Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineering Apprentice; Level 3 Engineering - Mechatronics

Introduction

The apprenticeship will cover a wide variety of electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines, working alongside experienced and skilled maintenance staff building fundamental skills that will enable you to solve any challenge that you are presented; no job will be too big or too small.

Bostik is a leading global adhesive specialist in construction, consumer and industrial markets. For more than a century, it has been developing innovative sealing and bonding solutions that are smarter and more adaptive to the forces that shape daily lives. From cradle to grave, from home to office, Bostik’s smart adhesives can be found everywhere.

As a multi‑skilled maintenance engineering apprentice you will be part of a structured 4‑year apprenticeship programme with the long‑term goal of joining the engineering team as a fully skilled maintenance engineer. Being an apprentice at Bostik means that you will develop and hone your engineering skills in a culture with health and safety at its core.

• Work to safe engineering procedures and site safety rules
• Attend any college courses on time and in full
• Have an enthusiastic approach to learn
• Complete and maintain a logbook throughout the entirety of your apprenticeship

• How to maintain a variety of industrial machinery in multiple engineering disciplines
• Different approaches to fault finding and rectification work
• Work on multi‑discipline systems – electro‑pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical control systems
• Electrical installations
• Mechanical installations
• Product transfer system installation (pipe work)
• General fabrication – welding, bench fitting etc.
• Component manufacture – lathes, milling machines, grinders etc.
• Understand and interpret engineering drawings – electrical schematics, assembly drawings, component drawings etc.

To join the existing engineering team on site.

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Problem‑solving skills
• Team working
• Initiative

• GCSE – 5 subjects including Maths, English and Science – C/4 or above

• Course:
  Mechatronics maintenance technician (Level
  3)
• Level: 3
• Route:
  Engineering and manufacturing
• Apprenticeship Level: Advanced

• Working week:
  Shift system basis. Early shift – 6am-2pm (Monday-Thursday) and 6am-midday (Friday). Late shift – 2pm‑10pm (Monday-Thursday) and midday-10pm (Friday). Rotation between shifts, in accordance with the rota notified to you by your manager.
• Expected duration: 4years
• Number of positions available: 2
• Training provider: LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE

This employer is part of the Disability Confident scheme, committed to employing disabled people.