Apply to: Maintenance Technician Apprentice (Level 3) - MINI Plant Oxford
Apply From: 27/01/2025
Learning Provider
Delivered by BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
Employer
BMW (UK) MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Vacancy Description
The four-year programme is designed to enable you to experience different aspects of engineering and production technology including robotics, controls systems, machining, fluid power, electronics, welding and many more.
The first year of the program is purely in a learning environment where in addition to starting the academic requirements of your program, you will undertake a practical based engineering program which covers core engineering skills such as milling and turning, electrical and electronic circuits and control and fluid power, PLC’s etc.
In the second and third year you will continue with the academic requirements of the program alongside on-the-job training. Your on-the-job training will comprise of placements in a number of different areas of the business, with particular focus on the maintenance departments and may also involve placements at other BMW UK sites.
If at the end of your second year you meet your targeted grades you will have the opportunity to continue your fully funded academic training beyond level 3 onto an HNC in Engineering.
In your fourth year your on-the-job training will continue and will become more targeted to your final job role and where the job requires it you will start working a shift pattern to help better integrate you with your team. Our mentors are always available to provide individual support and guidance, enabling you to customise training to suit your skills.
Key Details
Vacancy Title
Maintenance Technician Apprentice (Level 3) - MINI Plant Oxford
Employer Description
Plant Oxford is the birthplace and heart of MINI production. Manufactured to individual customer specifications, hundreds of MINIs leave the plant’s assembly lines each day, off to meet new owners in more than 110 countries around the world. Three UK plants have a part to play in MINI production – Plant Hams Hall makes engines, Plant Swindon produces body pressings and sub-assemblies for MINI, and all this comes together at Plant Oxford with body shell production, paint, and final assembly.
Vacancy Location
Assembly & Service Division, Cowley, OX4 6NL
Wage Frequency
Custom
Number of Vacancies
12
Vacancy Reference Number
1000297612
Key Dates
Apply From
27/01/2025
Closing Date For Applications
2025-03-30 23:59:59
Interview Begin From
Possible Start Date
2025-09-08 00:00:00
Training
Training to be Provided
The BMW Group offers an enhanced level 3 apprenticeship commencing early September 2025. The four-year programme is designed to enable you to experience different aspects of Engineering and production technology including: robotics, controls systems, machining, fluid power, electronics, welding and many more.
During your time with us, you will be studying towards a Level 3 BTEC in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, provided by Birmingham Metropolitan College. The training that you receive during your apprenticeship involves studying modern, state-of-the-art automotive production technology as well as the latest innovations in manufacturing techniques.
As of 1st August 2020, the new Standard has replaced the previous Framework Apprenticeship.
Standards are occupation-focused; they are not qualification-led. The learning happens throughout the apprenticeship. And the apprentice is assessed at the end. There is a focus on key areas – knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSB).
Highlights of the new Standard:
There is a major shift from assessing to learning. Instead of continually assessing learners, assessors will be more like tutors or mentors – planning activities, sending feedback and supporting apprentices until the EPA (End Point Assessment). The EPAO (End Point Assessment Organisation) will then be responsible for assessing the apprentice.
Instead of assessing apprentices, on-programme learning will meet all the KSBs in the standard and prepare apprentices for their EPA. Mentors will need to check which assessment methods are used in the EPA and do mock tests and practice runs as the apprentice approaches the EPA.
The standards include a 20% off-the-job training requirement. This means providers and employers need to work together to plan learning activities outside of the apprentice's normal working duties. Off-the-job training is mandatory and will be audited, so it needs to be properly organised and recorded.
Apprentices are now graded according to their performance in the EPA. This means mentors will need to work closely with their learners.
Training will take place at Plant Mini, Oxford.
Skills Required
Communication skills, Attention to detail, Customer care skills, Problem solving skills, Logical thinking, Team working, Creativity, Initiative, Physical fitness.
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