Maintenance Apprentice
ORCHID ORTHOPEDIC SOLUTIONS LTD
Sheffield (S9 4WH)
Closes in 21 days (Sunday 17 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 24 July 2025
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Summary
We are recruiting for a Maintenance apprentice and welcome applications from individuals with a strong interest in understanding how things work and ideally some experience in design, assembly, or repair at a hobbyist level. The successful candidate will join our maintenance team and undertake a L3 Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician
- Wage
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£16,672.50 a year
- Training course
- Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday
8am- 4pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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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
- Gaining a full working knowledge in all aspects of maintenance, including learning to diagnose faults leading to repair as well as maintaining facilities process equipment
- Assisting and supporting with planned and reactive maintenance, as well as consult with internal stakeholders and subcontractors
- Complying with statutory, quality and organisational and health and safety regulations whilst carrying out manufacturing techniques
- Ensuring that plant and equipment perform to the required standard to facilitate production targets regarding Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost within a high value manufacturing environment
- Working on a broad range of activities including installation, testing, fault finding and the on-going planned maintenance of complex equipment
- Using and interpret a range of engineering data sources and supporting documentation
- Using lean techniques to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Where appropriate, supporting installation, testing and commissioning of a wide range of equipment
- Conducting complex fault diagnosis and repair on high technology engineered systems
- Maintaining mechanical/electrical equipment
- Minimising machinery downtime by conducting preventative planned maintenance
- Confirming testing and subsequent smooth hand over of equipment and plant
- Reading mechanical/electrical schematics
- Using basic hand tools
Where you'll work
Parkway Close Parkway Industrial Estate
Sheffield
S9 4WH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
Training course
Maintenance and operations engineering technician (level 3)
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Training schedule
The training will take place at The Sheffield College's Olive Grove Training Centre, 1 day per week
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Dual Science (grade 4+)
- English (grade 4+)
- Maths (grade 4+)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
Orchid Orthopedic Solutions is a world leader in the design and manufacture of implants to the global orthopaedic market
After this apprenticeship
- On successful completion of the Apprenticeship, there could be an opportunity of permanent employment
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
Stewart Parsisson
stewart.parsisson@sheffcol.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333683.
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Closes in 21 days (Sunday 17 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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