Manufacturing and Engineering Apprentice

Description & Requirements

As a Manufacturing and Engineering Apprentice you will be supporting the manufacturing of printed circuit board assembly and move around the company every 6 months, working in various areas of the business. You will be soldering, and preparing components, testing and much more.

The successful apprentice will be following assembly instructions and solder components to PCBA’s using a soldering iron, form components to required pitches (sizes) as per assembly instructions. You will be testing PCBA’s to ensure functionality and use specialised machines to add solder paste and then components to PCBA’s.

You will help create assembly instructions from customer data and build kits ready for production from a list generated by engineers and use controlled tooling to fit hardware/adhesives to PCBA’s and inspect components/hardware to ensure quality is reached before they are used in production.

• Level 2 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Foundation Competence)
• Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Competence) – Technical Support
• Level 3 Diploma or Extended Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (Development Knowledge)

To be considered for this role you will ideally need to have GCSE grades 9-4 (A*
- C) in English and maths.

• An interest in Electronics
• Enthusiastic & Driven

• Good organisation skills
• Good Time keeping

A career in Engineering within production or test. Technician level production staff. Opportunities to progress on successful completion of your apprenticeship.

• Caring: for each other, our customers, our suppliers and all other stakeholders
• Hardworking: with diligence, creativity, and by going the extra mile
• Integrity: through honesty with oneself and with others