use of products, processes and machinery.
- Apply quality assurance and control principles and practices. For example, conduct physical checks, take samples, inspections or tests.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, stakeholders, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Follow health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, segregation of resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, British Standards (BS), International Organisation for Standardisation standards (ISO). European Norm (EN).
- Analyse engineering and manufacturing data and information to support technical outputs. For example, read and interpret text, data, engineering drawings, work instructions, method statements, operation manuals.
- Apply scientific, technical or engineering principles.
- Apply problem solving techniques to solutions for identified technical problems.
- Organise, plan and prioritise workflow and scheduling of work with stakeholders.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Produce job specific technical outputs. For example, engineering drawings, quality control management, computer control programming, business improvement, adverse incident reports, technical investigations, equipment appraisals and specifications.
- Provide support and guidance for handover of work to stakeholders. For example, checklists, product or process status, access to supporting documents.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, checklists.
- Follow standard operating procedures.
- Follow manufacturer's instructions. For example, safe instructions for use of products, processes and machinery.
- Apply quality assurance and control principles and practices. For example, conduct physical checks, take samples, inspections or tests.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, stakeholders, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
Your training plan
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths and English (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
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Mechanically Minded
- Practical
- Punctual
- Willing to Learn
About this company
Radicon is committed to being the premier supplier of high quality, standard, modified standard and custom engineered gearboxes. The Radicon product range, not only consists of the traditional standard product offering of worm gears, geared motors, couplings and industrial reducers, but also includes custom engineered gearboxes with an output torque range over 6 million Nm. The flexibility of our products, and the experience of our engineering design teams means we can design solutions to suit our customer’s exact requirements in a wide range of applications and industries.
After this apprenticeship
Full time position.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CALDERDALE COLLEGE
Shannon Ingham
Shannon.Ingham@calderdale.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314313.
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Closes in 31 days (Friday 30 May 2025)
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