Summary
The successful candidate will join our dynamic and free-thinking engineering team responsible for designing new product and supporting the existing product range.
Wage
£23,019 a year
Training course
Engineering design technician (level 3)
Hours
7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Friday.
38 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Tuesday 1 July
Duration
3 years
Positions available
1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
* The successful candidate will join our dynamic and free-thinking engineering team responsible for designing new products and supporting the existing product range
* You will learn how to design for manufacture, by creating specifications such as 3D models and detailed 2D drawings, as well as supporting the manufacturing and assembly processes
Where you’ll work
Norbar Torque Tools Limited
Wildmere Road
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 3JU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Engineering design technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
* Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
* Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
* Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
* Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
* Select materials and parts.
* Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
* Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
* Provide feedback on engineering designs.
* Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
* Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
* Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
* Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
* Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
* Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
* Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
* Read, interpret and establish design intent.
* Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
* Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
* Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
* Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
* Option 1. Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
* Option 1. Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
* Option 1. Identify cable types and application.
* Option 1. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
* Option 2. Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
* Option 2. Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
* Option 2. Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
* Option 2. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
* Option 3. Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
* Option 3. Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
* Option 3. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
* Option 4. Produce general arrangements of piping design.
* Option 4. Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
* Option 4. Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
* Option 5. Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
* Option 5. Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
* Option 5. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.
* Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
* Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
* Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
* Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
* Select materials and parts.
* Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
* Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
* Provide feedback on engineering designs.
* Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
* Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
* Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
* Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
* Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
* Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
* Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
* Read, interpret and establish design intent.
* Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
* Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
* Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
* Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
Your training plan
Qualifications included:
* Engineering Design and Draughtsperson Apprenticeship
* Standard. Company Training Plan & Assessment
* Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering - Development Knowledge (1 day per week for 2 years at college)
Development Competence Qualification (workplace)
* Level 2 Functional Skills - Maths (If required)
* Level 2 Functional Skills - English (If required)
* End Point Assessment at the end of the apprenticeship
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* At least numerical grades inc Englis, Maths & Sci (grade 4-9 (C-A*))
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
* IT skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Problem solving skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Creative
* Motivated
* Willingness to learn
* Time Management
Other requirements
Under 18 (36.5 hour week) Over 18 (38.5 hour week) College will be in Bicester, Oxfordshire.