Military RME Mechatronics Apprentice - Yorkshire & Humber Locations

Military RME Mechatronics Apprentice – Yorkshire & the Humber Locations 2026 - Fixed Term Contract

Amazon Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

RME Mechatronics Apprentice – Launch Your Engineering Career with Amazon

This role focuses on individuals with military experience and/or military spouses/children interested in working in the private sector. Amazon’s military recruiting team is available to discuss the many opportunities within Amazon. At Amazon, thousands of former military are driving innovation and raising the bar on customer experience.

Fascinated by the mechanics behind automated systems? Want to master both electrical and mechanical engineering while working with cutting‑edge technology? Amazon is the perfect place to launch your engineering career in Mechatronics Maintenance.

The Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) team keeps vital machinery running. As an RME Mechatronics Apprentice, you will maintain a wide range of equipment and work spaces while upholding health and safety best practices. You’ll learn to keep your colleagues safe and prevent machine downtime, boosting availability and quality of our equipment and enhancing the operational environment.

• Carry out proactive and preventative maintenance.
• Perform reactive repairs and fault diagnosis in a live distribution warehouse.
• Use the latest tools to maximise equipment effectiveness.
• Make modifications and upgrades to existing equipment.
• Uphold health and safety policies and practices.
• Work on continuous improvement projects.

Throughout the apprenticeship, you’ll learn fault diagnosis, preventative maintenance, fluid power systems assembly and testing, mechanical device maintenance, electrical equipment wiring and testing, hydraulics and pneumatics, and PLC operations.

You’ll respond promptly to breakdowns, investigate findings, and implement solutions quickly. You’ll also make suggestions for long‑term improvements. From CAD design and 3D printing to overseeing general site maintenance and repairing key distribution equipment, our team handles most aspects of Amazon’s technical operations.

• You are a UK national, or a non‑UK national with the right to work in the UK, or an EU national with settled status, and have lived in the UK or an EEA, or British overseas territory for 3 years or more prior to commencing the apprenticeship (September 2026).
• If you are on a visa, this must enable you to legally work and reside in England for the entire duration of the programme (September 2030).
• You will be resident of the UK for the entire duration of the program.
• You are not registered to study on a UK government funded course ending August 2026 or later.
• You will be 18 years old or older before entering an Amazon building (September 2026).
• You have a minimum of 3 GCSEs at Grades 9–4 / A–C (or equivalent):
  Maths, English and a science/technology subject.
• Previous qualifications will be reviewed for funding eligibility and those not eligible will have offer withdrawn.
• Required proof of all qualifications must be submitted; the deadline for providing qualification certificates for the RME Mechatronics programme is 17 July 2026.
• This position is a 36–48 month fixed‑term contract. You must not already have a qualification in a similar subject at the same or higher level than this apprenticeship.
• This Apprenticeship assumes the candidate has little or no knowledge/experience of the occupation.

• You have 5 GCSEs at Grades 9–4 / A–C (or equivalent), including Maths, English and a science/technology subject.
• You have achieved or are studying towards a T‑Level in an Engineering subject or ‘A’ Levels with a bias towards science & technology, or another Engineering subject or studying for ‘A’ levels with a bias towards science and technology.

As part of the recruitment and enrolment process for this apprenticeship, candidates must provide proof of all required qualifications. Original certificates or certified copies must be submitted. Applications without verified qualifications by 17 July 2026 will be automatically unsuccessful.…