Service Engineering Technician Apprentice

Description

This vacancy is for a April 2025 start date

Job description:

Multiplex Engineering Limited are looking for a Service Engineering Technician Apprentice to complete a Level 3 Engineering Fitter apprenticeship and join their team. The candidate will progress to become a Service Technician and learn skills to enable them to work on their own, repairing and testing complex equipment predominantly at our Chesterfield site but also onsite at customers' premises.

Multiplex Engineering provide equipment and service to process industries such as renewable energy, oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, power generation and work with electronic and pneumatic equipment. Our technicians will be expected to work with instrumentation, valves and safety critical equipment on site and at customers premises. We operate nationally including locations within the North Sea. Our modern site in Chesterfield has calibration and test equipment as well a machine shop. There are currently 3 apprentices working at Multiplex and we believe we provide a great opportunity for apprentices to learn a great trade and work with some of the best equipment in the industry.

Role & responsibilities:

The apprentice will be expected to be carry out work utilising hand tools, specialist test equipment and test rigs. This will require a degree of manual ability as well as a sound understanding of engineering practices. Multiplex also have an engineering workshop which makes use of machining, drilling and welding equipment. Apprentices will be taught procedures that will enable them to repair and maintain equipment to the highest standards.

Skills required:

• The apprentice must be able to work in a safe manner and be capable of following detailed instruction and carrying out procedures accurately
• A high degree of manual dexterity is required to work on complex equipment
• Attention to detail is essential as equipment may be safety critical
• Work may be physically demanding working with equipment that could be located in remote locations on site
• Work will require skills that involve electronic, electrical and pneumatic devices and a broad understanding of these will need to be developed for the candidate to excel in their career

Personal qualities the candidate must have:

The role would appeal to apprentices that have good hand skills and are practically minded. They will work closely with their mentor and they will need to learn skills quickly and accurately. They will be required to take a great deal of pride in their work. The role can be physically demanding and there will be a degree of travelling involved.

Employer description:

Multiplex Engineering operates with a very diverse range of customers at manufacturing locations such as power stations, oil refineries, renewable energy and all process industries nationally. Our technicians work on complex equipment that is critical to the safe operation of our customers' manufacturing plants. We work from our modern service facility in Chesterfield and also at our customers' locations nationally.

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.  You will return to your workplace one Friday per month.  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.

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.