Description

Job description:

Tribosonics Limited are looking for Project engineer apprentice to complete a Level 6 Manufacturing engineering degree apprenticeship and join their team. The candidate will assist in implementation of measurement technologies into customer systems through research, testing, development, manufacture and implementation of ultrasonic sensors and instrumentation.

Role & responsibilities:

Engineering

Manufacture prototypes for visualisation as well as test purposes;

  • Carry out machining on milling machine and lathe
  • Carry out additive manufacturing using available resources
  • Manage the process of outsourcing more complex machining tasks
  • Prototypes are to be of high quality

Support the production of prototype designs based upon experimentation results;

  • Research other solutions and carefully document findings
  • Brainstorm and design possible solutions
  • Sourcing components from bill of materials

Oversee preparation and finalisation of experimental investigations;

  • Read and understand risk assessments
  • Prepare lab/workshop with correct materials and equipment
  • Pack away materials and equipment after testing

Support with experimental investigations;

  • Source materials and equipment from suppliers
  • Carry out testing
  • Recording of data/findings
  • Take responsibility for testing documentation
  • Be professional if carrying out work on client sites

Support the analysis and report on results of experimentation;

  • Carry out data processing
  • Plot results in suitable formats (Excel)
  • Care taken with data formatting
  • Assist with the writing of reports
  • Data and results sufficiently documented and archived so they may be used in the future

Perform practical work in a safe and controlled manner to ensure both quality of work and the safety of yourself and others;

  • Follow works procedures carefully
  • Results are both accurate and repeatable
  • Results recorded in a clear manner and well documented
  • Compliance to H&S regulations and Tribosonics practices

On site work;

  • Create method statements, risk assessments
  • Create packing lists and resource sourcing
  • Support line manager during industrial visits
Project Management

Manage suppliers to ensure ordered parts are delivered on schedule, to cost and to specification;

  • Parts delivered on time
  • Parts delivered at agreed price
  • Parts are to specification
  • Provide regular update on progress to line manager
  • Regular meetings to be agreed with line manager
General

Ensure that Tribosonics is a healthy and safe working environment;

  • Ensure relevant Risk Assessments are created to enable you to safely carry out your work
  • Report any Health and Safety issues you notice

Conduct work for Tribosonics in a professional manner;

  • Appropriate attire for meetings and customer/supplier visits
  • Professionalism in all communications

Assist with other tasks as requested, including being responsible for the laboratory or office on a rota basis;

  • To help ensure the lab and office remain safe and clean for the benefit of staff and customers
  • Organising the shipping of products and components

Play a role in improving the company;

  • Attendance and contribution to team meetings and discussions

Skills required:

  • Good organisational and time-management skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Good analytical skills
  • Good IT skills (able to do word processing, use spreadsheets, send and receive emails and use the internet) 

Personal qualities the candidate must have:

  • A keen interest in engineering and how things work
  • Determination to succeed
  • An interest in solving problems
  • Must have good attendance, be punctual and reliable

Employer description:

Tribosonics drive transformation at scale by combining our unique sensing products with a value driven commercial problem-solving approach.

This enables us to extract smart, targeted data that delivers significant value for business and industry.

Our products use embedded ultrasonic measurement technologies generating smart data through unmatched information density, resolution and speed at a component level.

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 one 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, one 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:

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 DM (Distinction Merit) level or above

  • EAL Diploma in an engineering-based subject at D (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.


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