Engineering technician apprenticeship

Description

Job description:

Unilever are looking for an Engineering technician to complete a Level 3 apprenticeship to join their team. Mechatronics maintenance technicians ensure that plant and equipment perform to the required standard to facilitate production targets regarding Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost within High Value Manufacturing environments.

Typically, the work would cover a broad range of activities including installation, testing, fault finding and the ongoing planned maintenance of complex automated equipment. This requires the application of a complex blend of skills, knowledge, and occupational behaviours across the electrical, electronic, mechanical, fluid power and control systems disciplines.

Role & responsibilities:

• Carrying out fault diagnosis on engineered systems
• Carrying out preventative planned maintenance on engineered systems
• Assembling and testing fluid power systems
• Maintaining mechanical devices and equipment
• Wiring and testing electrical equipment and circuits 
• Hydraulics and pneumatics
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLCs)
• Health and Safety in the Engineering workplace
• Communications for engineering technicians
• Mathematics for engineering technicians
• Engineering Project
• Mechanical Principles of engineering systems
• Electrical and electronic principles in engineering
• Application and principles of PLCs
• Monitoring and fault diagnosis of engineering systems
• Maintenance of mechanical systems
• Electro Pneumatic systems

Skills required:

• Good communication skills
• Experience of adapting own skills to new circumstances
• Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to meet deadlines

Personal qualities the candidate must have:

• Must be capable of working within a team environment
• Ability to problem solve in variety of situations
• Ability to assess and organise resources, and plan and progress work activities

Employer description:

Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, pioneering & innovating for over 120 years & enhancing the lives of over 2.5 billion consumers every day using our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life.

Producing over 400 brands across 190 countries gives us a unique opportunity to create positive change, grow our business and achieve our purpose of making sustainable living commonplace. Our products range from nutritious foods, household care essentials, indulgent ice creams, refreshing teas, luxurious shampoos, disease combating soaps… and many more. This means you will find at least one of our products in seven out of ten households on the planet. By joining our Engineering team as an apprentice, you will become part of our inclusive community of over 8000 of the most highly skilled Engineers worldwide, spanning across 320+ factories. Working together, supporting each other, and implementing the latest technology and design to build ground-breaking solutions and innovations.

Things to consider:

During the first year you will be required to attend the University of Sheffield’s AMRC Training Centre based in Catcliffe, Sheffield, for an initial block of full-time study.  One Friday per month you will return to your workplace.  After the initial block training you will attend the AMRC Training Centre for one day a week to undertake the knowledge study.  The remaining four days will be spent in company learning on the job.

Unless exemptions apply, year 1 apprentices are required to live full time in Sheffield for 24 weeks in university accommodation so that they can attend the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre in Sheffield. 

Future programme years apprentices are required to continue attending the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre in Sheffield, for example, 1 day per month which will require travel and overnight hotel accommodation.

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

Qualification Requirements:

Advanced Apprenticeships entry requirements

You will need both of the following:

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

Applicants are also required to successfully complete a series of assessments at the University of Sheffield’s AMRC Training Centre, as well as an employer recruitment and selection process to secure a place on an apprenticeship programme.

Apprenticeship applications are open for 2024.

Apply now.