Summary
Planning & development of production operations. Ensuring that waste in the process is eliminated & that the operation is optimised with value added work. This entails working alongside the line balancing & kaizen teams ensuring that best practices are applied.
Annual wage
£15,756 a year
Please note salary is currently under review for potential increase.
Training course
Automation and controls engineering technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
4 years
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
* Time & motion is an evaluation of work cycles. It involves using UAS which are studies of movement that are evaluated with a timing
* This is cross referenced with a basis of time allowance given by a manufacturing engineer to complete a certain operation
* The time study engineers role is to build up an operation to maximise efficiency
* The allowance for the build-up of a job is value added work (engineer time given) & waste (collection of parts, walking, waiting)
* The idea is to build the job to the most efficient method, meaning the job is mainly value added & waste minimised
Where you’ll work
North Road Industrial Estate
Ellesmere Port
South Wirral
CH65 1AL
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST
Your training course
Automation and controls engineering technician (level 4)
Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
Course contents
* Safety Effective - The ability to work safely in an industrial environment and where required, produce risk assessment and method statement documentation. Be able to apply the principles of functional machinery or process safety including SIL (Safety Integrated Level) and PL (Performance Level) terminology.
* Engineering documentation - Production and interpretation of a range of technical documentation (device manuals, operating procedures, schematics, fault reports etc), and working with company documentation systems.
* Project engineering capabilities - Support of installation, commissioning, shut-down, start-up and maintenance, service, or support of a wide range of systems and devices.
* Diagnostic capabilities - Fault finding, diagnosis, rectification and reporting of automation control systems and controls applications via the utilisation of formal problem solving methods and diagnostic tools or software.
* Instrumentation configuration and calibration - Set-up, calibrate and commission a wide variety of field level instrumentation that interfaces to automation and control systems
* Industrial Networks configuration and support - configure, assist commissioning and continued support of industrial network solutions at all hierarchical levels of control system integration using the requisite tools and or software.
* HMI and SCADA configuration and programming - Make changes to existing systems or implement new configurations.
* PLC or Robot configuration and programming - Implement complex PLC or Robot program content and configurations to affect changes to increase availability and or efficiency of automation controlled machinery and the ability to configure PLC and or Robot hardware and program a wide variety of PLC’s and or Robot’s.
* Safety Effective - The ability to work safely in an industrial environment and where required, produce risk assessment and method statement documentation. Be able to apply the principles of functional machinery or process safety including SIL (Safety Integrated Level) and PL (Performance Level) terminology.
* Engineering documentation - Production and interpretation of a range of technical documentation (device manuals, operating procedures, schematics, fault reports etc), and working with company documentation systems.
* Project engineering capabilities - Support of installation, commissioning, shut-down, start-up and maintenance, service, or support of a wide range of systems and devices.
* Diagnostic capabilities - Fault finding, diagnosis, rectification and reporting of automation control systems and controls applications via the utilisation of formal problem solving methods and diagnostic tools or software.
* Instrumentation configuration and calibration - Set-up, calibrate and commission a wide variety of field level instrumentation that interfaces to automation and control systems
* Industrial Networks configuration and support - configure, assist commissioning and continued support of industrial network solutions at all hierarchical levels of control system integration using the requisite tools and or software.
* HMI and SCADA configuration and programming - Make changes to existing systems or implement new configurations.
* PLC or Robot configuration and programming - Implement complex PLC or Robot program content and configurations to affect changes to increase availability and or efficiency of automation controlled machinery and the ability to configure PLC and or Robot hardware and program a wide variety of PLC’s and or Robot’s.
Your training plan
* In-house training plus the candidate will follow a Level 4 Apprenticeship programme and study towards a Level 4 Automation and Controls Engineering Technician
* This training will be structured and delivered by Cheshire College - South & West
* If the candidate does not hold GCSE grades A*-C (9-4) or equivalent, they will be required to complete a Level 2 Functional Skill in the relevant subject
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* English (grade C/4)
* IT (grade C/4)
* Maths (grade C/4)
* one other subject (grade C/4)
* Science (grade C/4)
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
* Maths (grade B/6)
* Science (grade B/6)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Problem solving skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Initiative
Other requirements
The plant is not on a bus route, so you will require your own transport, when based at Plant. This is a Manufacturing/ Shop floor-based industry.