An apprenticeship with Ricoh is a fantastic opportunity for you to gain practical, industry experience and achieve qualifications relevant to your chosen career path â all whilst earning a wage As an apprentice, you will develop your skills by working within a number of our key business areas specific to your programme and be supported by a designated mentor. A learning provider will also work with you to achieve academic qualifications and specialist skills which you can then transfer back into the workplace. During this 4-year programme, you will learn how to conduct planned and reactive engineering activities on a variety of automated equipment including packaging machinery, filling lines, digital ink manufacturing systems and stencil manufacturing in a fast-moving, highly automated workplace. You will learn how to safely trouble shoot, diagnose and rectify faults on machinery/production lines, and complete planned preventative maintenance procedures. You will gain skills including Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) program interrogation to aid in fault diagnosis, to identify and rectify issues with electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems. Other activities will include installation of equipment, facilities maintenance and supporting new business activities. This role will be based in our engineering and technical department, training to be a multi-skilled engineer with an electrical bias. This exciting programme is aimed at those seeking a career in the field of âhands onâ engineering and is very much aimed towards those who favour a more practical learning experience. Applicants should have achieved or be predicted to achieve 5x N5âs at Grade C and above, including English, Maths and a Science based subject.