Facilities and Engineering Apprentice in Kent

Working with the Engineering/Facilities Team to learn and carry out routine maintenance, fault finding, and repair of all plant manufacturing equipment and building services, ensuring full compliance with cGMP, the Company's Quality Assurance Policy, and Standard Operating Procedures.

If you move to a rotating shift pattern you will receive a 17.5% shift premium on top of basic salary. Salary will increase as the apprenticeship progresses and milestones are reached.

Duration: 4 years. Hours: Monday to Friday, initially 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. After the first year you may be required to work a rotating shift pattern: one week 6:00 am to 2:00 pm; one week 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm (ending at 8:30 pm on Friday). Total: 37 hours 30 minutes per week.

Most of the apprenticeship is spent working on-the-job. You’ll learn by gaining hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work:

• Plan and execute general repairs, fault finding, maintenance, routine and major upkeep of machinery and service equipment, minimising downtime and maintaining accurate records and files.
• Provide specialist electrical and mechanical support in plant and related areas, for both project and general maintenance work.
• Create and modify electrical records, drawings and diagrams for plant and associated areas.
• Perform daily checks and calibration tasks, ensuring they are carried out on time, correctly and in line with SOPs.
• Carry out equipment changes according to the company's Quality Assurance programme and Change Control procedures.

Where you'll work:

Flagship House Victory Way Crossways Dartford Kent DA2 6QD

Training:

Apprenticeships include time away from work for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills. Training provider: IPS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED. Training course: Engineering maintenance technician – dual discipline (level 3).

Key responsibilities include:

• Review and use information such as work instructions, drawings, design specifications, and plant configurations.
• Use planning, prioritising, organising, and time-management techniques to plan tasks.
• Identify and organise resources to complete tasks, e.g., consumables.
• Adapt to changing work demands and re-prioritise workloads to react to breakdowns and fault scenarios.
• Check plant configuration before work.
• Prepare the work area for maintenance tasks.
• Identify environmental and health & safety hazards and apply control measures.
• Apply health, safety, and environmental procedures in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
• Follow security procedures, site access, document classification, and asset securing.
• Follow emergency incident and response procedures.
• Apply sustainability principles, e.g., minimising waste and recycling.
• Use mathematical principles and formulae to support engineering maintenance.
• Apply engineering maintenance standards and procedures.
• Apply foreign material exclusion procedures.
• Follow maintenance tools and equipment control procedures, including handling and storage.
• Re-instate the work area.
• Apply team working principles.
• Communicate with colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
• Escalate issues outside your responsibility limits.
• Record information and produce or amend documents such as handover notes and reports.
• Identify and highlight issues with technical drawings.
• Use digital and information technology while complying with cyber security and GDPR.
• Apply continuous improvement techniques to suggest improvements.
• Carry out and record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
• Confirm safe electrical isolation lockout–tagout and test for dead.
• Select, check, and use electrical, control, instrumentation, and mechanical maintenance tools, measurement, and test equipment.
• Use diagnostic equipment to perform fault finding and rectification.
• Inspect and test electrical and mechanical aspects of plant.
• Remove and replace electrical and mechanical parts, prepare and terminate cables, set up and adjust control and instrumentation systems, and perform functional testing.
• Check calibration, loop function, and mechanical operation.

Year 1:

• Day release (Tuesdays) focuses on knowledge.
• Skills training delivered in blocks of 4 weeks (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday).
• Focus on fundamentals to prepare the learner for the workplace.

Year 2:

• Day release (Mondays) focuses on knowledge.
• Workplace integration.
• Workplace visits from the IPS trainer every 4–6 weeks.

Years 3 and 4:

• Monthly day release during year 3 to work on an engineering project.
• Continued workplace visits from the IPS trainer every 4–6 weeks.
• Learner prepared for transition into a gateway apprenticeship assessment, completing all requirements of the apprenticeship.

Requirements:

• GCSE in English, Maths and Science (grade 4/C and above).
• Other relevant qualifications and industry experience accepted; the apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect existing knowledge.

Skills:

• Initiative
• Flexibility
• Sociability
• Self-motivated
• Reliability
• Ability to work at heights

Other requirements:

Enrolment onto the apprenticeship programme is subject to prior attainment checks and a review of your Personal Learning Record upon successful appointment. We will follow the eligibility guidelines set out by the government apprenticeship funding rules.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance
• Private Health and Dental cover

Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, there is the possibility of a permanent position.

Contact:

IPS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Mandy Rai
01634 298808

Reference code: VAC2000033654.