Apprentice Field Service Engineer (Degree)

Description

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Job description:

Yamazaki Mazak UK Limited are looking for an Apprentice Field Service Engineer to complete a Level 6 Control Systems Engineer apprenticeship to join their team.

Role & responsibilities:

The successful candidate will develop the following:

• Gain experience in Mazatrol controls, machine operations and movements
• Gain an understanding of Mazak product range
• Servicing / Installation and breakdown repair of Mazak CNC
• Follow H&S requirements at customers' premises
• Onsite fault diagnosis
• Checking machine alignments
• Changing electrical drives, motors, encoders
• Understand mechanical drawings and schematic electrical drawings
• Field-based role across all areas of service
• Visit customers across the UK - Staying away is expected, depending on distance
• Flexible working, including weekends

Skills required:

• Basic programming knowledge required
• Good problem-solving and teamwork abilities
• Exemplary timekeeping and attendance
• Computer literate, able to use Microsoft Office suite of software
• Can communicate with customers at several levels
• Proficient at writing reports

Personal qualities the candidate must have:

• Committed
• Clean driving licence
• Team player
• Hard working

Employer description:

Yamazaki Mazak is a world-leading manufacturer of Computer Numerically Controlled Machine Tools. With a global turnover of over $2.6 Billion, over 7500 employees and 11 Manufacturing plants around the world, Mazak supplies machines to major brands and customers across the globe. The UK plant supplies machines across Europe and is also the European Headquarters. Located just outside Worcester for over 35 years, we have over 850 employees working across a broad range of roles and disciplines. Mazak offers leading-edge solutions to its customers' requirements, using the very latest engineering and technological machine methods.

Things to consider:

During the first year you will be required to attend the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre in Sheffield, full time for an initial block of study, until June 2026.  You will do a combination of return to your workplace or shadow a field engineer one Friday per month. 

After the initial block training you will undertake the knowledge study one day a week. This will require attending the AMRC Training Centre one in every four sessions remotely excluding exams and assessment days. The remaining four days will be spent in Worcester at the Mazak Europe office, for approximately 15 months, learning how to maintain their machines.  During this period you will be required to relocate to Worcester with the support of Mazak Europe.

In the third year you will be field-based whilst completing the final year of your degree study in person at the AMRC Training Centre.  In the fourth year of your apprenticeship, you will be field-based on a fulltime basis whilst completing your workplace competency qualification.

Please note the AMRC Training Centre reserves the right to close applications ahead of the published closing date.

Qualification Requirements:

Degree Apprenticeship entry requirements

You will need both of the following:

• GCSE English language C or 4 or above
• GCSE Maths C or 4 or above.

You will need one of the following:

• A minimum of two A-Levels at grade B or above, including a mathematical-based subject and a science, technology, engineering or an additional mathematics-related subject
• An Engineering BTEC Level 3 with at least 120 credits at Distinction Merit (DM) level or above
• EAL Diploma in an engineering-based subject at Distinction level
• Equivalent qualifications, such as Technical Levels at DM or above.

Candidates with an HND or Foundation Degree or who have completed the second year of a degree in a relevant subject can be assessed for direct entry onto the 2nd or 3rd year of the programme (BEng top-up), but 1st year entry or an alternative pathway may still be recommended.

Candidates who have not studied in the UK can submit transcripts for qualifications equivalent to level 3 which the admissions panel will review and may be taken in lieu of the specified qualifications.

Applicants are also required to successfully complete the AMRC Training Centre and employer recruitment and selection process to secure a place on an apprenticeship programme.

If you are uncertain about whether your qualifications meet the entry tariff for the degree apprenticeship, please contact the recruitment team at recruitment@amrctraining.co.uk.