Device Engineering Apprentice

As a Device Engineering Apprentice, you will gain practical experience and foundational skills in the development and testing of engineering inhalation devices. You will support engineering teams in day-to-day activities, contributing to projects that impact product design, quality assurance, and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Assist senior engineers with the design, prototyping, and testing of devices and components.
• Support in data collection, analysis, and documentation of test results.
• Learn to use engineering tools, software, and laboratory equipment.
• Participate in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues.
• Help maintain accurate records of experiments, modifications, and procedures.
• Follow health, safety, and quality standards in all work activities.
• Attend training sessions and development workshops.
• Collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team, translating conceptual ideas or technical requirements into developmental outcomes or operational designs or specifications for products, systems or components to solve engineering challenges.
• Select, use and apply approved problem-solving methods to solve complex problems and determine appropriate solutions or actions such as Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, and Control (DMAIC), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) or Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA).
• Collate and use a range of data sources and supporting documentation to support projects.
• Interpret and produce technical documentation such as schematic and circuit diagrams, engineering drawings or 3D CAD models, simulation models, project plans, engineering reports, test reports, fault reports or data analytics using company documentation systems and guidelines.
• Observe, record and draw accurate and auditable conclusions from data or developmental or test evidence.
• Manage assigned projects or programmes of work to meet the required specification, considering resources, safety, quality, cost and performance or sustainability criteria; apply project management processes including escalation, audit or risk management and risk mitigation.
• Comply with statutory and organisational safety standards and requirements, supporting safety risk assessments and mitigating risks identified within design, manufacture, development or test activity.
• Identify resources, such as digital tools or technologies, human, equipment, materials or data, to complete design and development projects or programmes of work.
• Create and manage a project or work programme plan and develop activities in a logical process with mechanisms for adapting to changing circumstances or requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership when undertaking product design, development, modification or update engineering activities.
• Identify and rectify faults, inaccuracies, discrepancies or unexpected results during the design or development process, which may impact quality and reliability.
• Ensure that all systems or equipment have been correctly configured and checked for safe operation before use.
• Evaluate engineering designs, development or modification options.
• Identify areas for improvement and lead continuous improvement activities in the operation and performance of the product, system or component.
• Complete project documentation checks throughout the activity and report non-conformances.

Training and Qualifications

• The learner will be studying the Product design and development engineer (degree) (Level 6) Apprenticeship Standard qualification.
• Day release to West Suffolk College.
• GCSE or equivalent in Maths and English (grade 5-9).
• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills and Attributes

• Communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Organisation skills.
• Logical.
• Team working.
• Initiative.
• Problem solving skills.

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