Summary
We are offering a 48-month level 4 Apprenticeship in Automation & Controls. As an Actemium Apprentice, we will help you learn to use specialist software to design industrial control systems. You will be learning and gaining levels of engineering skill and knowledge that will eventually see you performing as a key part of a project engineering team.
Wage
£22,500 a year
Training course
Automation and controls engineering technician (level 4)
Hours
Your working week will be Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5pm. Your will attend the Actemium Automation Office in Waterlooville 4 days per week, and college 1 day per week during term time. Outside of term time all 5 days will be spent in the office.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date
Monday 1 September 2025
Duration
4 years
Positions available
2
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
As an apprentice, you will work at a company and get hands-on experience. You will gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
You will build your skills over a 48-month period, starting in September 2025. This will include:
* Classroom training and workshops hosted offsite
* Learning current software standards, methods, and practices
* Learning to understand project delivery timelines and budgets
* Learning to develop key areas of control system software to meet the needs of the project using PLC’s, SCADA Systems, HMI’s & Industrial Networking
* Learning to design and test in accordance with agreed specifications and applicable standards
* Learning to prepare and review control system design, build and testing specifications
* Learn onsite commissioning and testing of control systems while adhering to site regulations
Where you’ll work
Wellington Gate
Silverthorne Way
Waterlooville
PO7 7XY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SOUTH HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE GROUP
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
Automation and Controls Engineering Technician Level 4.
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.
More training information
HND support in years 3 & 4 of the apprenticeship.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* Five GCSEs (including Maths, English & Science) (grade 5-9)
BTEC in:
* Engineering relate subject (grade Pass)
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
* Logical
* Team working
* Awareness of Health & Safety
Other requirements
Applicants must be able to get to and from our office based in Waterlooville, and the South Hampshire Collage Group's CEMAST campus. We will be holding an Apprentice selection day on the 8th of May 2025, therefore you will need to be able to attend the Waterlooville office on this date if you are selected for interview.