Apprentice - Mechanical Engineering
Date: 4 Mar 2025
Location: Oxford, GB
Job Function: Operations
Business Unit: NanoScience
As an Apprentice Manufacturing Technician at Oxford Instruments, you’ll rotate around all of our different Value Streams, learning about every step of manufacturing and testing our range of products. You'll also complete your HNC so will have good academic knowledge to complement the practical experience you build.
Vacancy Description
* In addition to day release at college, you'll complete a placement in each of our manufacturing cells, and will also spend time in New Product Introduction, Supply Chain, Service, Manufacturing Engineering.
* This will give you experience with all the different products we manufacture and send to customers around the world as well as an excellent introduction to all the possible career directions that Manufacturing and Operations might take you in with Oxford Instruments.
Entry Requirements
To qualify for this apprenticeship, you must either have a Level 3 engineering qualification or relevant STEM A Levels.
Skills Required
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Problem solving skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical thinking
* Team working
* Initiative
* Interest in Manufacturing & Engineering
* Time Management
* IT skills
* Administrative skills
* Non Judgemental
Personal Qualities
A keen interest in Manufacturing and Engineering.
Training to be Provided
* Level 4 Engineering Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship (1 day per week for 2 years at college)
* Company Training Plan & Assessment.
* Development Competence Qualification (workplace)
* End Point Assessment at the end of the apprenticeship
Future Prospects
We are looking for people with a genuine interest in manufacturing and engineering, and hope that your post-apprenticeship career with us will be in this area. This may be a role in our factory, or could be a move to a field service engineer role, or a related office-based position (such as supply chain or manufacturing engineering). We have previous apprentices who we have supported as they continued their academic qualifications to Bachelor's and Master's level.
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