Manufacturing Engineering Apprentice

What is a Manufacturing Engineering Apprentice?

Our Manufacturing Engineering Apprenticeship provides the Global Operations Division with talent to meet the current and future demand of the division. You will contribute in many ways to support the division; this includes understanding and supporting our operations technicians assemble and test our instruments and sub-assemblies. This is to ensure we meet our customers’ requirements, you will also be involved in maintaining the manufacturing sites equipment, supporting in the evaluation of new components from suppliers and supporting with the introduction of new products from our Research and Design facilities.

This is a hands-on practical apprenticeship that will allow you to develop skills in mechanical & electrical instrument build & testing, fault-finding, and improvement project management across our site.

Description of Apprenticeship Program:

Year 1

You will attend college one or two days per week on a day release basis where you will learn practical & theoretical engineering knowledge in a range of subjects whilst working towards your qualification.

You will rotate around the business in various placements, spending time in the different assembly/production area’s and with the team of engineer’s we have onsite.

Years 2 onwards

You will continue to attend college on a day release basis for one or two days per week.

You will continue to work with the engineering team and manufacturing to learn about product requirements and functional specifications. Looking at how our systems controls the release for new or improved parts. You will also support in the delivery of New Product Introductions

You will evaluate failure trend & capability data to support in delivering improvement projects.

Understand our customers by learning from our product & application specialists.

Take part in Continuous Improvement activities suggesting and delivering improvements in a structured project-based approach.

Supporting the engineers onsite and with the Research and Development team, during their work building and evaluating prototypes.

You will be involved in supporting Quality Processes and Quality audits.

General Requirements:

Good communication skills, enabling successful interaction with team leaders, fellow engineering team members and management.

Self-motivated with drive to keep on top of all college work and research into the products that are produced on site and within the Revvity group.

A pro-active approach to problem identification and resolution.

Willing to work within structured development program and take responsibility for personal development.

Able to critically look at performance and engineering practices to define and improve departmental procedures.

Scientific / Engineering interests

Travel: 

Both domestic and international travel is required in this role on an occasional basis.

Qualifications:

GCSE grades minimum grade C, including Maths, English, Science and other relevant subjects such as Engineering or Product Design.

Good written and oral communication skills.

Experience in software packages including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook

Self-motivated, detail-oriented and passion for learning with a practical mindset.

Good organizational skills.